Exhibitions
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EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS: ON VIEW
The Momentary brings exhibitions and artworks from around the world to the space to share more work by contemporary artists and display a broad story of today’s visual art.
![Kristine Potter, The Medium, 2017; from Kristine Potter: Dark Waters (Aperture, 2023). © 2023 Kristine Potter Black and white photo of a woman with her eyes closed and long hair framing her face down to her waist](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/12/The-Medium_72dpi-16x10.jpg)
Dark Waters | Kristine Potter
MAY 11 – OCT 13, 2024
In Dark Waters, a tour de force of Southern Gothic Noir, Kristine Potter reinvents a centuries-old genre with coolness and clarity. With this recent collection of seductive and darkly brooding photographs, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic mythos found in the popular imagination of “murder ballads”—traditional songs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that often end in death and despair.
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Read more![Awol Erizku, Ask the Dust, Rolling Stones, 2016; from Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax (Aperture, 2023). Floral design: Sarah Erizku. Courtesy of the artist](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/04/Ask-the-Dust-Rolling-Stones_2000-16x10.jpg)
Mystic Parallax | Awol Erizku
MAY 25 – OCT 13, 2024
Encompassing photography, film, painting, sculpture, and installation, Awol Erizku’s work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip-hop vernacular to iconic symbols from across history, including the Pan-African flag and the image of Nefertiti. Erizku’s vision is expansive, drawing on traditions of spirituality, Surrealism, and Conceptualism to create uniquely powerful art.
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FooFoo | FriendsWithYou
JUN 24 – DEC 1, 2024
FooFoo is a character that represents nature and plants as seen in the flower atop their head. As part of the FriendsWithYou collective’s new OCEAN universe, FooFoo is a sentient Al from the future, sent to aid humanity towards its best version yet, and invites viewers to consider their relationship to themselves and the wonders of our world and all its elements.
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OUTDOOR ARTWORKS: ON VIEW
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Context Shift
A 11,000-square-foot mural by artist Carlos Rosales-Silva on the exterior walls of the Momentary’s parking garage.
The composition highlights a core pillar of Rosales-Silva’s work: how individuals interpret color as contextual. The vibrant colors on the mural are inverted to represent how context shifts; colors in the background on one side are in the foreground on the other side of the mural. The mirroring design of the mural is meant to shift perspectives on how the design elements blend together.
The shapes Rosales-Silva draws are abstract combinations of architecture and landscape, two forms that are often categorized in an oppositional binary. Rosales-Silva says that binary does not exist.
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![Leo Villareal, Buckyball, 2012, aluminum tubing clad with LED lights atop aluminum plinth, 30 ft. x 144 in. x 144 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.3. © Leo Villareal.](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/03/TGM00169_2000-16x10.jpg)
Buckyball
Leo Villareal sculpts with light. The artist creates ever-changing displays of moving light and color using LED bulbs and computer software that Villareal himself designs. Named to honor the theorist and engineer Buckminster Fuller, Buckyball features two nested geometric spheres shaped like a Carbon 60 molecule. The structure features LED tubes capable of producing 16 million distinct colors.
Buckyball operates from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. The light display changes from the white-light daytime sequence to a vibrantly colored evening sequence shortly after dark.
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riffing Bentonville
This mural features animated drawings, or as artist Katie Merz calls them, “urban hieroglyphics.” The design of riffing bentonville speaks to the culture of Northwest Arkansas, referencing the outdoor recreation industry, the Momentary, and the region’s vibrant arts scene. Created with high-intensity paint markers, Merz and her crew made this work entirely freehanded and spontaneously. They were “quick to the draw” and completed the wall in a week and a half.
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![Yinka Shonibare, Wind Sculpture (SG) VIII Fiberglass sculpture that depicts a piece of fabric caught in a gust of wind](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/12/ACAM3358_800-16x10.jpg)
Wind Sculpture (SG) VIII
In Wind Sculpture (SG) VIII, artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA created the dynamic movement of a piece of fabric caught in a gust of wind, rendered in a gravity-defying, solid fiberglass form at monumental scale. Evocative of the sails of ships that crossed the Atlantic to connect nations through the exchange of ideas, products, and people, its form captures histories that can be inspiring, brutal, and complex. It speaks to how the opening of the seas led not only to the transatlantic slave trade and colonization, but also gave rise to the dynamic contributions of Africans and African heritage worldwide.
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![You Belong Here by Tavares Strachan Red neon sign saying You Belong Here on the side of a building](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/strachan-you-belong-here-800-16x10.jpg)
YOU BELONG HERE
Tavares Strachan’s monumental neon sculpture, You Belong Here, is installed on the east-facing exterior wall of the Momentary, stretching 78 feet across and 25 feet high. This work is part of an ongoing series of site-responsive neon sculptures, and initiates a dialogue about how we define place and create a sense of belonging in our community.
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Planck
Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, destroys to create. His large-scale, detailed compositions are achieved by carving, drilling, and using explosive charges to tear away at exterior walls. The art intervention devised for the Momentary took this technique and gave it a performative edge by staging the incision of the institution’s logo on the building’s façade. Playing with the concepts of moment/momentary, the title, Planck, alludes directly to the connection between the briefness of the explosion that created the final work, and the smallest unit of time, known as “Planck Time”.
Mural by VHILS, production JUSTKIDS.
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Sway
In 2018, Oklahoma-based artist Addie Roanhorse became the first artist commissioned to create a work of art for the Momentary. Her arrow pattern artwork, called Sway, is featured on the exterior glass of the Tower, the Container, and main entryway. A member of the Osage Nation, Roanhorse took inspiration from Osage attire to create the pattern, paying homage to the history of the land around the Momentary. With this artwork, we invite all to think about the Indigenous peoples with a connection to Northwest Arkansas.
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![Above and Below - MO design artwork on paned glass on the side of the momentary parking garage](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/Above-and-Below-MO-16x10.jpg)
ABOVE & BELOW
Chad “Nish” Earles (Caddo) designed the glass scrim titled Above & Below that is located on the southwest and southeast corners of the structure. The design entails a pattern providing cultural reference to the Indigenous peoples of Arkansas and the land the Momentary currently occupies. The pattern references designs found in pottery created by ancestors of the Caddo Nation. The name of the design, Above & Below, recognizes that the Caddo are still here today, above and below the ground.
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EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS: UPCOMING
![Double Pomeranian, 2012, © Dolly Faibyshev Small fluffy dog on leash stands in front of women's legs looking up at the women](https://momentary-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/12/Double-Pomeranian_2000-16x10.jpg)
BEST IN SHOW: PETS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
NOV 23, 2024 – APR 13, 2025
Through Best in Show, Momentary visitors will have the opportunity to explore the role that furry (and feathered) friends have played in culture and how they stand in as representations of status, power, loyalty, compassion and companionship through the perspectives of 25 global artists.
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