PANEL DISCUSSION
5 PM - 6 PM
General Tickets: $10
Member Tickets: Free, RSVP Required
*Space is limited please reserve in advance
OPENING RECEPTION
6 PM - 7:30 PM
Free, No RSVP Required
The Church invites you to a very special opening of our Summer Exhibition THIS LAND: Considering the American Landscape. Sit down with our Guest curators Donna De Salvo and Seph Rodney, as they discuss their curatorial perspectives of the show. Joined in conversation by The Church’s Executive Director Sheri Pasquarella, the group will explore the impetus for the show and their responses to the query “What is the American Landscape?” Learn how they navigated their curatorial decisions, the major themes of the show, and how these themes are explored through the works of art in the exhibition. Following the discussion, guests will be led upstairs to the main gallery for the first look at the summer Exhibition.
De Salvo and Rodney have conceived of a transhistorical exhibition that explores artistic responses to the American landscape both at its inception and today, reflecting our nation’s 250th anniversary.
Featured Artists include: Jeremy Dennis, Thomas Doughty, Asher B. Durand, Cristina Fernandez, April Gornik, Leslie Hewitt, Sky Hopinka, An-My Lê, Zoe Leonard, Richard Mayhew, Charles Henry Miller, Kent Monkman, Mary Nimmo Moran, Thomas Moran, Arcmanoro Niles, James Perkins, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Lucy Raven, Anastasia Samoylova, Meg Webster, selections from Hudson River School paintings and works on paper related to Dan Flavin, and a contribution from the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
With over thirty years of curatorial expertise and senior leadership to museums across the United States and United Kingdom, Donna De Salvo brings an artist-centered approach to our exhibition. Currently the Senior Adjunct Curator at Dia Art Foundation De Salvo also spent fifteen years at the Whitney Musuem of American Art as its inaugural Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs. Her invaluable experience adds a very special dimension to This Land, which we are grateful to share with our audience.
A former senior art critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic and regular contributor to The New York Times among other publications, Seph Rodney, PhD adds another special dimension to This Land, by incorporating an understanding of the viewer and their approach to art. In addition to writing for The New York Times, CNN, NBC, The Guardian, Art Forum, and Art in America, Rodney is also the author of The Personalization of the Museum Visit (Routledge, 2019). Currently at work on a book about learning how to look at art, tentatively titled A Certain Minor Light, the writer and educator joins us with a unique perspective that centers on our visitors and their experience, which we are excited to share with our community.
Join us for a very special evening and celebrate the start of the summer season. Space is limited for the discussion, please RSVP in advance.
DONNA DE SALVO
Photo by Gabriela Herman
SEPH RODNEY
Photo by Magnani