Reno 89501
United States
April Bey: Altantica, The Gilda Region
August 26, 2023–February 4, 2024
In Atlantica, The Gilda Region, April Bey creates an immersive installation that taps into Black Americans’ historical embrace of space travel and extraterrestrial visioning—a cultural movement dating back to the late 1960s and later termed Afrofuturism. Through this Afrofuturist lens, Bey reflects on subjects such as queerness, feminism, and internet culture in vibrant tableaux that combine plants, video, music, photography, and oversized mixed-media paintings and textiles. Organized by the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA.
Guillermo Bert: The Journey
August 26, 2023–February 4, 2024
Guillermo Bert makes artworks that explore the endurance of immigrants. Rooted in his personal story, his primary focus has been to explore the experiences of people who enter the United States along the US/Mexico border. Bert’s artworks draw metaphorical relationships between the journeys of migrants, harsh and empty desert landscapes, and the commodification and objectification of American values. This mid-career survey includes a variety of traditional and contemporary media that are drawn from the entirety of Bert’s career, as well as new works produced exclusively for this exhibition.
Elisheva Biernoff: Reservoirs of Time
October 21, 2023–April 21, 2024
This exhibition features the small-format paintings of San Francisco-based artist Elisheva Biernoff, which are inspired by enigmatic photographs she encounters and collects. The photographs she gravitates towards are outtakes—photographs with double exposures, light leaks, odd cropping, and other errors. In rendering them in great detail, at the same scale as the original photographs, she explores the role of mischance, and reflects on the anonymous traces of lives and places that are for the most part unknown to her.
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless
October 7, 2023–June 2, 2024
Speechless features the multi-disciplinary work of Cannupa Hanska Luger, an artist who is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European descent. Working with a wide array of media—video, performance, ceramic, textiles, found materials, and most recently, paper—Luger activates cultural and social awareness regarding Indigenous experience through his large-scale installations.
