Fall 2025 Exhibitions and Related Events

Nanette Carter, Eric N. Mack, Mimi Ọnụọha, and Veronica Ryan all carefully select materials for their respective abstract sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works. They use these often-unconventional materials to convey themes of personal identity, migration, history, the Black experience, political upheaval, fashion, architecture, and more. Visitors are invited to think about what these materials symbolize or communicate, form their own associations, and consider the cultural connections and significance of objects in their everyday lives.

Return to the Wex throughout the fall to explore these themes in depth with talks, film screenings, and performances.

IMAGE CAPTIONS
From left to right: Mimi Ọnụọha, Us, Aggregated 3.0, 2019 (still); courtesy of the artist. Eric N. Mack, There is No Other Way, 2022; silk and wool scarves, cotton apron, Irish linen, rope, ribbon, polyester, felt, cotton shirt, and wool, 128 x 88 in.; © Eric N. Mack; courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Morán Morán, Los Angeles. Nanette Carter, Cantilevered (On Stilts) #18, 2015; oil on Mylar, 77 x 63 in.; © Nanette Carter; courtesy of Berry Campbell, New York. Veronica Ryan, Cluster, 2021; eighteen bronze magnolia pods and fishing line, 43 5/16 x 6 11/16 x 3 1/8 in.; presented by the Contemporary Art Society through its Special Partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation, supported by Cathy Wills, 2022/23; © Veronica Ryan, OBE RA; courtesy of Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England, and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.