天下无难事 约瑟夫·利亚特拉著
September 13 – December 9, 2022
乔治·西格尔画廊
The 十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学美术馆 will present the exhibition 天下无难事 约瑟夫·利亚特拉著 this fall. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition brings together new commissions and recent works that explore the need for connection, 快乐, and agency within oppressive systems. Exhibited alongside photography by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and religious art by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) from the 大学美术馆’ collection, Liatela invokes a range of stories to assess what it means to move together, 记得在一起, 一起修复. The exhibition will be on view at the 大学美术馆’ newly reconfigured flagship exhibition space, 乔治·西格尔画廊.
Liatela correlates spaces of communal experience – churches, 医疗机构, and clubs – where promises of salvation and healing commingle in proximity to loss and grief. By uniting these different spaces through a range of mediums and interdisciplinary analysis, Liatela reveals how these disparate environments hold similar contradictions that impact the way we perceive ourselves and each other. 在展览中, the search for absolution in a Church, the potential for restoration through medical care, and the rapturous escapism of the club become entangled. Liatela also unites ideologies of the afterlife – the veneration of patron saints, possibilities of dancing with the ghosts of loved ones, and the lingering specter of death in hospitals – to further pronounce their similarities while making their differences visible as well.
Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, Curator and Exhibition Coordinator
展览资源
Opening Reception and Live Performance
- Thursday, September 22, 4 – 7 p.m.
- We celebrated the opening of 天下无难事 现场表演 行动就是记忆. Remarks by Director Megan C. Austin, Curator Jesse Bandler Firestone, and artist Joseph Liatela.
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Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. 使用性能, 雕塑, 和视频, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, 纪念, trans and queer subjectivities, 体现, 集体运动.
Liatela earned a BFA with distinction from California 艺术学院 and an MFA from 哥伦比亚大学. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, 佛蒙特工作室中心, 班夫中心, California 艺术学院, 哥伦比亚大学, 艺术家格兰特, and was a finalist for the prestigious Found Work Artist Prize in 2021. His work has been shown at Denniston Hill, Human Resources Los Angeles, 蒙茅斯博物馆, 犹太博物馆, 莱斯利-洛曼博物馆, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, PS122画廊, 和Proyecto Galería CDMX, 在许多其他方面.
Liatela’s writing has been published by the Leslie-Lohman Museum Journal and Oxford 大学 Press. His work has been featured in Artsy, 莱斯利-洛曼博物馆 Journal, 旧金山现代艺术博物馆的开放空间, 紧急指数, 艺术新闻, Hyperallergic, 登载于, 和艺术 & 教育. Current and upcoming exhibitions include Cultivating at Marli Matsumoto in São Paulo, From Confucious to Christ at Yeh Gallery in Queens, Last Night at Hot Bed Gallery in Philadelphia, The 哥伦比亚大学 Summer Exhibition at ChaShaMa in New York City, a group exhibition at Half Gallery in New York City, and a solo exhibition at 十大博彩推荐排名州立 大学 in the Fall of 2022. For 2022-2023 he will be an artist in residence at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY.