There is a tradition at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery of celebrating anniversaries with exhibitions that reflect on the legacy of Wesleyan alumni artists. For Always Being Relation, the gallery’s 50th anniversary exhibition, the notion of "alumni” expands beyond its conventional definition of University graduates, putting in dialogue work by artists who studied at Wesleyan with visiting artists who have exhibited in the gallery since its opening in 1973.
The title of the exhibition is a quote from Gertrude Stein’s Lectures in America (1935). In her talk “Plays,” Stein speaks about the function of relationality within landscape in the theater. Even without moving, the individual aspects of the landscape are always in relation to one another, “the trees to the hills the hills to the fields the trees to each other.” In Stein’s treatment everything is contingent except for the presence of relationality itself.
Tuesday, January 30 - Sunday, March 3, 2024
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown, Connecticut
Tuesday - Sunday: 12 - 5 pm
Monday: Closed
