Adam Milner
Curtis Welteroth
Limb Around Limb
December 3–December 31, 2022
Opening reception Saturday, December 3, 3–5 PM
By LA Warman
Adam Milner, Untitled (from Emma), 2018, rose petals, archival tape, and acrylic on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches
Adam Milner
Adam Milner is an artist and writer whose practice centers the accumulation and preservation of everyday leftovers. Culled from various processes of living—from sleeping and eating, to walking, working, having relationships, and circulating blood—intimate fragments are gathered and recontextualized, taking form as sculpture, drawing, intervention, text, and image. Employing idiosyncratic display methods borrowed from a range of sources, Milner challenges expectations and hierarchies embedded in these systems. Parts are combined and recombined in the artist’s home studio, resulting in archives or assemblages that offer new ways of considering material and social worlds around us. As lines between public and private are blurred, the artist flirts with confession and considers the commodification of personal moments. Milner’s work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, public space, and at home. Recently, Art21 highlighted the artist’s practice in the film Adam Milner Takes Care of the Details. Milner lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Curtis Welteroth, In The Hushed Silence of That Moment, The Moment of Death…, 2022, oil on linen over panel, 24 x 18 inches
Curtis Welteroth
Curtis Welteroth (b. 1994, They/Them) received their BFA from Kutztown University in 2016 and their MFA from Yale University in 2021. Their artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. Recent exhibitions of Welteroth’s work include Until Soon, a solo show at Meredith Rosen Gallery (New York), inclusion in Salamander at Wesleyan University (Nebraska), Staycation at a Lower East Side AirBnB (New York), and their thesis group show, In Praise of Shadows at Lyles & King Gallery (New York). In 2018 Welteroth was also a participant in the Pilotenkuche Artist Residency in Leipzig, Germany. They currently live and work in Brooklyn, New York. Instagram: @curtiswelteroth
Through a myriad of media and dimensions, my practice interrogates the histories and contemporaneity of a queer body politic in relation to the Gothic and horror genre. Recently, my work has been investigating the expansive meanings and representations of Death; Ego Death, la petite mort, Life Recall, destrudo, memento mori, and so on. Death is not solely relegated to our individual mortalities, but rather lingers in every component of our existence. I find that grand presence very radical and comforting.
Installation photography by Yael Eban & Matthew Gamber