Description

The Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) will present the exhibition, Held Impermanence , scheduled to be on view from January through September, 2025. The exhibition is part of CSM’s reimagined Artists Select program, which provides contemporary artists opportunities to engage deeply with CSM’s collections and shift the Museum’s institutional presence and practices to benefit living artists and curators. This exhibition is guest curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds, an artist who investigates emotional dialects and psychogeographies of Blackness through portrait photography, video, choreography, and sculpture. Reynolds will draw upon CSM’s collection and archives as testament to Still’s desire to hold his entire corpus intact, while simultaneously asking audiences to consider how to navigate a space built to showcase the work of a white, Abstract Expressionist painter in a way that centers other lived experiences. Held Impermanence  will invite audiences to reflect on how healing is perceived and changes over time, and how to approach Still’s achievements from a perspective that contends with his, and our own, sense of mortality and a shared desire to “hold” impermanence. The grant supports the guest-curatorial honorarium and costs associated with the exhibition and publication.