The way you look tonight curated by Philip Leonard Ocampo

Raúl Aguilar Canela, Vida Beyer, Olivia Klevorn, Karice Mitchell, Ryan Danny Owen, Aden Solway⁠⁠, and additional programming by Josi Smit⁠

January 19, 2021 - April 17, 2021

Essay by Philip Leonard Ocampo

Curated by Philip Leonard Ocampo⁠

Raúl Aguilar Canela, Vida Beyer, Olivia Klevorn, Karice Mitchell, Ryan Danny Owen, and Aden Solway⁠⁠

⁠Additional programming by Josi Smit⁠

January 19 – February 13, 2021⁠

As an embodied sensation, nostalgia allows that which we recall fondly to emerge again, briefly invoking moments of bittersweet familiarity in our daily lives.The malleable nature of this phenomena—its ability to interpret time and idealize memory— is what assembles the works of The way you look tonight. Bringing together text, drawing, painting, sculpture, video and image-based works across virtual and physical exhibition platforms, this exhibition presents artworks that seek to explore nostalgia as a complicated method of both remembering and forgetting. Celebrating, subverting and reimagining how popular culture, generational experiences, and documented histories influence our personal and collective archives, the works of this exhibition are interested in reevaluating the complex relationships we have with our pasts; the ones we’ve lived and the ones we haven’t.⁠

Documentation by Alison Postma

: The way you look tonight, 2021. Installation view.

: The way you look tonight, 2021. Installation view, works by Vida Beyer Raúl Aguilar Canela, Olivia Klevorn, Ryan Danny Owen, Karice Mitchell and Aden Solway in view. Photo

: Aden Solway,Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber.

: The way you look tonight, 2021. Installation view, works by Vida Beyer Raúl Aguilar Canela, Olivia Klevorn, Ryan Danny Owen, Karice Mitchell and Aden Solway in view. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: The way you look tonight, 2021. Installation view, works by Vida Beyer Raúl Aguilar Canela, Olivia Klevorn, Ryan Danny Owen, Karice Mitchell and Aden Solway in view. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Center: Aden Solway, Composition in Three Parts (Tier, Mirror, Eagle). Foreground: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Left: Ryan Danny Owen, MIDNIGHT CALLERS (1-877-957-7818), 2021 and select rubbings, various years. Right: Raúl Aguilar Canela, 4EML, 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, MIDNIGHT CALLERS (1-877-957-7818), 2021 and select rubbings, various years. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Partition, 2020 (The Freshman, 1990). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Take It All Off, 2020 (PlayGirl, Yearbook 1976). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Hats Off, 2020 ( Torso, June 1989) Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Scott, 2019-2020 (Honcho, Nov 1985) Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Tough Guy, 2020 (Honcho, Jan 1984). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Phil, 2020 ( Mandate, Nov 1983). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Jockstraps, 2020 ( Jock, Dec 1989). Photo credit: ALison Postma

: Ryan Danny Owen, Sheer, 2020 ( Bolt, Oct 1990). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Raúl Aguilar Canela, 4EML, 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Raúl Aguilar Canela, 4EML, 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in Three Parts (Tier, Mirror, Eagle). Materials: Depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses. 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Left: Aden Solway, Composition in Three Parts (Tier, Mirror, Eagle). Materials: Depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses. 2020. Right: Aden Solway, Composition in One Part (A Malapropism) Materials: steel, hardware, enamel paint, sewn cotton, sewn poly-cotton, mother’s shirt (1960s), dry-cleaning receipt (2020), depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses, Home & Garden Magazine “Color Guide” (1978), tin, quilted fabric, rubber. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in Three Parts (Tier, Mirror, Eagle). Materials: Depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses. 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Aden Solway, Composition in Three Parts (Tier, Mirror, Eagle). Materials: Depression glass vessels, cocktail glasses. 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Vida Beyer, Excerpt From: Night Moves (2016-2021). Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Olivia Klevorn, Nostalgic, Black, and Queer, 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Olivia Klevorn, Nostalgic, Black, and Queer, 2020. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Left: Olivia Klevorn, Nostalgic, Black, and Queer, 2020. Right: Works by Karice Mitchell in view. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, she is soft, she is light, her name is Venus”, 2021. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, she is soft, she is light, her name is Venus”, 2021. Ph

: Karice Mitchell, she is soft, she is light, her name is Venus”, 2021. Ph

: Karice Mitchell, she is soft, she is light, her name is Venus”, 2021. Ph

: Karice Mitchell, she is soft, she is light, her name is Venus”, 2021. Ph

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: Karice Mitchell, Archival material from Black Legs, Black Heat, Players Nasty, Fotorama and Knave. Photo credit: Alison Postma

: The way you look tonight, 2021. Installation view, works by Vida Beyer Raúl Aguilar Canela, Olivia Klevorn, Ryan Danny Owen, Karice Mitchell and Aden Solway in view. Photo credit: Alison Postma