03/11/2026
Please join us at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins on Saturday, March 21 at 1pm for an exhibition walkthrough of Proposal for a Monument with artist Yashua Klos and Tracy L. Adler, Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
Featuring a new body of woodblock print collages, Proposal for a Monument expands upon Klos’s earlier exploration of survival strategies to invoke presence itself as a monument of resistance. History has shown that monuments, as both structures and symbols, are not infallible; what then, Klos asks, might replace them? The exhibition leaves the answer as an open-ended proposal, drawing from a framework of monumentality that transcends fixed conditions or static forms. At a moment when Black and brown bodies are increasingly erased from public space, Klos envisions a radical “hyper-visibility” of marginalized individuals constructing images in their own likeness.
Exhibition Walkthrough
March 21 at 1pm
Free and open to the public; no RSVP required
Tracy L. Adler is the Johnson-Pote Director of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College where she curated Yashua Klos’s first solo museum exhibition Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR in 2022. She has curated major exhibitions and edited accompanying publications, among them Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature (2014), Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe (2016), Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play (2017), Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day (2018), Elias Sime: Tightrope (2019), Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine (2021), and Rhona Bitner: Resound (2023). In 2017, Adler was awarded first prize by the Association of Art Museum Curators for the publication accompanying the exhibition Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, and in 2020, the exhibition catalogue she edited Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day was shortlisted by the College Art Association for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.