Being & Feeling (Alone, Together) March - Summer 2020 *Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and subsequent school and business closures, this exhibition was installed in the Lamont Gallery, but never opened to the public for in-person viewing. Artists in Being & Feeling (Alone, Together) explore embodiment, emotion, and being: how we make our way through the world, full of feeling, as solitary individuals and together with others. This is not an exhibition on emotions, but rather an experimental platform to contemplate the human condition via themes of longing, memory, regret, hope, ambivalence, and delight. How does it feel to encounter representations both familiar and strange? How do we bring empathic curiosity to our interactions with self and others? The work in Being & Feeling includes portrait sculpture, animation, painting, sound art, video, performance, and photography. The performances, events, and interventions give space for necessary solitude and the opportunity for joyful interconnection.
Participating Artists: Sachiko Akiyama Andrew Fish Lauren Gillette Katya Grokhovsky Stephanie Misa Tobias Rud Cheryle St. Onge Riikka Talvitie Jon Sakata + Democracy of Sound (exeter)/DOS(e)
Image credit: (top) Cheryle St. Onge, Untitled (Bubbles), 2019, Photograph (left) Sachiko Akiyama, Mountain/Sky, 2019, Wood, paint, resin.
Since this exhibition could not be enjoyed in person, a virtual version of this exhibition was created. Part of this virtual component included in-depth artist interviews. To learn more about these artists and see their works click on the artists’ names to be directed to their interview. Sachiko Akiyama, Andrew Fish, Lauren Gillette, Katya Grokhovsky, Stephanie Misa, Tobias Rud, Cheryle St. Onge, Riikka Talvitie, and Jon Sakata + Democracy of Sound (exeter)/DOS(e)