Thursday, June 8-Friday, September 1, 2023

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Thursday, June 8, 5-7 PM
OPENING RECEPTION
Moss Arts Center Grand Lobby
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Tuesday, August 15, 22, and 29, 12 PM
SUMMER GALLERY TOURS
Meet in the Moss Arts Center Grand Lobby
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Thursday, August 24, 5-7 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION
Moss Arts Center Grand Lobby
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Aldrich+Weissberger  |  Peggy Chiang  |  Cannupa Hanska Luger  |  Sally Mann  |  Erin Jane Nelson  |  Alexis Rockman  |  Dianna Settles  |  Mierle Laderman Ukeles

I'll be your mirror... is an invitation to reflect on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the self, community, and land and explore the complex legacy of human impact, often unseen and unnoticed through the daily lens.

Through a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and performance, the artists in I'll be your mirror... ask viewers to contemplate the hidden relationships between the self, community, and land. The exhibition brings attention to considering one's impact on the world and embracing a more sustainable and equitable future.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles' "Touch Sanitation Performance," 1979-1980. A white woman with long strawberry blonde hair shakes the hand of a middle aged white man in an orange hat and safety vest. The stand in a landfill, a white garbage truck and piles of trash visible behind them.
Cannupa Hanska Luger's "Mirror Shield Project," 2016. A large group of people stand in a field somewhere that snow and ice is melting, a snow-covered hill and field visible behind them. They all wear cold-weather attire and hold floor-length mirrors fixed to natural wood backers and point the mirrors towards the sun, away from the melting snow.
Peggy Chiang's "Invitation to travel," 2022. A green cardboard box sits on a grey floor, the top flaps open. A black, shiny, plexiglass material fits just inside the opening. On the plexiglass sits a small, white, burning tealight.
Dianna Settles' "The warm and hot baths' insistence on our porosity: confine your measure to the boundary of the sky (water is the only one who knows what has always been)," 2021. This acrylic and colored pencil drawing shows several women at a public bath and spa. In the foreground, three women of varying ages sit at the edge of a pool, nude, their feet in the water. In the background, women in two-piece bathing suits give exfoliating treatments to two nude women on pink tables.
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Header Image:
Erin Jane Nelson
Little Armoured One, 2020
Pigment print, found photograph, lichen, sunflower husk, metal, and EcoPoxy on glazed stoneware
33 x 26 x 1 6/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and DOCUMENT Gallery

Carousel Images:
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80
July 24, 1979-June 26, 1980
Citywide performance with 8,500 sanitation works across all 59 New York City sanitation districts
May 15, 1980
Sweep 10, Queens District 14
Photo by Vincent Russo
Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

Cannupa Hanska Luger
Mirror Shield Project, 2016
Performed on November 8, 2016, at Oceti Sakowin Camp, Standing Rock, North Dakota
Image by Rob Wilson Photography
Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery

Peggy Chiang
Invitation to travel, 2022
Cardboard, Styrofoam, preserved plants, steel, gravel, dirt, plexiglass, wood, chalk, acrylic paint, aluminum can, and glazed porcelain
16 x 12 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Dianna Settles
The warm and hot baths' insistence on our porosity: confine your measure to the boundary of the sky (water is the only one who knows what has always been), 2021
Acrylic and colored pencil
32 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist and March Gallery