Carrie Moyer, Kang Seung Lee, and Hugh Steers are included in the group exhibition a field at bloom and hum at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York, on view from February 14–July 20, 2025.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum's press release follows:
At a time when the rights of members of the queer community are under threat (the American Civil Liberties Union tracked 437 anti-LGBTQ bills in the US in 2024, for example), the Tang will present a two-floor exhibition featuring work by queer artists that assert their lives and stories upon the world. a field of bloom and hum brings together extensive series created over multiple decades by artists such as Steven Arnold, Dyke Action Machine!, and Robert Giard, with seminal works by David Armstrong, Joe Brainard, Tony Feher, Oliver Herring, Jim Hodges, George Platt Lynes, Catherine Opie, Mickalene Thomas, and many others. They will be presented alongside new commissions—including works made in collaboration with students—and an art and activism resource room for gatherings, workshops, dissemination, and study.
The performative, abstract, and conceptual works in a field of bloom and hum exemplify one of its major inquiries: How can generous and open interpretative possibilities support new definitions of history, community, and queerness? In addition, public programs co-organized by faculty, such as films, dialogues, symposia, and workshops, will explore issues of history telling; theatricality; memory and loss; inclusion and identity formation; and the role of artists in building and defining queer communities. The exhibition’s intergenerational dialogues will serve as points of entry for new scholarly inquiry and can act as a model for novel modes of thinking and making.
