CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

On view through April 18, 2021
Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson’s collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

On view through May 2, 2021

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum’s collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimú, and Chavin cultures.

On View through May 2, 2021

Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious educational initiative supporting student achievement in the arts. Every year, students across the country in grades 7-12 are invited to enter original works of art in regional competitions, which are then judged by professional artists, educators, and photographers. The judges award first place (Gold Key), second place (Silver Key), honorable mentions, and special award honorees. Gold Key winners move on to compete at the national level, and a selection of Silver Key winners are typically displayed at the Everson. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition moved online.

On view through June 20, 2021

Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison examines how knowledge is constructed and legitimized through work that includes video, sculpture, installation, and sound. Sensus Plenior is a study of language, gesture, and movement through the practice of pantomime in the Black church. The video features Reverend Susan Webb, leader of the Master Mime Ministry of Harlem, engaging in a sequence of choreographed gestures. By transforming the language of gospel songs into physical movements, Webb uses her body to channel the meaning and mystery of the Word.

Presented in conjunction with Urban Video Project’s exhibition Steffani Jemison: Figure 8, which runs from April 15 through June 5, 2021.

On view through July 4, 2021

On view through August 1, 2021

On view through August 22, 2021

In celebration of the Everson’s 50th anniversary, the museum commissioned Thomas Spoerndle to create a site-specific wall drawing. Spoerndle was selected because of his interest in scale, geometric abstraction, and the ways his work creates a dialogue with artworks in the Museum’s Collection as well as architect I.M. Pei’s museum design.

In celebration of the Everson’s 50th anniversary, the Museum commissioned Elliott Katz to create site-specific installations for the spaces that architect I.M. Pei designed as planters. Katz was selected for the commission because of how his work engages with the significance of materials and questions how we form relationships to those materials, as well as his interest in contrasting the Modernist belief in controlling nature against the Wabi sabi belief in the fundamental uncontrollability of nature. Using natural and synthetic materials, photography, scale, and illusion, Katz’s serious and playful installations transform familiar objects into curious mysteries that defy simple categorization and ignite our imagination.