Opening Reception: Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers + Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night

Join us for the opening of two exhibitions!

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers and Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night, on view May 18, 2024 through September 15, 2024. The artists will be in attendance at the Opening Reception.

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers is the first major traveling exhibition for Halfmoon and includes new and recent works made over the last five years. This exhibition is co-organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and will travel to The Contemporary Austin, opening in January 2025. For the exhibition, Halfmoon was commissioned by both institutions to create some of her largest works to date, including Flagbearer, a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over twelve-feet tall and greeting visitors at the entrance to Bemis’s building.

In Black of Night, Paul Stephen Benjamin presents new and recent video installations, paintings, text-based work, and sculpture, as conceptual entry points for dialogue around identity, race, and patriotism. By continually “documenting” the color black through his multifaceted practice, he is also deconstructing its meaning — breaking it down to its simplest form and allowing for it to operate as a medium for interpretation and introspection. Included in the exhibition is a variety of work, from single and multi-channel videos to sculpture and painting to site-specific installations.