Tomorrow marks the opening of a new weekly series of street-facing exhibitions that will make art accessible to the public and offer opportunities to North Texas artists. Nasher Windows will present exhibitions featuring works by early and mid-career North Texas artists, who are selected by the Nasher curatorial team. Artists have been invited to develop site-specific work or present projects that have been cancelled in other art spaces due to the shutdown.
“We are compelled to imagine new ways to show art to our local audiences, and to give our region’s artists a space to show their work,” says Director Jeremy Strick.
The first Nasher Windows exhibition will be presented by Dallas-based artist Tamara Johnson and run Friday, May 22 through Wednesday, May 27. Johnson’s work Deviled Egg and Okra Column, 2020, was slated for exhibition at the Dallas art space ex ovo before the show was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A fitting homage to the Nasher Collection, the piece is a nod to Brancusi’s Endless Column and features a mirroring tower of stacked deviled eggs and pickled okra, cast in resin spanning the height of the vestibule space.
Of the work, Johnson says: “Since moving back to Texas in 2018, my work has shifted to explicitly focus on a more personal iconography—my relationship to the South and the ways in which my (temporary) body moves and works within this familiar, yet unfamiliar landscape. Each of these works explore a personal terrain, embedding meaning in foods I associate with my upbringing, like deviled eggs, pickled okra and Rotel. These items become condensed bouillon cubes of material meaning, holding vulnerability, sexuality, and humor in a delicate balance.”
Next, from May 29–June 3 Xxavier Edward Carter’s Start Livin’ in the New World will take over Nasher Windows.
Installations will be viewable from the street. Future artists will be announced on the Nasher’s social media channels.