Tang Teaching Museum celebrates new exhibit online on Tuesday
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museumand Art Gallery at Skidmore College invites the public to an online celebration of the new publication “Opener 31: Tim Davis – When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas)” on Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. on the Tang Instagram account.
The event will feature a conversation between artist, writer, and musician Tim Davis and Rachel Seligman, the book’s editor and the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator at the Tang. Davis, who will be on the front porch of his upstate New York home, will also perform some original songs.
“Opener 31: Tim Davis – When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas)” is a catalog that presents recent work by Davis, whose sprawling oeuvre includes photography, video, drawing, installation, and sound works. Davis makes artwork that explores the intersection of humor and longing, where the ridiculous meets the sublime, and the abject aligns with the beautiful in unexpected ways. The exhibition catalog includes a new interview with Tim Davis by Seligman and essays by Luc Sante and Tim Davis. The catalog is the latest in the Opener Series, and features beautiful color reproductions of all the works in the exhibition as well as full documentation of the show installed in the Tang’s Malloy Wing.
The book launch event, which is free and open to the public, will be streamed live at https://www.instagram.com/tangteachingmuseum. For more information, visit http://tang.skidmore.edu or email tang@skidmore.edu.