personal, political, mysterious

JUNE 7 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

This group exhibition explores the confines of the “personal, political, and mysterious” through a selection of works by 24 contemporary artists utilizing photography, painting, sculpture, video, and installation.The exhibition’s title refers to a 2008 New York Times article written by its co-chief art critic Roberta Smith stating that Robert Gober “stands at the forefront of a generation that emerged in the 1980s and devised new ways to fuse the personal and the political, the accessible and the mysterious.” Emanating from Gober’s Untitled, 2012 the installation incorporates reoccurring motifs of commonplace objects, portraiture, and language to investigate themes such as autonomy, sexuality, race, and memory. Artists include Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Grossman, Jonathan Owen, Theaster Gates, Jim Hodges, Roni Horn, Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, Jennifer Dalton, Brian Jungen, Ben Durham, Glenn Ligon, Awol Erizku, Donald Moffett, David Hammons, Tom Molloy, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sissi Farassat, Frank Selby, Ewan Gibbs, Robert Therrien, Joseph Grigely, and Mickalene Thomas.