Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]

Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.  […]

Wallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground […]

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein from a 1931 essay, included later in Ideas and Opinions and quoted by Eleanor Heartney in Unseen Layers catalogue.   Ronald Feldman Gallery presents a series of […]

Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present, Twins, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Jinie Park. In her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Park paints thinly layered, translucent assemblages of linen, muslin, and hand-woven fiber to explore materiality and activated space.