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Open Sky
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California
Presented as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Curated by Kris Kuramitsu

August 14, 2024 - January 5, 2025

Open Sky presents the work of three contemporary artists who take on light and space as both material and subject to encourage us to reconsider our place in the universe. Taking a cue from James Turrell’s Dividing the Light at Pomona College—a keystone work in the Benton Museum of Art collection and the only public Skyspace in Southern California—Open Sky explores the potential of somatically affective work to investigate our embodied relationship to the universe. The artists in this exhibition—Xin Liu, Agnieszka Polska, Marcus Zúñiga, and the duo of Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade—fluidly engage scientific and artistic languages to stage experiential explorations of what it means to be human at this precarious moment.

seeing environment, 2024, light, mirrors, glass, acrylic, aluminum, mylar, ponderosa, mica
centro beam splitter: 65x30x30in/166x76x76cm
este mirror: 48x48x12in/122x122x30.5cm
sur light source: 65.5x38x25in/166x96.5x63.5cm
oeste mirror: 48x48x12in/122x122x30.5cm
norte mica sphere: 9x9x9in/23x23x23cm

commissioned by Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, installation photography by Jeff McLane

emplacement, 2023, light, mirrors, prisms, lenses, acrylic, ponderosa, 63x63x16.5in/160x160x42cm