PLEASE JOIN US
Saturday, September 26 at 12 PM
for
James Esber and Ian Berry in conversation
discussing the current exhibition
James Esber: My Thing, Your Thing, and the Thing Itself
Light refreshments will be available
James Esber has exhibited his work widely, including a 25-year survey at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University and a solo exhibition at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT. He has had solo shows at PPOW in NYC, Bernard Toale in Boston, and Pierogi in both New York and Leipzig. Group exhibitions include ASKEW at D.C. Moore Gallery, Flex at the Tang Museum, Now What? at the Norton Museum of Art, The Land of Earthly Delights at the Laguna Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (curated by Robert Storr), New-Economy Painting at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, and Pop Surrealism at The Aldrich Museum. His art has been written about in The New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Juxtapoz, Art News, Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail. Esber lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Ian Berry is Dayton Director of The Tang Museum at Skidmore College and Executive Director of The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. He has organized over 100 museum exhibitions for the Tang and museums across the United States. Recent curatorial projects include collaborations with Mark Thomas Gibson, Ruby Sky Stiler, and Nicole Cherubini and surveys of painters Mary Weatherford, Dona Nelson, and the postcard collages of Ellsworth Kelly.