In the 1980s,
Juan Cruz began investigating his past as a method to understand where the
tribal and the modern world collide. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz briefly attended
the Art Students League in 1975 and in 1995 he graduated from Syracuse University’s
School of Visual and Performing Arts. This career-spanning exhibition focuses
on Cruz’s work as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and community activist.
TEMPO features two new site-specific public artworks commissioned for the Everson’s Community Plaza in downtown Syracuse, inspired by the Everson’s I.M. Pei-designed building. TEMPO refers to the temporary and time-based nature of the works, which include performance, sound, and video installations. In the summer, the Everson will announce two artists selected for this exciting new project.
Named after Yoko Ono’s 1963 Earth Piece, a score that invites the reader to “Listen to the sound of the earth turning,” this exhibition examines artists who have combined clay and ceramics with performance art, photography, conceptual art, and even land art. Far from being used as “just another material,” clay comes freighted with millennia of associations with material culture. Earth Piece highlights the work of well-known figures from the art world, as well as lesser-known artists whose work shaped the field of ceramics into a vibrant discipline that is equally at home in both domestic and contemporary spheres.
The culmination of the Everson Museum of Art’s 50th anniversary year, Yoko Ono: Remembering The Future situates the groundbreaking conceptual artist’s landmark 1971 exhibition at the Everson (her first solo museum show) within her enduring artistic practice devoted to fostering and healing human connections, often by exposing social and political injustices. The survey spans more than four decades, bringing together significant works in film, music, performance, and visual art that are presented both inside and outside the museum building. From germinal early works to recent, large-scale installations, Remembering The Future traces Ono’s experimental approach to engaging audiences as a means of contributing to a more accepting and peaceful world.
Late Night Space Force features new work by Adam Milner that draws upon emerging NASA technology, the aesthetics of science and history museums, and the Moon’s presence in our daily lives through popular culture as a way to examine the Moon as a central figure in modern life. From late night talk shows to government and corporate space agencies, the Moon’s presence in our cultural landscape is the underpinning for Milner’s investigation into how our romantic attachment to the Moon so quickly slips into physical conquest.