Devin T. Mays: In Concert #1, Hold, Weight

Devin T. Mays: In Concert #1, Hold, Weight

Exhibition
Hutchinson Courtyard
Add to Calendar 2024-04-09 17:00:00 2024-04-09 17:00:00 Devin T. Mays: In Concert #1, Hold, Weight Mays’s interdisciplinary practice is an exercise in wandering he often refers to as a practice-in-practice. Through sculpture and installation, sound, performance, and photography, Mays creates poetic gestures of observation and ritual, often anchored by objects and material fragments. On the occasion of Jessica Stockholder: For Events, Mays contributes a durational performance that considers temperamental objects and their transient materials, including time, labor, and air. Please note that audience members can come and go anytime throughout the two-hour performance. Mays has exhibited at gta exhibitions, Zürich; F, Houston; Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Sweetwater, Berlin; Belmacz, London; The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Regards, Chicago and The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry among others. Mays currently holds a fellowship with the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) and the Art Department at Rice University Hutchinson Courtyard Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Devin T. Mays (and Jessica Stockholder) during the course "Picturing Words/Writing Images" co-taught by Jessica Stockholder and Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy, 2016.

Mays’s interdisciplinary practice is an exercise in wandering he often refers to as a practice-in-practice. Through sculpture and installation, sound, performance, and photography, Mays creates poetic gestures of observation and ritual, often anchored by objects and material fragments. On the occasion of Jessica Stockholder: For Events, Mays contributes a durational performance that considers temperamental objects and their transient materials, including time, labor, and air. Please note that audience members can come and go anytime throughout the two-hour performance.

Mays has exhibited at gta exhibitions, Zürich; F, Houston; Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Sweetwater, Berlin; Belmacz, London; The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Regards, Chicago and The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry among others. Mays currently holds a fellowship with the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) and the Art Department at Rice University