Rested
Rested is a meditation on the slowing of our physical occupations since the global pandemic and the implications for individual and collective motion.
Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present Rested, a group exhibition exploring the body in varying degrees of ease, rest or inactivity. On view Nov 10 - Jan 8, Rested brings together work by Benny Andrews, Marlene Dumas, Chase Hall, Wangari Mathenge, Kayode Ojo, Frida Orupabo, George Rouy, Ming Smith, Henry Taylor, Bob Thompson and Charles White.
Through painting, photography, collage and sculpture, each artist considers the remove of the body from exertion and toil, while acknowledging the lineage of resting forms that have populated art history: repose, contrapposto and the odalisque.
By exploring the ways in which humans assert themselves within time and space, these exciting works present a sense of bodies lain dormant.
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Henry Taylor, Portrait of Rashid Johnson, 2019 -
Frida Orupabo, Untitled (seated woman), 2021
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George Rouy, When It's Too Close to See, 2021
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Bob Thompson, Odalisque, 1960
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Wangari Mathenge, Regarding Reverence, Resistance and Respite, 2021
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Benny Andrews, Time for Church, 1998
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Chase Hall, Richard Wright 1943, 2021
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Chase Hall, The Pallbearers, 2021
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Charles White, Untitled (Seated Man), 1936
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Kayode Ojo, Take a Minute Girl Come Sit Down and Tell Us What’s Been Happening, 2021
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Frida Orupabo, Untitled (girl with book and horse), 2021
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Ming Smith, Aunt Ruth (Columbus, Ohio), 1979
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Marlene Dumas, Black Beauty (Long Tall Sally), 1996
