Resurrectura
Sasha Fishman (2024-25 Studio Artist)
November 9, 2024 – February 22, 2025
Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Murmurs is pleased to present Resurrectura, a solo exhibition of multimodal, kinetic sculptures by Sasha Fishman opening November 9, 2024 from 6-9pm. The works on view—composed largely of moving image, biomaterials, and running water—exemplify Fishman’s sustained engagement with an aesthetics of transcorporeality. Disgust, pleasure, identification, and desire commingle within the interstices of both Fishman’s material structures and the interspecies encounters they speak of.
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni announced as NYSCA/NYFA 2024 Artist Fellows!
Jesus Benavente (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2021-22
Rowan Renee (Interdisciplinary Work) – Airport Beach, 2021-22
Itziar Barrio (Interdisciplinary Work) – did not feel low, was sleeping, 2023
Moko Fukuyama (Interdisciplinary Work) – Streaming Surface, 2022
Miatta Kawinzi (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2022-23, Numma Yah, forthcoming 2024
Kiyan Williams (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2022-23
Madjeen Isaac (Painting) – Studio Artist 2023-24, Come as You Are, This Is Our Battle Too, forthcoming 2024
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni named as 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts!
Itziar Barrio (Film-video) – did not feel low, was sleeping, 2023
Bang Geul Han (Fine Arts) – featured in You’d Think By Now, 2022
Rachelle Mozman Solano (Photography) – Metamorphosis of Failure, 2019; 2011 Artist Studio
I’m a thousand different people—Every one is real
Joseph Liatela (2022-23 Studio Artist)
March 15, 2024 – January 05, 2025
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
Taking its title from a drawing by artist and queer icon Candy Darling, this exhibition brings together a selection of works recently acquired by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Darling’s words evoke the multidimensionality of queer and trans life and artistic practices that insist on defining art and life entirely on one’s own terms. Taken together, the exhibited works—across various media and representational styles—embrace a spectral, prismatic approach to rendering LGBTQIA+ existence. Both contemporary and historical, the works elide the demand for authenticity and easy legibility, instead holding space for plurality, reinvention, and fantasy.