Portrait of Yashua Klos by Daniel Greer.

Tracy L. Adler. Photo by Janelle Rodriguez.

Please join us at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins on Saturday, March 21 at 1pm for an exhibition walkthrough of Proposal for a Monument with artist Yashua Klos and Tracy L. Adler, Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. This event is free and open to the public; RSVP not required.

Featuring a new body of woodblock print collages, Proposal for a Monument expands upon Klos’s earlier exploration of survival strategies to invoke presence itself as a monument of resistance. History has shown that monuments, as both structures and symbols, are not infallible; what then, Klos asks, might replace them? The exhibition leaves the answer as an open-ended proposal, drawing from a framework of monumentality that transcends fixed conditions or static forms. At a moment when Black and brown bodies are increasingly erased from public space, Klos envisions a radical “hyper-visibility” of marginalized individuals constructing images in their own likeness.

Tracy L. Adler is the Johnson-Pote Director of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College where she curated Yashua Klos’s first solo museum exhibition Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR in 2022. She has curated major exhibitions and edited accompanying publications, among them Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature (2014), Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe (2016), Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play (2017), Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day (2018), Elias Sime: Tightrope (2019), Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine (2021), and Rhona Bitner: Resound (2023). In 2017, Adler was awarded first prize by the Association of Art Museum Curators for the publication accompanying the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, and in 2020, the exhibition catalogue she edited Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day was shortlisted by the College Art Association for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.