Exhibitions

Me Us Them weaves together fifteen years of work by New York-based artist Oliver Herring (b. 1964). His ever-expanding body of work explores many media, from sculpture and performance to photography and video. The exhibition includes several of Herring’s early knit-Mylar objects, experimental videos, complex... See more 

Visionary illustrations by William Blake on loan from Skidmore College’s Special Collections, Lucy Scribner Library, are joined by a new series of Blake-inspired works by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. William Blake (1757-1827), poet and artist, may have been our first urban avant-garde poet. In a voice that is by turns... See more 

Over the past decade, excavations and new research at two Maya sites, Bonampak and San Bartolo, located in present-day Mexico and Guatemala, have radically revised and enriched our understanding of Maya kingship and culture. The interdisciplinary work of 1997 Skidmore graduate Heather Hurst has played a central role... See more 

For more than a decade, Dario Robleto has been composing a love song to America, an extended meditation on longing and loss, spirituality and healing. Both elegiac and redemptive, his sculptures and assemblages reflect an engagement with an impressive range of sources, from popular music and military history to the... See more 

Amy Sillman is an uncompromising painter. The Brooklyn-based artist’s widely influential body of work has built on familiar formats such as landscape, portraiture, abstraction, and caricature, only to move past them, pushing these motifs and categories into new places. Since August 2006, Sillman has engaged a very... See more 

Jessica Rylan is a sound artist, electronic musician, and instrument maker who lives and works in the Boston area. Her various installation and performance projects often feature analog modular synthesizers of her own design and construction. Performing nationally and internationally as Can’t, her one-woman... See more 

A painted chair, a cupboard, a lacy dress, a teacup—such objects of daily life bear witness to the events and interactions that take shape around them, acting as archives of the past. Things Remain brings together works by a select group of contemporary artists who seek to validate this notion, while also... See more 

Born in Philadelphia in 1953, artist Dean Snyder grew up on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and spent family summer holidays on the boardwalks and arcades of the New Jersey shore—where the bright lights and seductive displays of the carnival sideshows left lasting memories. The tidal push-pull between... See more 

Joseph Grigely creates works that explore the failures, idiosyncrasies, and ruptures of language and communication. An artist who has been deaf since childhood, Grigely first became known in the early 1990s for a series of works called Conversations with the Hearing. Displayed as small table-top tableaux, intimate... See more 

Sounds are made: a glass drops to the floor, muscles push air from one's body to create the voice, feet thud on the pavement. Whether jarring or soothing, dissonant or melodic, sound results from action. The artists in Smack use distinct actions, like scratching, stomping, or dragging, to explore specific sounds.... See more