Contact information
Name:
Michiko Okaya
Phone:
6103305361
Email:
artgallery@lafayette.edu
Link for More Information:
When:
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Williams Center 108, & Gallery, 317 Hamilton Street, Easton
Presenter:
Elizabeth Johnson
Price:
Free
Guest curator Elizabeth Johnson, will give a curator's talk about the exhibition, Passing Bittersweet
Passing Bittersweet honors Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, and the 25 artists who validate vulnerable, peripheral, and oft-overlooked treasures of common experience.
The talk is a joint presentation with the Arts Community of Easton, ACE
Passing Bittersweet features work that embodies ideas garnered from reading Lafayette alumnus Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights. His chatty, humorous, open-ended essays were culled from a year of daily asking himself: “What delights me?” Self-study and identity merge with the places, people, books, and routines that make Ross Gay happy. From inside what he calls “intense fleeting attentions,” Gay maintains a practice of acknowledging what is beautiful in the midst of the brutal.
The artists of Passing Bittersweet were chosen not because they illustrate Gay’s delights or process, but because their personal delights find aesthetic, physical ways to reframe negativity. The gathered artworks echo Gay’s conviction that numberless, small, positive human actions and transactions dispel what is dark, lonely, and unjust. Passing Bittersweet honors Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, and artists who validate vulnerable, peripheral, and oft-overlooked treasures of common experience.
Sponsored by:
Lafayette Art Galleries, and the Arts Community of Easton (ACE)