Now Hear Me Out…: Now Hear Me Out…

Don’t feel completely comfortable with contemporary art? Art is better with friends. Join Associate Curator Andrea Alvarez and local teacher and comedian Kevin Thomas, Jr. as they playfully discuss what they see, what they think they see, and what it all means.

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• Kevin Thomas, Jr., Comedian
• Andrea Alvarez, Associate Curator

Sculpture made of plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil - "Lava Lites"

Theaster Gates

American, born 1973

Civil Tapestry 5, 2012

Decommissioned fire hoses on oil cloth mounted on wood panel
58 x 104 x 4 inches (147.32 x 264.2 x 10.2 cm)
Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange, 2014
2014:3a-b

© Theaster Gates

Long horizontal panel of firehoses sewed together with the a gradient of the yellow being brighter/cleaner from the left that slowly fades into darker/more weathered tones towards the right

Ed Clark

American, 1926-2019

Untitled (New York Series), 1991

Acrylic on canvas
81 1/2 x 74 inches (207.01 x 187.96 cm)
Gift of Mrs. George A. Forman, by exchange, 2018
2018:8

© Ed Clark

Painted oval and semicircular forms and horizontal bands in different shades of pinks, greens and beige

Haim Steinbach

American, born Israel, 1944

ultra red #1, 1986

Plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil "Lava Lites"
2/2
65 x 76 x 19 inches (165.1 x 193 x 48.3 cm)
Purchased jointly by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum with funds provided by the Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange and Albert H. Tracy Fund, by exchange and by Carnegie Museum of Art with funds provided by the A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2019
2014:3a-b

© Haim Steinbach

Sculpture featuring plastic laminated wood shelf, seventeen red enameled cast iron pots, six plastic and metal digital clocks and four glass, metal and red colored oil "Lava Lites" Edition:

Doris Salcedo

Colombian, born 1958

Untitled, 1998

Wood, cement, and metal
74 x 44 x 21 1/2 inches (188 x 111.8 x 54.6 cm)
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 1999
1999:9

© Doris Salcedo

A brown wooden cabinet that is partially stained and has unfinished work on the front top and bottom left cabinet

Eva Hesse

American, born Germany, 1936-1970

[no title], 1970

Fiberglass over wire mesh, latex over cloth over wire
74 x 44 x 21 1/2 inches (188 x 111.8 x 54.6 cm)
Box: 12 x 9 x 4 1/2 inches (30.5 x 22.9 x 11.4 cm); Cord: 78 inches (198.1 cm)
Elisabeth H. Gates and Sherman S. Jewett Funds, 1978
1978:5

© Estate of Eva Hesse

A beige fiberglass rectangle opening on a white wall with a red wire protruding from the center and reaching the cement floor.

Agnes Martin

American, born Canada, 1912-2004

The Tree, 1965

Acrylic and graphite on canvas
72 x 72 inches (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976
K1976:2

© Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York