Traveling Exhibits

Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait

An intimate look at the friendship between artists Nicholas Taylor and Jean-Michel Basquiat born under the pulsating lights of New York’s famed Mudd Club in lower Manhattan in January 1979. These documentary photographs of Basquiat are being exhibited and traveled for the first time in their entirety. The accompanying text panels, written by Taylor, serve to contextualize the historical significance of Basquiat in the early 1980s.

 

The Exquisite Corpse in Glass: Contemporary Figurative Flameworkers Play a Surrealist’s Game

In this exhibition, eleven internationally recognized figurative glass sculptors are invited to “play” a modern version of the Surrealist game, the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse.) In the original game, the players would write words on bits of paper, which would then be drawn at random to create nonsensical (or amazingly profound!) sentences.