Artist Reimagines Tang Mezzanine: Installation Centered on Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and The Cosmos

SARATOGA SPRINGS —A new exhibition, Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves, opens at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College Oct. 21. 

Molina, an artist who works across media and disciplines with an emphasis on care and social justice, will make all new work for the exhibition, including a rug, a bench, textile artworks, papier mâché sculpture, and papier mâché furniture to be created in collaboration with Skidmore College students. 

Molina is the fifth artist to transform the Tang Mezzanine into a community hangout space, breaking down traditional barriers between visitors and museums by inviting tactile engagement with the art and the use of the gallery for conversation and contemplation. 

Over the course of the display for two years, Molina’s site-specific installation will evolve while remaining centered around the four elements—earth, air, water, fire—and a fifth constituent, the cosmos. 

Molina’s exhibition will also include work by invited artists, bringing together multiple perspectives.

The exhibition will open on Saturday, October 21, at 10:30 a.m., with One Only Earth: A Grounding Ritual. The public event will include a ritual ceremony in the exhibition before moving outside to welcome the elements and create a sacred space.

 Admission to the Tang is free. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu.