Kay Rosen
Enamel paint on canvas
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
william cordova
Enamel, paper collage, gold leaf on paper
130.25 x 123.5 inches (330.8 x 313.7 cm)
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Arturo Herrera
Wool felt
162.25 x 66.5 inches (412.1 x 168.9 cm)
Cameron Martin
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 inches (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
Jeffrey Gibson
Acrylic paint on canvas inset in custom frame, acrylic velvet, acrylic felt, glass beads, seaglass beads, druzy crystal, vintage pinback buttons, vintage plastic arrowhead, seashell, abalone, artificial sinew, nylon thread, cotton canvas, nylon and cotton rope
69 x 39 x 4 5/8 inches (175.3 x 99.1 x 11.7 cm)
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Marlene McCarty
Graphite and ballpoint pen on paper, in artist frame
53 x 38 inches (134.6 x 96.5 cm)
Louis Fratino
Oil on canvas
47 x 39 inches (119.4 x 99.1 cm)
Kara Walker
Japanese water-based paint, sumi ink, and cut masa paper on Japanese mulberry paper
79 3/4 x 78 1/2 inches (202.6 x 199.4 cm)
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Josephine Halvorson
Oil on linen
31 x 22 inches (79 x 56 cm)
Josephine Halvorson
Oil on linen
31 x 22 inches (79 x 56 cm)
Josephine Halvorson
Oil on linen
31 x 22 inches (79 x 56 cm)
Josephine Halvorson
Oil on linen
31 x 22 inches (79 x 56 cm)
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Merlin James
Acrylic on canvas
25.5 x 16.5 inches (64.8 x 41.9 cm)
Mitch Epstein
Vintage analog C-print
Framed: 39 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches (99.7 x 122.6 cm)
Jennifer Packer
Oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 18 1/2 inches (69 x 46.9 cm)
Kara Walker
Cut green, gold and red paper
23.5 x 20 inches (59.7 x 50.8 cm)
Marc Handelman
Watercolor and mixed media on paper mounted on panel
Set of 5, 19 x 66.875 inches (48.3 x 169.9 cm) overall, 19 x 13.375 inches
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Merlin James
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 54 3/8 inches (104 x 138 cm)
Sheila Hicks
Linen and buttons
7.875 x 5.5 inches (20 x 14 cm)
Tony Feher
Glass jar with metal screw lid, 98 objects arranged in an oval
Jar: 6 x 3 x 3 inches (15.2 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Objects in oval: 9 x 8 inches (22.9 x 20.3 cm)
Vik Muniz
57.875 x 40.75 x 12 inches (installed), object depth: 2.125 inches (147 x 103.5 x 30.5 cm)
AP 1/2
Erin Shirreff
Book pages, pins
Framed dimensions: 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Vik Muniz
5 from a portfolio of 9 gelatin silver prints
Image: 5 x 4 inches (12.7 x 10.2 cm)
Wardell Milan
Graphite, pastel, acrylic, oil on panel
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Zipora Fried
Colored pencil on paper
15 x 10.875 inches (38.1 x 27.6 cm)
Zipora Fried
Colored pencil on paper
15 x 10.875 inches (38.1 x 27.6 cm)
Zipora Fried
Colored pencil on paper
15 x 10.875 inches (38.1 x 27.6 cm)
Healing
May 3 – June 22, 2024
On view from May 3 through June 22, 2024, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. will present Healing, a group exhibition of work by a selection of gallery artists:
william cordova
Mitch Epstein
Tony Feher
Louis Fratino
Zipora Fried
Jeffrey Gibson
Josephine Halvorson
Marc Handelman
Arturo Herrera
Sheila Hicks
Merlin James
Cameron Martin
Marlene McCarty
Wardell Milan
Vik Muniz
Jennifer Packer
Kay Rosen
Erin Shirreff
Kara Walker
This presentation of Healing is conceived in homage to the 1992 group exhibition of the same name that inaugurated the founding of the gallery, then called Wooster Gardens, by Brent Sikkema. Held during the height of the AIDS crisis, Healing, 1992, proposed a thoughtful meditation on our intertwined capacities for creation and caretaking. The show was organized by Sikkema and Olivier Renaud-Clément, and featured works produced by the participating artists specifically for the exhibition. “Somehow,” wrote Faye Hirsch, in a review for Art in America, “they present the hopeful possibility that memory will be enough, materializing as it does in the least expected places.”
The Healing of 2024 emerges from the convulsive years of another global pandemic, alongside a more proximal experience of grief for the gallery. Across eras and societal transformations, few things in life remain as constant as loss and its cataclysmic reframing of normality, on both a collective and individual scale; yet as such loss persists, so too does our impulse to gather, communicate, create, and, in the process, move towards a place of renewal. This contemporary exhibition is not intended as a direct mirror of the original Healing, but rather a continued throughline of making art as a means of understanding the uncertainty and tenderness found within our shared affective moment.