Katherine Simóne Reynolds’s guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence, goals to light up competing needs held in fixed pressure and attracts deeply upon the Clyfford Nonetheless Museum collections. Nonetheless’s formidable try to maintain his whole corpus intact permits viewers to see his acclaimed masterpieces, work made in painful transitions, and others that bear the scars of time.
Artworks change over time; their supplies carry the stain of what conservators describe as inherent vice. Viewers see work that have to relaxation, bearing marks that counsel metaphors of viscera and wounds via their surfaces, situation, and textures. Reynolds’s exhibition asks viewers how they gaze upon therapeutic over time, reply with their our bodies to this corpus, and strategy Nonetheless’s achievements from a perspective that contends with a way of mortality and a shared need to carry impermanence.
For the present, Reynolds selected a number of work with situation points to spotlight the influence of conservation on Nonetheless’s artwork. She additionally chosen works on paper to be displayed behind curtains to guard them from extra publicity within the museum’s skylit galleries. Guests could rigorously carry the curtains for an intimate viewing expertise of the works on paper. The exhibition additionally contains archival pictures, letters, notes, and objects to exhibit the themes and feelings. Held Impermanence is on view till September 14, 2025.
Reynolds is an artist, scholar, and curator who investigates the emotional dialects and psychogeography of Blackness inside the Black Midwestern panorama. Her artwork physicalizes feelings and experiences via photo-based works, movie, choreography, sculpture, and writing apply.
Designed particularly to show Nonetheless’s artwork, the Clyfford Nonetheless Museum in Denver, Colorado, is dwelling to roughly 3,125 items, representing 93% of his lifetime of labor. On the Nonetheless, guests will discover a world-class assortment gifted to Denver, award-winning structure, cross-disciplinary packages, and alternatives to discover creativity.
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Left: Clyfford Nonetheless, “PH-417” (1946), oil on canvas | Proper: Clyfford Nonetheless, “PH-1004” (1976), oil on canvas (pictures courtesy Clyfford Nonetheless Museum, Denver, CO. © Metropolis and County of Denver-ARS, NY)
