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Enter the Cúcala: Audio Tour—To Not Give a Mango’s Damn

Script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Mae Blackwell Transcript As you can observe, Rixy prefers to work on unconventional surfaces, her background in sculpture and spatial awareness inspire her to […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—Reuziad (times of Woe)

Script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Mae Blackwell Transcript This mixed media piece, titled Reuziad (times of woe), is one of the many dynamic pieces by Cyrille Conan that is […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—Dez Gouel Nedeleg (winter solstice)

Audio clip and script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Mae Blackwell Transcript Here, again, we see Cyrille Conans circle motif, but this time the shapes are clear, forming an outline […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—o/e

Audio clip and script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Aria Cooper Transcript This colorful, geometric, 20 panel painting is called o/e by Kenji Nakayama. Kenji is a sign painter and […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—Site-specific, collaborative mural

Audio clip and script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellows Mae Blackwell and Aria Cooper Transcript Cyrille and Kenji have known each other since the early 2000s but didn’t start collaborating […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—Bezañ War E Du 2 (in good form)

Audio clip and script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Mae Blackwell Transcript This piece by Cyrille Conan, Bezañ War E Du 2 (in good form), encapsulates many of the artist’s […] More »



Folie à Deux: Audio Tour—May Flowers 1-4

Audio clip and script by Gallery & Curatorial Fellow Aria Cooper Transcript Looking at these paintings, what do you see? These paintings feel carefully put together. Notice how the blank […] More »



Folie à Deux: Behind the scenes—”o/e”

Composed of 20 pieces of salvaged metal signs, o/e showcases many important elements of Kenji Nakayama’s artistic practice, such as his interest in deconstructing and reconstructing characters to create vocabulary […] More »