Fall 2022 exhibitions

Artspace New Haven presents exhibitions opening on September 17, 2022 with subsequent programming featuring the work of Ilana Harris-Babou and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas, each engaged with the visual lexica, conditions, and impacts of extractive capitalism.

Ilana Harris-Babou: Revelations
Ilana Harris-Babou’s solo exhibition Revelations presents recent video installations, collages, and ceramics navigating contradictory desires within our all-consuming image culture. Using the aesthetics of advertising and DIY influencing within wellness culture, Harris-Babou’s works stage darkly humorous and subversive revelations about material quick fixes for structural inequities. Rather than offering a critique of biblical proportions, Harris-Babou’s works disclose Black self-determination.

Revelations is accompanied by a series of free public programs and a catalog designed by William Hodgson featuring new research from Re’al Christian, Laurel V. McLaughlin, Yasmina Price, and Wendy Vogel. 

Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas: Against the General Good/ Contra el Bien General
In Against the General Good/ Contra el Bien General, the artistic duo Bergman & Salinas (Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas) present a new series of conceptual works including sculptures, mixed-media collages, photography, paintings on canvas, a sound installation, and an essay. This body of work critiques how systems of capitalism corral the commons, against the general good for humans and non-humans alike through the collective, sustainable, and material history of sumi ink.

Against the General Good/ Contra el Bien General will run in parallel with a free series of public workshops and lectures entitled The Commons: towards reclaiming collective power, hosted by Bergman & Salinas during two short-term residencies in September and November 2022 at Artspace New Haven.

Programs
Everybody Knows: A Poetry Reading with Rae Armantrout
Sunday, September 18th, 3–4:30pm

Ilana Harris-Babou: Revelations, An Artist Lecture
Thursday, September 22nd 6–7:30pm

Emollience: Form, Function, Ephemera, A Candle-Making Workshop with Bruno Smith
Thursday, October 6, 6–8pm

Raw Juicescape Smoothie-Making Workshop with Alexis Evans
Wednesday, October 12, 6–8pm

Eat the Other: A Lecture with Yasmina Price
Thursday, October 13, 6–8pm

Artspace Fall Exhibitions Artist Conversation: Ilana Harris-Babou with Bergman & Salinas
Wednesday, October 26, 6–7:30pm
Virtual

Preservation and Access: A Conversation with Opal Ecker DeRuvo and Sophie Duncan
Thursday, November 3, 6–8pm

Ceramic Sculpture Building: A Workshop with Kiara Matos, PART 1
Saturday, November 5, 6–8pm

Against the General Good/Contra el Bien General, An Artist Lecture with Bergman & Salinas
Thursday, November 10, 6–7:30pm

Freeing the Seed, Freeing the Breeder: Fostering Genetic and Social Diversity with Open Source Seed, A Lecture with Jack Kloppenburg
Friday, November 11, 6–7:30pm
Virtual

Collaboration in Nature: Easy Permaculture Concepts for Kids in Common Ground Farm and Garden Conference
Saturday, November 12, 12:30–2:30pm
Common Ground High School,  New Haven, CT 06515

The Last Great Dispossession—Climate Justice and the Commons: A Lecture with Vishwas Satgar
Tuesday, November 15, 6–7:30pm
Virtual

Lecture and Cooking Class with Ronaldo “Rony” Lec Ajcot (Kakchiquel, Mayan), IMAP, Institute of Mesoamerican Permaculture
Wednesday, November 16, 6–7:30pm

That Which Cannot Be Owned: A Lecture with Dr. Gerald Torres
Thursday, November 17, 6–7:30pm

Ecological Poetics: A Poetry Reading with Sky Hopinka and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
Friday, November 18, 6–7:30pm

Ceramic Sculpture Building: A Workshop with Kiara Matos, PART 2
Saturday, November 19, 6–8pm

The Art of Preservation: A Pickling Workshop with Chef Steve Roberts
Saturday, December 3, 3–5pm

“Saġuiŋaruq: It Is Sinuous”: A Poetry Reading with Joan Naviyuk Kane
TBD. Please check our calendar soon.

All programming is held at Artspace New Haven, 50 Orange St. New Haven, CT 06510, unless otherwise noted. Artspace New Haven is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. These exhibitions were organized by Director Curatorial Affairs, Laurel V. McLaughlin, in dialogue with the artists and Lisa Dent, Executive Director, Artspace New Haven.