i_titled_montage_for_news_story

“I tilted over until it becomes horizon” Group Exhibit Opens Thursday

The exhibit, which features five nationally recognized artists, explores ideas of queer kinship through a variety of media.
March 30, 2022

The String Room Gallery of Wells College is pleased to announce the opening of “I tilted over until it becomes horizon,” a five-person exhibition organized and curated by the artists themselves.

All are welcome to the gallery for a public reception on Thursday, March 31, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., and light refreshments will be served. The exhibition will remain on view until Tuesday, April 26. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Please note that all individuals are required to wear masks indoors on the College’s campus.

Featuring the work of Ohan Breiding, Abigail Raphael Collins, dean erdmann, EJ Hill and Joshua AM Ross, “I titled over until it becomes horizon” expands notions of queer kinship through shapeshifting and time travel. In the words of the artists, “we morph as we encounter elements of water, sound, heat and gravity, forging intimacies with each other as we take on new forms.” Together, the artists create new shared landscapes, both internal and external.

Ohan Breiding works in photography, video, drawing and varying forms of collaboration to depict the importance of queer kinship and ecological care via active listening, historical events, and the landscape as witness. Abigail Raphael Collins is an interdisciplinary artist using experimental documentary and video installation to consider relationships between intergenerational transmission and sound through a queer feminist lens. dean erdmann is an interdisciplinary artist working in moving and still images, sculpture and installation. Their work considers the politics of place, class and the body, to think through intersections of the personal and the geopolitical. EJ Hill works in durational performance, installation, painting, and collage and lives in the Manchester Square neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Joshua AM Ross’s research-based practice is an entrenched phenomenological approach that investigates institutional, bodily, and spatial structures that organize and influence perception.

About the String Room Gallery

The String Room Gallery is a center for the exhibition of contemporary art in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. Located on the Wells College campus in the southwest corner of the  first floor of Main Building, the gallery is free and open to the public.

For more information about the show at Wells, please see the gallery’s website at wells.edu/string-room-gallery or  contact co-directors Anna Ialeggio and Tara Kohn at stringroomgallery@wells.edu.

Pictured Above

LEFT: Dean Erdmann’s To Whom It May Concern, dean, after Catherine, after (translucent vinyl on windows; dedications borrowed from books by queer writers found at home, 2022)
RIGHT: Joshua AM Ross’ This way (colored pencil and graphite, 2022)

Related News

Evenline wins spring 2024 Odd/Even

Congratulations to all the Wells students who participated in Odd/Even this spring.

Filmmaker invited to Wells College for film screening

Alison O’Daniel will be on-campus for a screening of her film "The Tuba Thieves" as the last film for this year's Filmmaker-In-Residence Series.

Solar Day generates excitement for the 2024 total solar eclipse

Wells has a small history of experiencing eclipses since its founding.

Community Read 2024 inspires education of local women’s history

Wells College’s Louis Jefferson Long Library is sponsoring another Community Read for the academic year.