Quartet (or, a Basket of Roses)

July 14 – August 19, 2023

Grant Wahlquist Gallery is pleased to announce “Quartet (or, a Basket of Roses),” a group exhibition of works by Tad Beck, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Matthew Metzger, and Abbey Williams. The show runs from July 14 through August 19, 2023. “Quartet” is an investigation of the relation between sight and sound through works that in various ways deal in or with “abstraction.” Arriving at a moment in which certain forms of “abstract art” appear newly ascendant, the exhibition performs an imminent critique of abstraction as strategy for addressing cultural transmission and its interruption, grief, and absence. Linking the heterogeneous practices of four exceptional mid-career artists by focusing on works that think in, with, or alongside sound and/or music, “Quartet” refuses the notion that abstraction merely means “non-representational,” but instead considers it as an approach that opens space for reconsideration and consolation. (Read more.)