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Ucross Exhibit Explores Approaches to Time
Ucross, the acclaimed artist residency program and art gallery in northern Wyoming, recently announced there will be an opening reception for “We Have All the Time in the World,” on Friday, July 26, at 6 p.m. This exhibit is the third and final installation of a three-part gallery series celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Guest curator Josh Kun has selected 15 fellow Ucross alumni to be featured in the latest show, an interdisciplinary exhibition with a focus on auditory art.
Josh Kun, guest curator for Ucross Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, “We Have All the Time in the World.” (Courtesy of Ucross)
“Artists working across music and sound have long been instrumental to the Ucross residency program,” Kun said. “It has been a personal honor to shape an exhibition that draws from their extraordinary work. The artist lineup mixes established musicians, photographers and visual artists with emerging artists who are breaking new ground in the way sound and music are treated as artistic languages.”
The selections feature artists ranging from Grammy Award-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington to poet and musician JJJJJerome Ellis, improviser and interdisciplinary artist Bonnie Han Jones and composer Jessica Pavone. And sometimes, the omission of audio makes just as much of an impact as sound.
“Some of the noisiest pieces in‘We Have All the Time in the World’ are the ones without sound,” Kun said.
Border wall with overlay:
“Barda en Perspectiva,” Guillermo Galindo, photograph by Richard Misrach (Courtesy of Ucross)
Visual artist Rhona Bitner captures photographs of spaces where music is performed, Matana Roberts forays into collage and Jason Moran melds 43 years of piano with pigment and paper.
The complete roundup of Ucross alumni-artists are: Rhona Bitner of New York City and Paris, France; Terri Lyne Carrington of Woburn, Massachusetts; Andrew Raffo Dewar of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; JJJJJerome Ellis of Norfolk, Virginia; Guillermo Galindo of Oakland, California; Michael Harrison of Yonkers, New York; Bonnie Han Jones of Baltimore, Maryland, and Providence, Rhode Island; Regina Martinez of Chicago, Illinois; Nicole Mitchell of Charlottesville, Virginia; Jason Moran of New York, New York; Jessica Pavone of Astoria, New York; Jerónimo Reyes-Retana of Boulder, Colorado; Matana Roberts of La Jolla, California; Ken Ueno of Lawndale, California; and Du Yun of New York, New York. The work of collaborative artists Yuan Liu of Brooklyn, New York; Floyd Webb of Chicago, Illinois; and Habib Azar of New York, New York are essential to the inclusions of Mitchell, Pavone and Yun, respectively.
As a curator, Kun’s projects and exhibitions have appeared with the Los Angeles Public Library, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the GRAMMY Museum, and the Getty Foundation. As an artist, his work has appeared with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Prospect New Orleans and Steve Turner Gallery in LA. Kun is the recipient of a Berlin Prize and an American Book Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016. Kun is vice provost for the arts at University of Southern California (USC) and professor and chair in cross-cultural communication at the USC Annenberg School. His books include “Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America;” “Songs in the Key of Los Angeles;” “Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez” and several others.
Ucross Art Gallery and Café, located at 30 Big Red Lane in Ucross, are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Admission is free, thanks in part to support from the Arete Design Group and the Wyoming Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Legislature.
Learn more at ucross.org.
