January Exhibitions

Opening Reception: Friday, January 3, 2024

Members: 5 – 6 p.m. | General Public: 6 – 8 p.m.

Exhibition Dates: January 4 – February 2, 2024

Kate Fleming

AUGUST

AUGUST is a re-creation of a suburban summer night. Growing up in Arlington, Virginia, Kate Fleming spent nights driving around in cars with friends, drinking slurpees under sodium street lights, breathing in the humid scents of lawn grass and hot asphalt, and listening to the crickets sing. For Fleming, a hot summer night is a magical, limitless experience, full of infinite possibilities.

Featuring paintings, sculptural works, scents, and sounds, AUGUST transports the viewer to another time of year and another time of life. Late summer, like late adolescence, is rich with the sweetly melancholic realization that something is coming to an end.

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Rachelle Wunderink

Your Comfort, My Silence

Society censors, rather than confronts, stories of rape and harassment. Rachelle Wunderink’s work unveils the consequences of sexual assault trauma by engaging viewers with the emotional affect. Incorporating influences from Affect Theory, Relational Aesthetics, and Trauma therapy, Wunderink’s site-specific exhibition for IA&A Hillyer, Your Comfort, My Silence, examines the ways that trauma lingers leaving lasting imprints on lives. She does this in three key ways throughout her body of work: “Blankouts,” an immersive wheat-pasted installation, which looks at the covert ways in which society suppresses women’s stories of assault through the use of coded language and censorship. Secondly, “Trauma Embodied,” looks at how the artist self-censors her own stories through a multi-layered editing process of nine different videos. Lastly, the artist activates the gallery space by creating various modes of interaction that invites her audience to consider how the work leaves an imprint on their own experiences.

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Where Are You Really From?

Where are you really from? What connects you to a place, a culture, an ancestor?

I am a first-generation American of parents from disparate worlds. What is my relationship to this country? What do I claim from my ancestors? What do I hold on to, and what do I pass down to my children?

In this exhibition, I investigate these questions through the language of geometry. Quilting patterns, meaningful geometric shapes, my grandfather’s paper-folding games, and traditional Polish craft materials, all help me actively bridge my family’s layered identities.

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