March 31, 2022

We are pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic.

On view: March 31, 2022 - May 25, 2022.

Opening Reception: Thursday March 31, 2022. Refreshments will be served!

The exhibition includes work that addresses the police murders that gave rise to the “I Can’t Breathe” slogans of the movement for racial justice, makes visible the life-taking and life-remaking force of the COVID-19 pandemic, and grapples with the white nationalist streaks fueled by fear of demographic suffocation. Exhibiting artists consider the climate and social emergencies that afflict US society, and look for available peace in our new age of perpetual biopolitical chaos. For these artists, the ‘last gasps’ of a dying order starkly expose the either/or that stands before us: either we breathe or we die. In photography, video, printmaking, and other media, the artists highlight a host of pressing subjects critically and with compassion, to help us make sense of the interlocked crises of the unfolding present.

The exhibition grows out of the book of the same title LASTGASPISM.

Exhibiting artists: Design Studio for Social Intervention, Anne Basting/TimeSlips, Cheryl Derricotte, Erin Genia, Alicia Grullon, Pato Hebert, Damon Locks, Karthik Pandian, Anthony Romero, Writers Room.

Curators: Anthony Romero, Daniel Tucker, Dan S. Wang.