Her first major solo museum show since 2019, Saya Woolfalk’s (CRF 2018) Field Notes from the Empathic Universe is now open to the public at the Newark Museum of Art. The show will be available until September 2022.
“Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe invites visitors to enter the kaleidoscopic and culturally hybrid worlds created by the artist. The exhibition features an immersive video installation exploring portraiture and a series of new mixed media collages… Known for her site-specific multimedia works that investigate global traditions and cultural difference, Woolfalk is the creator of the Empathics—fictional futuristic beings who time-travel and shape-shift across the multiverse. For this project Woolfalk studied the Museum’s herbaria (plant specimens) and landscape painting collections, reinterpreting these artifacts—and their relation to American identity—from the perspective of the Empathics.”
Below is a list of other upcoming and ongoing shows with Woolfalk’s work.
Tumbling into Landscape Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ July 29, 2021 – August 15, 2022
Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM April 30, 2021 – April 30, 2022
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ September 12, 2021–December 3, 2023
Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion Moore Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design Philadelphia, PA October 2, 2021 – December 4, 2021
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY October 16, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Digital Combines Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA January 8, 2022 – March 5, 2022
Image: Saya Woolfalk with Birthing a New Sky, mixed media collage with vinyl wallpaper and flooring, at the Newark Museum of Art