Posts tagged 2025
Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo

Imagine you're stepping into a bubble, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact or move around these objects that symbolize yourself.

Each painting is a glimpse into our inner world, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround ourselves with. Arranged in a deliberate, symmetrical way, these objects represent who we are. The exhibit's title is inspired by Virginia Woolf's idea of a "luminous halo"—a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end.

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Keren Cytter: Rose Garden

Cytter's short 2014 film explores the unsettling duality of American culture's ideals regarding being protectors of life and harbingers of death. This title is a reference to both the 1964 Joanne Greenburg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which deals with mental illness and the 1971-84 Marine Corp recruitment campaign “We Don’t Promise You A Rose Garden.” These references are meant to clue the viewer in that the seemingly ordinary setting hides a distorted reality. As the tension builds, multiple guns and disjointed conversations between characters escalate the sense that the calm is about to be shattered. A chaotic shooting spree unfolds against the backdrop of normal daily life. The chilling final scene serves as a grim conclusion addressing violence and its pervasive presence within American culture.


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SOMA

A group exhibition featuring the work of Jo Archuleta, Nehemiah Cisneros, Tommy Lomeli, Katherine Looney, October Sharify, Isaac Tapia and Cesar Velez exploring the supernatural and ethereal states of somatic responses. Guest curated by Yashi Davalos the exhibit is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, where soma was a fictional drug used to pacify civilians in a state of existential bliss and disassociation. Exploring the socialized perceptions of figures occupying space, Soma takes on confronting perceived utopia and dysmorphia in this exhibition.

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Will Higgins: Museum of Fabulosity

Included in this pop-up museum, made to resemble a small-town history museum, are 16 amazing stories, many so strange they may seem made-up. But they are not made up. They are all absolutely true. They are paired with amazing photographs and also fabulous objects that approximate long lost Indy icons — boxing gloves worn by Lou Thomas the night he killed Arne Andersson; the chair Cannonball Adderly tipped back in the night he discovered Wes Montgomery; James Snow’s Panama hat; Jinx Dawson’s skull; Max Emmerich’s spikes…”

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Jason Wesaw: Sovereign Spirits

Potawatomi (Turtle Clan) artist Jason Wesaw’s exhibit consisting of sculpture, drawings, prints, and installation is linked to the beliefs of his culture related to land, specifically the ground where Tube Factory now sits. This land has been part of Potawatomi lands at different times in history before the United States existed. For this reason, Wesaw used earth and materials from Terri Sisson Park on the Tube Factory campus to create some of the works in this fully commissioned show.

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Ben Hall: Trunk Rattle Sound Bath

Trunk Rattle Sound Bath merges ongoing areas of Ben Hall’s research into polyrhythm (the simultaneous use of two or more contrasting rhythms), sonic immersion, and ancestral resonance through the lens of embodied listening. The title draws from the cultural experience of low-end frequencies booming from car trunks — windows shaking with no discernible rhythm, the body absorbing it all. “Vibrational frequencies are in everything,” Hall says. “Our bodies. We are observing by vibration even when we shut down. Our nervous system is still there, thrumming.”

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Flore Laurentienne

Each performance is a chance to step into a world where music and nature intertwine—a rare and intimate experience.

Flore Laurentienne is an open window to the technicolor soundscapes of Mathieu David Gagnon – the Canadian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who shapes vast orchestral sound to interpret the rugged wilderness and waters of his native Québec. The namesake of an inventory documenting St. Lawrence Valley flora, Flore Laurentienne illumes the science and spirit of his surrounds through expansive string orchestrations melded with the textures and experimentation of early analogue synths.

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Steven Yazzie and Nancy Baric: The Nearness of Distance

“My Child, I will feed you, give you good health, and I will give you strength and courage.”

These are the opening words of Steven J. Yazzie’s 2015 video, Mountain Song, which appear scrawled across the inky blank screen in white letters. The work evokes that of an epic poem akin to Homer or Virgil, signifying a journey that lies before the one who watches and listens to it.

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Benjamin Berg:░▓ I Can See the Pixels ▓░

Computers do whatever you tell them to, even if you tell them to make a mistake.

There are some seemingly bad ideas behind Benjamin Berg's exhibition I Can See the Pixels. For starters, everything is created using the 1980s-era GIF image format, which is hated by today's computer programmers for its limited color palette and inefficient storage. Also, the source images are small and low-resolution. Worst of all, he forces his computer to use colors that are totally wrong, nowhere close to the ones it needs. What's wrong with this picture?

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