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Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds)

January 25 @ 10:00 am - September 14 @ 5:00 pm

Free – $18

The Clyfford Still Museum’s guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds), illuminates multiple competing desires held in constant tension within the Museum. Organized by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds, the exhibition draws deeply on CSM’s collections. The exhibition runs from January 25–September 14, 2025.

According to Reynolds, the collection testifies to Still’s ambitious attempt to keep his entire corpus intact. The commitment to the integrity of that body of work allows viewers to see not only the acclaimed masterpieces but also paintings made in painful transitions and others that bear the scars of time. Artworks change over time; their materials carry the stain of what conservators describe as inherent vice. Viewers see paintings that need to rest and heal, bearing marks that suggest, through their surfaces, condition, and textures, metaphors of viscera, bile, and wounds.

In the Museum’s six largest galleries, Reynolds’s exhibition asks viewers how they view healing over time, respond with their bodies to this corpus, and how they might approach Still’s achievements from a perspective that contends with his and their own senses of mortality—and with it, a shared desire to hold impermanence.

Katherine Simóne Reynolds is an artist, scholar, and curator who investigates emotional dialects and psychogeographies of Blackness within the Black Midwestern landscape. Her art physicalizes emotions and experiences through photo-based works, film, choreography, sculpture, and anxious writing practice. She has exhibited in national and international group and solo shows.

 

Reynolds chose several paintings with condition issues to highlight the impact of conservation throughout the exhibition. She also selected a collection of archival photographs, letters, and notes to demonstrate the themes and emotions throughout the exhibition and two original archival objects. The Museum expands on exhibition content and Reynolds’ curatorial process in its free mobile guide on Bloomberg Connects. CSM also offers visitors two takeaway resources in the exhibition’s first gallery, including Essays on Held Impermanence, a companion booklet to the exhibition, and Exploring Feelings and Art: A Family Guide.

Held Impermanence follows a chronological display of Still’s works in the Museum’s first three galleries.

Details

Start:
January 25 @ 10:00 am
End:
September 14 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free – $18
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Website:
https://clyffordstillmuseum.org/exhibitions/held-impermanence/

Organizer

Clyfford Still Museum
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720-354-4880
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Other

Artists
Clyfford Still
Curators
Katherine Simóne Reynolds
Artwork Medium
Painting

Venue

Clyfford Still Museum
1250 Bannock St.
Denver, CO 80204 United States
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720-354-4880
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