Winter 2023-24 Community News
Moon Setting into Fog Bank over Cape Cod Bay, Morning of the Total Lunar Eclipse. Barbara Bosworth (American, b. 1953).
Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
February 25–June 30, 2024
When photographer and 2022 resident Barbara Bosworth was a child growing up in Novelty, Ohio, she would go on nighttime walks with her father, and they would gaze up at the sky. This practice, which became a lifelong passion, inspired the photographs in this exhibition. Timed to coincide with the total solar eclipse visible in Cleveland on April 8, it explores Bosworth’s photographs of light—from eclipses, sunrises, and sunsets to the luminescent glow of fireflies and a flashlight.
Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
February 23–May 24, 2024
To honor Gallery Aferro’s twenty-year legacy, this exhibition brings together artworks by a select group of alumni from the Gallery’s fellowship programs, including 2023 resident Katrina Bello. With their life-affirming, transformative, and occasionally somber themes of family, loss, memory, and place, these artworks reinscribe the sense of unity associated with fellowship.
Leilehua Lanzilotti / inti figgis-vizueta
Darkness Sounding / TreePeople, Beverly Hills, CA
Jan 28th at 3pm & 5:37pm
In an afternoon and evening, back-to-back portraits of two rising stars of American composition: 2023 composer-in-residnece Leilihua Lanzilotti and inti figgis-vizueta. Their works grapple with chance, with sonic space and physical space, with relationships between performers and between each performer and themselves. These are works that create shimmering collaborative fields of sound while at the same time centering individual agency for performers and audiences.
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: Air Tales
Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
January 6–February 10, 2024
Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition with 2021 resident Nishiki Sugawara-Beda. The artist’s process requires “prior mental preparation to achieve a meditative quality in her paintings.” The enigmatic series of KuroKuroShiro (Black, Black, White) captivates the viewer by the interplay of the washes of light ink and bold brushwork alluding to the old masters of monochrome ink painting. Her inspiration is Zen artist and monk Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) recognized for a quick and evocative manner to express his religious views and playful attitude.
Friday Night Live! Michigan Philharmonic: Miniature Masterpieces
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Friday, Jan 19, 2024
This annual Michigan Philharmonic Miniature Masterpieces program highlights works for the keyboard, including harpsichord and organ. The program centers around a dramatic J. S. Bach concerto and two pieces from 2022 resident Shruthi Rajasekar, a contemporary Indian American composer and vocalist who explores music that draws from both Carnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical traditions.
