Please join us at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins on Saturday, March 21 at 1pm for an exhibition walkthrough of Proposal for a Monument with artist Yashua Klos and Tracy L. Adler, Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
Featuring a new body of woodblock print collages, Proposal for a Monument expands upon Klos’s earlier exploration of survival strategies to invoke presence itself as a monument of resistance. History has shown that monuments, as both structures and symbols, are not infallible; what then, Klos asks, might replace them? The exhibition leaves the answer as an open-ended proposal, drawing from a framework of monumentality that transcends fixed conditions or static forms. At a moment when Black and brown bodies are increasingly erased from public space, Klos envisions a radical “hyper-visibility” of marginalized individuals constructing images in their own likeness.
