Steven Cuffie, Louis Eilshemius,
Noah Jemison, Diamond Stingily,
Clara Tice, Faye Wei Wei, and Idris Young
On view: June 24 - August 7, 2026
Opening reception: June 24, 6-8PM
Summer lingers in the imagination not as a season but as an atmosphere of incipience. A period in which the future seems unusually close, and the world appears ripe with significance. Curiously, these feelings transcend the calendar months and unfold throughout a lifetime, returning whenever ordinary reality seems charged with possibility.
Beauty is often tied to a similar experience. It is never entirely contained by the thing in which it appears. It points elsewhere. It makes the world seem near while rendering the present strangely unstable. Desire, fantasy, and dreams emerge from these encounters. Beauty carries with it the promise of another life, another horizon, another way of being in the world.
In Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding (1946), Frankie Addams passes through a "green and crazy summer" during which, as McCullers writes, she was "by dog days five feet five and three-quarter inches tall."
Clara Tice
Nude with Butterfly, ca. 1920s
Oil on canvas
20 × 25 in. (50.8 × 63.5 cm)
Clara Tice
Nude with Dog, ca. 1920s
Oil on canvas
28 × 20 in. (71.1 × 50.8 cm)
Diamond Stingily
Kaa (a woman who sheds her skin and says thank you sincerely), 2019
Kanekalon hair
Dimensions variable
199.5 ft. in length (60.8 m in length)
Faye Wei Wei
Turgid, Tulip Tongued, Black Flower Trumpets, 2026
Oil on canvas
60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.9 cm)
Faye Wei Wei
Swell the Bones that Hollow and Hold, 2026
Oil on herringbone linen
28 × 34 in. (71.1 × 86.4 cm)
Faye Wei Wei
This Night that Polishes Horse Shoes, 2026
Oil on herringbone linen
21 3/4 × 34 in. (55.2 × 86.4 cm)
Noah Jemison
Nut Consuming Osiris, 2013
Encaustic on canvas
60 × 42 in. (152.4 × 106.7 cm)
Idris Young
Desire Line, 2025
Oil and iron powder on canvas
36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm)
Idris Young
Waiting, 2025
Oil, encaustic, and baby's breath flowers on canvas
32 × 48 in. (81.3 × 121.9 cm)
Idris Young
Inyenzane, 2025
Oil on linen
24 × 16 in. (61 × 40.6 cm)
Louis Eilshemius
Date Palm Trees, ca. 1916-1917
Oil on masonite
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Louis Eilshemius
Two Figures in a Seascape, n.d.
Oil on paper
7 × 8 in. (17.8 × 20.3 cm), image
16 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (41.9 × 44.5 cm), framed
Steven Cuffie
Untitled (Hazel on Bed), c. 1977–79
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Unique AP
Steven Cuffie
Untitled (Hazel on Bed), c. 1977–79
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Unique AP
Steven Cuffie
Untitled (Hazel on Bed), c. 1977–79
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Unique AP
Steven Cuffie
Untitled (Hazel on Bed), c. 1977–79
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Unique AP
Steven Cuffie
Untitled (Hazel on Bed), c. 1977–79
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Unique AP
Steven Cuffie (1949–2014) was born in North Carolina and lived and worked in Baltimore, Maryland, for most of his life. Employed as a photographer for the City of Baltimore, he documented civic events, infrastructure, and crime scenes. Following his death in 2014, his children, Marcus and Morgan Cuffie, uncovered a substantial archive of previously unknown photographs, including hundreds of portraits from the 1970s and 1980s.
Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864–1941) was born in Arlington, New Jersey. Eilshemius studied in New York and Paris before settling in New York. Known for his dreamlike landscapes, poetic allegories, and visionary depictions of the female figure, he was championed by Marcel Duchamp in the 1910s and 1920s. His work is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others.
Noah Jemison (b. 1944) was born in Birmingham, Alabama and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Stanley Museum of Art. In 2022–23, his work was featured in Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art.
Diamond Stingily (b. 1990) was born in Chicago, Illinois and lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the New Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Hammer Museum.
Clara Tice (1888–1973) was born in New York City, where she lived and worked throughout her life. Associated with the bohemian and proto-Dada circles of Greenwich Village, she became known as the “Queen of Greenwich Village.” Her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New-York Historical Society, among others.
Faye Wei Wei (b. 1994) born in London and lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2026.
Idris Young (b. 2004) was born in Buffalo, New York and lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.
