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
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