[Voicings] Exhibition Opening

Join us for the Opening reception of [Voicings] and the kickoff to our 2023 season at Artspace!

We will gather at Artspace New Haven on Saturday, February 11th, from 6:00–8:00 PM for the opening to celebrate the exhibiting and programmed artists in [Voicings], on view from February 11 – April 15, 2023.

[Voicings] features the work of Mira Dayal, Dominique Duroseau, JJJJJerome Ellis, Nikita Gale, Gordon Hall, Christine Sun Kim, Joseph Keckler, Matt Keegan, Amiko Li, and Sahra Motalebi, and wonders about the capacities, conditions, powers of voices to utter sounds, words, and signs. Inspired by the numerous asides, coughs, stutters, glitched signs, breaths, and breaks from voices emerging from screens and calling devices over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when embodied voicings are rare if not impossible, this exhibition meditates on the pluralities, failures, and slippages of voicings. [Voicings] tremble in ongoing collectivity amongst vibrating vocal cords and also hold vibration, or vibrato, with one another. They also speak from the script in between brackets, live in the motion of fingers and the creaking positions of bodies, and shape efforts to individually and collectively speak.

Our regular public hours will begin then, Wednesday–Saturday, 12:00–6:00 PM. [Voicings] is accompanied by a free public programming series throughout the run of the exhibition including performances, lectures, workshops, and a reading group. Sign-up for our newsletter, follow us on Instagram @artspacenh, and check this online calendar regularly for more information.

Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in New York. Her studio work often involves laborious, critical uses of language, material, and site, and has been shown in at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Bungalow, Stand4 Gallery, Hesse Flatow, Gymnasium, Lubov, NURTUREart, NARS Foundation, and Abrons Art Center in New York, as well as at STNDRD (Granite City, IL), OCHI (Los Angeles), Kunstverein Dresden (Germany), and other spaces. She has participated in residencies and intensives at Ox-Bow School of Art, Art in General, and A.I.R. Gallery, and has been a visiting critic at Triangle Arts Association, Pratt Institute, SmackMellon, Kunstraum, and Residency Unlimited. Her writing has been published widely in Artforum, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Performa Magazine, and several exhibition catalogues. Dayal teaches in the MFA departments at Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts.

Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization.Her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include SATELLITE ART and PULSE Play in Miami; The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum (BWA for BLM), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, and Smack Mellon in New York City; The Newark Museum, Index Arts, Project for Empty Space, and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ.Her recent exhibitions and talks include: solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, panelist at Black Portraiture[s] at Harvard and lecturer at Vassar. She was a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, and received artist residencies from Gallery Aferro, Index Art Center, the Wassaic Project and Shine Portrait Studio. Duroseau holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts.

JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, stutterer, and artist. He was raised by Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants in Tidewater, Virginia, where he prays, gardens, and resides among the egrets and asters. He dreams of building a sonic bath house!

Nikita Gale is a Los Angeles–based artist who was raised throughout the United States in a military family. Gale’s practice is structured by long-term obsessions with specific objects, or classes of objects, and how they gesture toward highly specific social and political histories. Gale uses ubiquitous consumer technologies as frameworks to consider how individuals potentially reproduce their relationships to objects within their relationships to psychic space and political, social, and economic systems. Relying on a background in anthropology and archaeology, Gale focuses on objects of cultural significance and the conditions that shaped their making, particularly those associated with protest, rock music, and postwar industrial architecture.

Gordon Hall is a sculptor, performance-maker, and writer based in New York. Hall has presented solo exhibitions at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019; MIT List Visual Arts Center and The Renaissance Society in 2018; Temple Contemporary in 2016; and EMPAC in 2014, among others. Hall’s sculptures and performances have been exhibited in a variety of group settings including AIR Gallery in 2021; Verge Center for the Arts in 2019, The Drawing Center in 2018, Socrates Sculpture Park, Wysing Arts Center, and Abrons Arts Center in 2017; Art in General in 2016; White Columns, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Hessel Museum at Bard College in 2015; and The Brooklyn Museum in 2014, among many other venues. Hall’s books include Other People’s Houses (AIR Gallery, 2021); The Number of Inches Between Them (MIT 2019); OVER-BELIEFS, Gordon Hall Collected Writing 2011-2018 (PICA/Container Corps, 2019); Reading Things—Gordon Hall on Gender, Sculpture, and Relearning How To See (Walker Art Center, 2016), and AND PER SE AND (Art in General, 2016). 

Joseph Keckler is a multifaceted creator and singer who often springs moments of daily life into absurd and affecting underworld voyages. His work has been presented by Lincoln Center, NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, Centre Pompidou and others. In 2019 he premiered the performance piecesTrain With No Midnight (Prototype Festival) and Let Me Die (Opera Philadelphia) and toured the country as the national support act for rock band Sleater-Kinney. His essays, stories and art writing appear in Vice, Hyperallergic, McSweeney’s and other publications and his debut collection, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World, was published in 2018 by Turtle Point Press.  He is currently touring, working on new films, videos, and an album.

Born in California and based in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim has built an acclaimed practice around sound, its visual representations and how it circulates in society. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York; Manchester International Festival, Manchester; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Whitney Biennial, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;  Berlin Biennale; Shanghai Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among numerous others. She is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellowship, an MIT Media Lab Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia. Her work resides in the public collections of prominent public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and Tate Britain. She lives and works in Berlin.

Amiko Li (b.1993, Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist working across mediums to unpack the social, cultural, and economic complexities of my subjects. His works take an aleatoric approach to cultural nuances and interrogate the ethics of language and representation through strategies of reenactment, exchange and mistranslation. 

Matt Keegan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been widely exhibited at venues including SculptureCenter (NY), the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Grazer Kunstverein (Graz, Austria), The Art Institute of Chicago, and the New Museum. His work is represented in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, among others. His book 1996 was published in 2020, by the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA). Keegan is a Senior Critic in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Yale University.

Sahra Motalebi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her performance-exhibitions and installations explore the intersections of visual art, architecture, and performance through paintings, sculptures, texts, vocal compositions, and video. Her recent project Directory of Portrayals (2016–2020) is an autobiographical, open-form opera and book about geography, representation, and transnational family.

Motalebi’s projects have been exhibited and she has performed at the Kitchen, MoMA PS1, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Swiss Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation, New York University’s 80 Washington Square East Gallery, the Watermill Center, and Yaddo. In 2019, she participated in the 79th Whitney Biennial.