Shared Space: A New Era,
Photographs from the Bank of America Collection

Schmidt Center Gallery: February 14 – April 11, 2020

Opening Event for Shared History & Shared Space
Thursday, February 13, 2020 • 7-8:30 pm

Press Release
Artist Bios and Press
Artist Image Sheet

 

Shared Space: A New Era, Photographs from the Bank of America Collection acts as a time capsule of our era, traversing our social landscape from 1987 to the present through photographs, videos and other time-based media curated entirely from the Bank of America Collection. In 1987, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and that year serves as this exhibition’s point of departure. Along with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the attendant collapse of the Soviet Union, these events marked the end of the Cold War and ushered in a new era of globalization. At the same time, the Internet was on the verge of widespread usage and would be commercialized in 1995. Through Shared Space, we see artists as they grapple with the complexities of these revolutionary times.

 

 

Detail shots of Fanny Allie, Man Bare Feet, 2018; Liz Collins Skins 2010-19; Barb Hunt #Me Too Tarana Burke, 2015;
Gabrielle Fulterer & Christine Scherrer As if, 2013