Join us for our next opening party on Friday, September 12 at 7:30PM to celebrate our two fall exhibitions: Roni Horn: Water, Water on the Wall, You’re the Fairest of Them All and Deborah Jack: the haunting of estuaries…an (after)math of confluence. And for the record, if there was a magic mirror IRL, it would definitely tell you to pull up for the opening.
Roni Horn: Water, Water on the Wall, You’re the Fairest of Them All presents works in a range of mediums – including sculpture, photography, drawing, and bookmaking – Horn’s solo exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the concept of water.
Deborah Jack: the haunting of estuaries…an (after)math of confluence includes a dynamic, six-channel video installation featuring tumbling waters and fauna from the shorelines of four geographically distant places: Maine, Louisiana, Brazil (Belém), and the island of St. Maarten.
General admission tickets include museum admission (doors at 7:30PM), DJ sets, and all the good party vibes. Drinks are available for purchase.
VIP tickets include first access to the exhibitions (doors at 6PM), curator remarks, and complimentary drinks from the designated VIP bar until 7:30PM. Additional drinks are available for purchase after 7:30PM.
About the Artists
Roni Horn (b. 1955, New York; lives and works in New York)
Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. In 1978, Horn graduated with a master’s degree in sculpture from Yale University. She presently lives in New York and Maine.
Deborah Jack (b. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands; lives and works in Cole Bay, St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ)
Deborah Jack is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video installation, photography, and text. Her practice engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change.
Jack received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. Her work has been featured in significant exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; the Houston Center of Photography, TX; and other renowned institutions. In 2021, a retrospective, Deborah Jack: 20 Years, was presented at Pen + Brush in New York, NY. Her work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Des Moines Art Center, IA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Jack was a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surf Point Foundation artist-in-residence. She is a recipient of a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2024), a Soros Arts Fellowship (2023), a Jersey City Artist Grant (2022), and a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2021). Jack is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
About the Curators
Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. Previously, she was the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, after nearly a decade as the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning. Her curatorial approach has been instrumental in bringing MCA Denver to where it stands today as one of the most important cultural institutions in Colorado. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over 40 exhibitions and authored or contributed to over a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists’ careers such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), which traveled to 3 other venues, as well as the first survey of Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. sculptures (2014), which traveled to 5 other venues around the country. Her most recent projects include a retrospective of artist Tara Donovan (2018), which traveled to the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, a focused presentation of never-before-seen photographs and ephemera by Francesca Woodman (2019), and co-organizing the group exhibition Cowboy (2023). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the co-Artistic Director for The Future is Present, the Harbinger is Home, the sixth iteration of the international art triennial Prospect New Orleans. Lash has organized a wide range of exhibitions including Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning/Rivalizando con el relámpago; Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues; the retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; and Swoon: Thalassa. In 2017, Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the widely acclaimed exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. From 2008 to 2014 Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Lash currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She holds art history degrees from Harvard University (B.A.), and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art (M.A.).
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