Exhibition website: Nancy Plum: Studio Potter.
Fall 2021. Display cases, Snyder-Phillips Hall, Michigan State University.
The exhibition was curated by Tessa Paneth-Pollak and Kaylee McCarthy (RCAH ’22), in cooperation with from Elizabeth Plum, Sarah Plum, and Sarah Laitala. The works in the exhibition were loaned by the Plum family. The photographs are by Charles Benoit.
The exhibition at RCAH was installed by Steve Baibak. The website was created by Kaylee McCarthy (RCAH ’22), Lora Root (RCAH ’21), and Tessa Paneth-Pollak.
Exhibition website: Michael Darough: The Talk.
10th Annual Emerging Visions: Perspectives in African-American Experience. Online exhibition and residency, RCAH LookOut Gallery, Michigan State University.
January 2021
Curated by Tessa Paneth-Pollak, exhibition text by Tessa Paneth-Pollak
In Michael Darough’s ongoing series “The Talk,” faceless men, viewed from behind, represent the stories of Black people murdered by police in the United States. Darough models for the photographs himself, inserting himself into each fatal scenario, shaping his own body into a memorial for each lost life. Distilling each story down to one pose and one prop, Darough highlights common denominators linking stories that might otherwise seem disparate, but which are structurally linked by systems of white supremacy, racial profiling, police violence, and cycles of criminalization and mass incarceration. Darough’s series bears witness to the numbing regularity with which high-profile stories emerge in the news of Black people victimized by US policing practices, while also — through a series of “Unknown Portraits” — honoring the countless other stories that struggle to be told or do not receive news coverage.
Alex Callender: Difficult Love (What Scatters and Then Comes Back Together)
Fall 2020. 9th Annual Perspectives in African-American Experience: Emerging Visions Residency & Exhibition.
RCAH LookOut Gallery, MSU + Online Audiovisual Tour.
Paintings and drawings exploring a speculative history of the Black Atlantic performed by women channeled from colonial paintings and archives.
