FUTURE FOSSILS
ORGANIZER AND DATES
MassArt Art Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
January 23-April 13, 2025
TOUR
Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
May 24-September 7,2025
AVAILABLE
Fall 2025
Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia
January-May 2026
DESCRIPTION
Living now, in the Anthropocene, the 20 artists whose work comprise this exhibition make resonant objects that appear as if glimpsed in a review mirror, from some time in the future. They create a physical presence of what will be a disappeared past, conduits for assessment and critique of current culture in the form of fossils. Like Paleolithic relics, they are largely cast—in glass, metal, plaster and resins. The multi-media three-dimensional works in the exhibition can be organized into two loose divisions: Corporal/Effigies explore our bodily presence and Cultural/Fossils, reflect our technological present.
INVITED ARTISTS
Ai Weiwei (China/Portugal); Sanford Biggers (United States), Izaak Brandt (United Kingdom); Jedediah Caesar (United States, United Kingdom, Germany); Julian Charrière (France/Switzerland, Germany); Tania Pérez Córdova (Mexico); Liz Glynn (United States); Maureen Gruben (Canada); Matthew Angelo Harrison (United States); Hugh Hayden (United States); William Lamson (United States); James Lewis (United Kingdom, Austria); Jean-Luc Moulène (France); Reynier Leyva Novo (Cuba); Studio Drift (Netherlands); Do Ho Suh (Korea, United Kingdom); Clarissa Tossin (Brazil, United States); Marion Verboom (France); Nari Ward (Jamaica, United States); Rachel Whiteread (United Kingdom)
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Lisa Tung, executive director ltung@massart.edu, 617.879.7335
Ginger Duggan, curator ginger@curatorsquared.com, 407.227.2565
Judy Fox, curator judy@curatorsquared.com, 617.640.4037
