Exhibitions

INSTEAD OF

Vanderbilt University Museum of Art / 1220 21st Ave S. September 19 - December 13th (Reception: September 19 5:00pm - 6:30pm)

Sheila Hicks, Barbara Rossi, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Hannah Quinlan, Rosie Hastings

Why do artists do what they do, instead of something else?

Instead Of displays major works from the VUMA collection for the first time: a 28-foot tapestry by the fiber artist Sheila Hicks; prints and drawings by the Chicago Imagist Barbara Rossi; drawings and an embroidery by the jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant; and a 10-foot fresco by the British duo Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings. Drawing on the title of a work by Salvant, Instead Of explores artistic decision-making through materiality, scope, and scale. Overlapping themes in the artworks and resonances between the practices that produced them invite viewers to find interconnections and ask, what else if not this?

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Image: Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Siblys #2, 2024, fresco on wood panel, 64 3/8 x 124 1/2 x 3 inches, 2025.003.0001