When: 
Thursday, January 9, 2020 (All day) - Sunday, February 9, 2020 (All day)
Where: 
Williams Center 108, & Gallery, 317 Hamilton Street, Easton
Presenter: 
Elizabeth Johnson
Price: 
Free

Passing Bittersweet: A Tribute to Ross Gay's The Book of Delights
January 9 - February 9, Williams Center Gallery

Passing Bittersweet honors Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, and the 25 artists who validate vulnerable, peripheral, and oft-overlooked treasures of common experience.

Guest curator, Elizabeth Johnson

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.

January gallery hours: Thurs to Sun, noon to 5 p.m., and by appointment

 

Sponsored by: 
Lafayette Art Galleries