New Tang Exhibition Examines Families

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is presenting “Family Forms”—an exhibition that invites visitors to consider how families are made, remade, and represented—from Nov. 15 until April 12.

Photographs, artists’ books, collage, sculpture, and video provide visitors ways to explore the spaces between ideas about “the family” and the lived experiences of families. Much of the exhibition draws from the Tang collection. The installation includes a domestic vignette built from thrifted frames displaying found photographs gifted to the Tang from Peter J. Cohen. Arranged above a historic mantelpiece, the scene turns the gallery into a living room where family pictures naturally gather. 

Artists with work on view include Julie Chen, Mike Disfarmer, For Freedoms, Jesse Freidin, Erika Kapin, Ann Lovett, Tracey Moffatt, PaJaMa, Milton Rogovin, Joachim Schmid, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Laurie Simmons, and Danielle St. Laurent, among others.

Visitors are invited to contribute to the exhibition by submitting their own family photographs via an online form (app.youform.com/forms/nlxjibua). These images will be shown in the gallery on a digital frame throughout the run of the exhibition.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

The Tang Museum, located on the Skidmore College campus at 815 North Broadway, is open noon–5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. For more information, visit tang.skidmore.edu.