Summoning

November 23, 2024 - January 25, 2025

Artists Reception December 7 | 5-7PM

Work by: Dawoud Bey, Sydney Cain, Jonathan Calm, Rodney Ewing, Rupert Garcia, Doug Hall, Oliver Lee Jackson, Hung Liu, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Robert Minervini, Tracey Moffatt, Viviana Paredes, Rose Piper, & Lava Thomas.

Spanning a variety of media – painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture – this exhibition highlights how art is used as a tool for evocation. The artists included commune with past and future, often summoning spirits to the present through their powerful work.

Press Release

Selected Works

Oliver Lee Jackson – No. 10, 2015 (8.21.15)
2015, oil-based paints, mixed media on panel, 95 x 72 inches

Jonathan Calm – Double Vision (Underground)
2020, archival pigment print, 40 x 50 inches, edition of 6

Sydney Cain – OTA (PROCESSION I)
2024, acrylic, magnetite, steel, pigment, soft pastel on paper, 74 x 72 inches [SOLD]

Rodney Ewing – Within / Without
2020, hand colored silkscreen on vintage ledger paper, 38 ¾ x 37 ¼ inches

Lava Thomas – I Walk in the Light of My Ancestors’ Prayers
2024, altered tambourines, pyrographic calligraphy on metallic, leather, mirrored acrylic disks, grosgrain ribbon, 59 1/2 x 115 1/4 x 2 inches

Dawoud Bey – Tall Grass, Fence, and Cabin
2019, gelatin silver print, 49 1/4 x 60 inches, edition of 6

Dawoud Bey – In This Here Place: Mississippi River and Trees
2019, gelatin silver print, 49 1/4 x 60 inches (framed), edition of 6

Rodney Ewing – Home
2018, recycled wood on panel (diptych), 54 x 24 1/2 x 2 inches

Hung Liu – Altarpiece
1992, oil on canvas in wood frame, box with silk shoes, imitation jade flowers, 25 x 15 x 8 inches

Rupert Garcia – La Xochitl IV Tapestry
2003, hand painted tapestry, 82 x 82 inches, edition of 5

Robert Minervini – Monumental
2016, acrylic on canvas, 68 x 72 inches

Tracey Moffatt – Invocations (7)
2000, photo-silkscreen printed in ultra violet inks, 42 x 39 inches

Tracey Moffatt – Invocations 11
2000, photo-silkscreen printed in ultra violet inks, 57 3/4 x 48 inches

Doug Hall – Olompali Valley Oak I
2023, pigment print, 48 1/2 x 61 inches (framed), edition of 6

Amalia Mesa-Bains – Sleeping Nun in Venus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, The Place of the Giant Women
1997-2024, Jacquard tapestry, 57 x 70 inches, edition of 3