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Gallery Talk - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon, Vassar Class of 2026 and 2024 Ford Scholar/Pindyck Summer Fellow at the Loeb, discusses their current Spotlight exhibition, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley. The exhibition, organized in conjunction with Great Green Hope for the Urban Blues, complicates the myth of the Hudson Valley as a utopia, asking "Utopia for who?" The works within share the stories of people resisting White settlers’ attempts to craft the myth of the great green hope.

A grayscale photo of a person with a dark mustache and dark hair. The person is sitting in water next to some large tree roots and is not wearing a shirt.
Caleb Stein (British, active USA, b. 1994), Sanjay. The watering hole., from the series Down by the Hudson, 2020, gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist, class of 2017, in memory of Andrew Tallon and the class of 2017, 2021.47.20. © Caleb Stein