Guided Exhibition Experience with Kris Rumman and Alpesh Patel

Proof of vaccination and masks required for attendance.

Join us for an in-person walk through of our current exhibition, Till Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown, on view in the Robert Lehman Gallery. This will be lead by the exhibition's artist, Kris Rumman, and Alpesh Kantilal Patel, an art historian and critic. Their conversation will touch upon the concepts behind the exhibition, the ideas behind the individual works included in it, as well as Rumman’s engagement with glass and other materials. 

Kris Rumman is a Palestinian-American artist who creates sculpture, performance, and installations that act as impermanent fugitives. Appearing as temporary inhabitants and curious students of its visitors, her work often uses mirror and reflection to track, surveille, guide, and comply with its witnesses. Captivated by the materials of architecture, power (authority) and chance (Inshallah), her work is migratory, situationally responsive, and inextricably linked to the geopolitics where she lives. Rumman has received international awards and grants, including support from The Velocity Fund through Temple Contemporary and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, and recognition from the Glass Arts Society, naming her the 2019 Saxe Emerging Artist. Kris earned her MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BFA from Bowling Green State University. 

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an associate professor of contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His art historical scholarship, curating, and criticism reflect his queer, anti-racist, and transnational approach to contemporary art.  He is the author of Productive failure: writing queer transnational South Asian art histories (2017), editor of numerous exhibition catalogs, as well as co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art’s special issue commemorating Okwui Enwezor (2021) and the anthology Storytellers of Art Histories (2022).  His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Arts Council England, National Endowment of Humanities, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and New York University. A frequent contributor of exhibition reviews to artforum.com, he writes for frieze, Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic.com.  In 2022, he will be a fellow at Loughborough University’s Institute of Advanced Studies, where he will work on his next monograph, Transregional Entanglements: Sexual Artistic Geographies.

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