Upcoming Exhibitions

Works from the Lamont Gallery Collection
July-September

(Title and specific dates are still TBD)

Get a glimpse at some of the hidden gems in the Lamont Gallery collection. We are not officially a collecting gallery, but like many arts institutions, we have amassed a selection of works over the years. In this exhibition we will share a variety of interesting and engaging pieces..

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Tradition Interrupted 
October – December, 2022

Tradition Interrupted is an international group exhibition that explores the methods used by artists to conflate contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft in a range of media, from rugs and mosaics to metalwork and ceramics. The eleven artists in the exhibition hail from around world.

Curator Carrie Lederer states:

The artists of Tradition Interrupted are merging age-old media and technique with innovation, and re-visioning culturally historic ideas to create new work that interrupt traditional practice but still collaborates with the past. For generations, traditional craft and art practices held steadfast and often visually defined a culture. Today, artists are unraveling certain traits and facets of these ancient customs to redefine or reclaim them for the contemporary world.

For many of the artists in Tradition Interrupted, everyday objects are sources of powerful agency to recall memories in danger of being forgotten, or to call into question revisionist histories. Many of the artists work in a conceptually “uncomfortable”space with the traditions and theories of their past as they create hybrid
artworks that address contemporary concepts and concerns.

Artists: Anila Quayyum Agha (Pakistan), Faig Ahmed (Azerbaijan), Camille Eskell (U.S.), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Ana Gómez (Mexico), Shirin Hosseinvand (Iran), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), Steven Young Lee (U.S.), Jaydan Moore (U.S.), Ramekon O’Arwisters (U.S.), Jason Seife (U.S.), and Masami Teraoka (Japan).

Tradition Interrupted was organized by Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions, Bedford Gallery Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California. www.bedfordgallery.org
 

Image Credit: Anila Quayyum Agha, Teardrop, edition 2/8, 2016