Visitors may amass knowledge and be reminded that at all times, we are individually and for the good of all, negotiating our history into what we want for our future. 

When we start questioning that particular binary, we begin thinking about all of the other binaries that exist, the ways we’ve constructed them, and how we can start deconstructing them.

Through german’s assemblage sculptures and performances, the viewer has the opportunity to look back to the girls—to hear them—and forward into a future that holds space for more than just their suffering.

Johnny stretches over to a piled bench in the back of the shop and returns with a bow, handing it to Don as he surveys his new fiddle, spinning it with the fingers of his right hand, the base of the instrument resting in the palm of his left. He gingerly retrieves the bow from Ryster, bringing the fiddle to his chin, the bow hovering above the strings...

The pillars of Venice absorb minerals from the water, slowly hardening into stone. Flowers rot and fill the room with perfume. Smoke licks and stains the clay, and the clay remembers that.

It is not enough to dig through the archives and “rediscover” the women who were working within the Abstract Expressionist movement. We need to critically consider the conditions that prevented them from being included in the canon and expand the canon to make room for the artists who don’t fit the mold.