University Art Museum
Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair
August 4 - December 11, 2021
Artists, Public Programs, About

Michelle Young Lee, Have a Nice Day, 2021, vinyl print, aluminum, neon, glass tubes, generator box, generator wire, bulb supports, 42 x 58 inches, courtesy of the artist; Here Kitty-Kitty, 2021, neon, glass tubes, generator box, generator wire, bulb supports, 24 x 18 1/8 inches, courtesy of the artist; I am the Signal; You are the Wave, 2021, neon, glass tubes, generator box, generator wire, bulb supports, 72 x 25 inches, courtesy of the artist [image description: Three illuminated neon signs: a cat, a print of a plastic bag with the words 'thank you' in red neon and a hand with red nails holding a rose. The wiring and breaker boxes powering the neon are visible.]

Odessa Staub, A sort of dialysis of the libido, 2021, wood, velvet, felt, rubber pond liner, plastic food storage container, acrylic tubing, shark bite coupling connectors, filter media, water pump, soil, cattails, water, 80 x 60 x 66 inches, courtesy of the artist and SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY; Panteha Abareshi, For Parts, 2020, video, 4:33; color, sound, courtesy of the artist [image description: A moonshaped pool on a quilted rug with cattail plants sproating forth as well as clear tubing. The sculpture is illuminated by pink LED light. In the background there is a projection on a wall of a person in six frames and a line drawing of a medical support device.]

Sanford Biggers, Hip Hop Ni Sasagu (In Fond Memory of Hip Hop), 2004, video, 5:55; color, sound, courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen [image description: A video projection of three people in a temple sitting in meditation.]

Installation view [image description: The first floor has a projection of a temple, music stand sculpures, works on paper, and a flatscreen playing a video work. The second floor has works on paper, magnetic photo prints and a weaving.]

Scott Keightly, Rhapsody No. 1 Variation, 2021, UV print on Manhasset music stand, finials, knobs, LED stand lights; Scott Keightly, Insomnia, 2021, UV print on Manhasset music stand, finials, knobs, LED stand lights; Sanford Biggers, Hip Hop Ni Sasagu (In Fond Memory of Hip Hop), 2004, video, 5:55; color, sound, courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen [image description: In the foreground there are four music stand sculptures with prints, filials and stand lights attached to them. In the background there is a projection of a tree branch with rain droplets.]

Panteha Abareshi, For Parts (installation view), 2020, video, 4:33; color, sound, courtesy of the artist [image description: A flatscreen television with a video of a woman in white touching two fingers to their arm. Yellow text in the upper-right hand corner of the screen reads "RADIUS + ULNA"]

Installation view [image description: Two visitors on the second floor of the exhibition looking at works on paper by Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski. There's a Sanford Bigger's projection on the first floor of a pensive looking person's face.]

Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Rainbow Seance, 2019, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, airbrush, paint marker, and glow-in-the-dark sculpt on paper, courtesy of the Hott Collection, New York; A Ghost Was a Body Once (Slumber Party), 2020, gouache, watercolor, collage, colored pencil, and airbrush on paper, collection of Gardy St. Fleur [image description: On the left is a framed painting on paper of four figures covered in eye patterns. There are rainbows and cloudlike shapes framing them. On the right there is framed painting on paper of ghosts emerging from the stomach of a figure.]

Tanja Hollander, Ephemera Project, 2020-21, 16 photo printed magnets, courtesy of the artist [image description: A long grey band on a white wall with 16 prints containing grids of scanned objects on colored backgrounds. ]

Tanja Hollander, Ephemera Project, 2020-21, 16 photo printed magnets, courtesy of the artist; Diedrick Brackens, fire makes some dragons, 2020, woven cotton and acrylic yarn, Hudgins Family Collection, New York [image description: In the foreground there is a long grey band on a white wall with 16 prints containing grids of scanned objects on colored backgrounds. In the background there's a weaving with an abstract figure holding up another with a brickwork patterned background.]

Installation view [image description: On the first floor there are geometrics works on paper, a flatscreen with a video work and a gold framed work on paper with two figures flanking a black square viod. The second floor has magnetic photo prints on a grey band, a weaving and two music stand sculptures.]

Scott Keightley, La fille aux cheveux de lin, 2021, UV print on Manhasset music stand, finials, knobs, LED stand lights, courtesy of the artist; Scott Keightley, Rhapsody No. 1, 2021, UV print on Manhasset music stand, finials, knobs, LED stand lights, courtesy of the artist; Jeffrey Gibson, Nothing is Eternal, 2020, video, 18:14; color, sound, courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. [image description: In the foreground there are two music stand sculptures and in the background there is a projection of a person in a corset with the US flag overlayed on them.]

Scott Keightley, Amid a Place of Stone, 2021, UV print on Manhasset music stand, finials, knobs, glass, hardware, LED stand lights, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist; Amnesia, 2020, UV print on Manhasset music stands, lamp and chandelier crystal, hardware, LED stand lights, dimensions variable, collection of Greg Pettyjohn [image description: Two music stand sculptures adorned in finials and chandelier crystals illuminated by light from the windows behind them.]

Emily Daggett Smith, Amid a Place of Stone, 2020, Performed at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, May 2021, video, 10:25; color, sound, courtesy of the artist [image description: A flatscreen mounted on the wall with an image of a woman playing a violin.]