Reflections in the Long Night

Reception: Friday, September 18, 6-8pm Reflections in the Long Night is a group exhibition curated by Montserrat Gallery Curatorial Assistant, Madeline McGann, that explores divergent queer realities in which the participating artists materialize the complexity of finding oneself against cultural heteronormativity and the pressures of everyday life. The exhibition proposes queerness as a driving force of empowerment through play, revelation, and dérive, felt in flickers of warmth, and where time and space move differently. Representing the space(s) between points of departure and destination, the artists in the exhibition utilize their respective materials as reference points to re-orient their hopes, fears, longings, nightmares, and ultimately, reality. The process of artmaking itself activates queer discovery and perpetual becoming, and acts to reflect upon contemporary culture and environments. The selected artists share a breadth of aesthetic and material perspectives that embrace liminal bodies as they move through various transitions, currents, and changes. The exhibition features Laicee Blackwell, Tynan Byrne, Ivy Howard, Clare Tof Miryam, Frankie Symonds, Jake Wanamaker, Henry Walls, and Echo VanBenschoten.