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Diane Arbus, Dan Flavin, Diamanda Galás, Peter Huttinger, Le Corbusier, Richard Prince, Christina Ramberg, Terence Smith, Charles Wiessen, Sue Williams, and Yourba: Igbada Style

STEW addresses the tensions and incongruities that exist between art objects, their context, and a particular moment in time. The works of art chosen for this exhibit are emblematic of various strategies in art-making, which, when situated in relation to one another, forced agitated conjugations. To counteract tendencies toward hierarchical or cohesive categorizations, STEW intentionally overloads the relationships between the works, allowing for independent readings or unexpected connections to be made.

Including works by Dan Flavin, Diamanda Galás, Peter Huttinger, Le Corbusier, Richard Prince, Christina Ramberg, Terence Smith, Charles Wiessen, Sue Williams, and others, STEW was the result of a search for intersections between disparate visions, with the goal of finding an adequate curatorial structure in which to examine the contemporary state of art. The exhibition initiated a malleable game of consensual and dictatorial methods (not withholding dissenting opinions), which forced interactions between varied curatorial premises and actual objects.

STEW was a celebration of collisions—a sutured collection of objects that coalesced for only a brief time. Whether or not certain works of art are to be bruised in this context is left for the viewer to decide.