UPCOMING
THIS LAND: CONSIDERING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
THE CHURCH AT SAG HARBOR • JUNE 21 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
​​For This Land co-curator Donna De Salvo and Seph Rodney respond to the prompt: What is the American landscape? Together, we are assembling an exhibition that brings together works spanning two centuries in a transhistorical dialogue—beginning with the mythologizing of the landscape in the 19th century which is then challenged, reconsidered, and in some cases upended by contemporary artists making work dealing with issues of ecology, displacement, labor, grief, and identity. Through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, the show examines how land shapes—and is shaped by—our cultural narratives. Regional voices join national perspectives, with significant loans from major institutions on Long Island enriching the experience. This Land will be accompanied by concerts, performances, lectures, and tours, creating a dynamic cultural program that draws thousands of visitors.
PAST
In Barbara Navi’s pictorial universe, figures seem to emerge from a suspended reality, from an event of which only the trace remains. Each painting thus reinvents a fragment of reality through pictorial fictions, where forms remain caught in the vibration of their background. Her works construct a fragmented, anachronistic sense of time, in which multiple worlds coexist within a single image, like the overlapping frames of a cinematic dissolve. What unfolds here is not the memory of a vanished world, but the flickering presence of one barely glimpsed.
Get in the Game, co-curated with Katy Siegel and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, was presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025, and will thereafter travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (March 19 through August 23).
Get in the Game features artworks that respond to the stunning achievements of athletes, the deep sense of community found in sports and the ways in which sports shape our personal identity and shared culture. Audiences encounter artists and designers inspired by athletes fostering conversations about gender, race, and identity, offering new insights into the role of sports in advancing social change. The show features work by 70 artists, highlighting the breadth of artists that have taken sports as a critical subject. Taken together, the artworks and interpretative materials provide a new lens through which to consider why sports are so deeply influential in our lives.
“Material,” as a noun refers to matter, stuff, the elemental parts of a thing. But as an adjective connotes that a thing is significant, consequential, weighty. My use of the homonym is for more than intellectual showmanship. Both of the ways in which the term operates are particularly germane to the artists I’ve placed in this exhibition — Chakaia Booker, Leonardo Drew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock — artists who utilize particular materials to make objects that are of substance, that is to say, meaningful. Material will open at CPM Gallery in Baltimore on April 27th.
