Thursday, January 29
5:30-7:30 pm
Free for Everson Members
Join us for a special Members-only opening of the exhibition Federico Solmi: Adrift!
Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi’s multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent “video paintings” alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi’s irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures—from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk—into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi’s destabilizing world.
Enjoy Light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Please RSVP by Monday, January 26, 2026.
The Everson is supported by the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation; the General Operating Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Ship of Fools, 2024
soft pastels, white pen and ink,
gouache on canvas
122 x 237 in, 310 x 602 cm
The Indulgent Wanderers (detail), 2026
Acrylic, paint, mixed media on plexiglass, LED screen, video loop, 18 x 25½ x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist
