2020 Exhibitions
Off the Wall / Holiday Sale and Winter Showcase
Zygote Press Off the Wall Holiday Show Is Back!
For the first time since March, Zygote Press will be opening our doors to the public – but by appointment only. Our annual Off the Wall Holiday show has become something of a tradition, featuring handmade, local, original works of art by some of the area’s best artists, as well as Zygote Members, Renters, and Interns. We also will be featuring work by our recent Artists in Residence, such as Antwoine Washington, Kasumi, Kill Joy, and Marco Sanchez. In addition to framed and unframed prints, we will have tons of gifts ideas at all price points, greeting cards, handmade books, scratch pads, and more.
And if you can’t make it in person, don’t worry, you can always visit our online shop! There you can order directly and pick-up at the Zygote gallery or have it shipped to your home by the artist. Your purchases will help support local artists and Zygote Press, after what has been a challenging year for us all.
Off The Wall / Holiday Sale & Winter Showcase
November 28 – December 30
*open by appointment only*
The gallery is open by reservation through Eventbrite or email at gallery@zygotepress.org
Curbside pick up will be available on Thursday and Friday up until December 20th.
Exhibition: Printmaking Expedition Project / Summer Showcase at Metro Health Main Campus
July 15 – October 30
Summer Showcase represents artworks of Zygote Press 2020 Renters and Archrivals prints from our in-Residencies programs: AIR Established, Dresden Exchange, Rasmuson Foundation Exchange.
Margaret Collins
Elizabeth Emery / PEP
Bob Herbst
Yong Han / PEP
Michael Loderstedt & Lori Kella / PEP
Michaelle Marschall
Dinara Mirtalipova
Corrie Slawson / PEP
Lisa Schonberg
Wendy Partridge
Jan Zorman
Hui-Chu Ying / PEP
Genius loci_toward understanding of place
March 13 – May 15
Opening Reception: Friday, March 13 / 6pm – 8pm
Curator Talk / Closing Reception: Friday, May 15
“America is a country made of places, not just the places marked by road signs and maps, but also the less tangible but no less meaningful places forged in the crucible of memory, longing, and desire.”–- Thelma Golden, Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City
Place carries the markings of time and change. Through intuitive observing, studying, and documenting specific locations humans become witnesses to place changes and subsequent impacts on the human experience.
Genius loci_toward understanding of place featuring the works of Tressa Jones and Arron Foster, investigates land and place to explore themes of time, change, longing, and loss. This exhibition will utilizes wall-hung elements along with projections and sculptural aspects to create a space that audiences both view and interact with.
Tressa Jones
Arron Foster
Past Due
This group exhibition foregrounds the need for reparations in the United States. Artists from Cleveland, Chicago, and New York converge to call-in what is owed. Printed works, original texts, sculptural pieces, adornment, new media, and embodied action fill the gallery. Each artist has devised their own methods of measure, collection, or offering with approaches ranging from popular culture to myth.
This is a past due notice, and the debt is mounting. By conservative accounting, a population of around 2 million enslaved individuals worked an average of ten hours a day, year round for a period of no less than 70 years in the United States. What is the measure of their stolen labor in dollars, in time, and in artifacts? How could we reconcile the trauma endured through Jim Crow, predatory lending, redlining, prison industrial complex, and the systemic devaluation of Black labor and goods?
What mediums of exchange could even begin to resolve a debt of this magnitude? Artists consider the alchemy of currency — combining psychology and symbolism to commoditize time, sweat, and genius. They acknowledge the limitations of currency — attempting, without success, to transfer worth from actions to objects. Given these complications, they define reparations’ terms of repayment in a currency of their own design.