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Audio Bonus: Listen to a reading by artist Lauren Fueyo of stories included within this exhibition, here!
Lauren Fueyo & Kristine Rumman: Y, Y, Y, How, How, How
Original Opening: March 6, 2020
Closed For COVID-19: March 11, 2020
Re-Opened: September 12, 2020
Closed: September 26, 2020
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Y, Y, Y, How, How, How is a collaborative exhibition by artists Lauren Fueyo and Kristine Rumman. This exhibition brings Rumman’s glass background and sensitivity to architecture together with Fueyo’s tragicomic storytelling.
Set in a forest-like environment, long-legged branch-beings strain to use their tools including wheels, stoppers, and occasionally, the hint of an arm. Two-way reflective heads loom above and mirror back to pools of water slowly evaporating on the ground below. Music stands mark the space, each holding documents that share a different stick-related warning.
This exhibition is a departure from Rumman’s past work that anchors itself in factual elements of her familial history in Palestine. Fueyo, who has recently focused on comedy performances, continues her wrestling against the dogmatic through new material and sound investigations alongside Rumman in this installation.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lauren Fueyo is an artist, writer, performer, and teacher. She has exhibited and performed at Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), the Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Center (Chautauqua, NY), Pilot Projects, Practice Gallery and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Delaware County Community College (Media, PA), the Center for Visual Arts (Denver, CO), and the DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL). She is a recipient of a Velocity Fund Grant (collaborators: Zoe Berg, Maya Olympia Bush, Anne Lukins, Jino Rahimi, Kris Rumman, Netta Sadovsky, Anna Sweeney), a Future Faculty Fellowship from Tyler School of Art, and a Presidential Scholarship from Eastern University. Lauren completed her MFA at Tyler School of Art and her BA in Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University. Lauren is a 2019 alumnus of the Chautauqua School of Art residency where she will be returning this summer to teach in Chautauqua Institute’s Young Artists program.
More Info: laurenfueyo.com
Kristine Rumman is an artist and educator. Her interdisciplinary practice is migratory, situationally responsive and inextricably linked to the geopolitics of the sites where she has lived. Her work often investigates the possibilities of what art can do that politics cannot. Rumman completed an MFA from Tyler School of Art & Architecture. She is the recipient of The Velocity Fund through Temple Contemporary and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, and recognition from the Glass Arts Society, who named her a top Emerging International Talent and a 2019 Saxe Emerging Artist. Most recently, Rumman has been awarded a collaboration with Pilkington NSG, a global glass manufacturer, to actualize her project debuting in Fall 2020 at the Center for Visual Arts on the campus of the Toledo Museum of Art.
More Info: kristinerumman.com