Dreams Deferred: New Exhibition On View At Syracuse University Art Museum

by Contributor | February 15, 2023 2:00 pm

SYRACUSE – Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art is now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum. The exhibition examines the idea of freedom in the United States as expressed in art, including its possibilities, its oversights, its uneven implementation, and its attacks on Indigenous sovereignty.

Curated by incoming Master of Arts students in art history and under the direction of Associate Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition will be on view through May 14.

Featuring work drawn from the Syracuse University Art Museum’s extensive permanent collection, including newly acquired artwork, the exhibition highlights how structural inequities, oppressive histories, disenfranchisement, and degradation of personhood are variously perpetuated, elided, and disrupted in U.S. art.

Dreams Deferred also highlights art that advocates for equality, accentuates personhood, and unmasks structural racism and histories of misogyny, enslavement, dispossession—violences that are still felt today.

Associate Professor Scott states, “It was a pleasure to guide this project, as the first-year graduate students in art history honed their research, writing, and interpretive skills throughout the fall semester. The student-curators of Dreams Deferred offer compelling interpretations of artworks produced in the United States from the 19th century to the present, addressing the possibilities, exclusions, and failures of concepts of freedom in the United States.”

Featured Event:

Lunchtime Lecture: Dreams Deferred tour with the curators March 23, 1:00 p.m. at Syracuse University Art Museum

About the Museum:

The Syracuse University Art Museum is a teaching museum located on campus that acquires and preserves important works of art and uses its extensive collection to serve as a museum-laboratory for exploration, experimentation, and discussion. The Museum strives to foster diverse and inclusive perspectives by uniting students across campus with each other and the local and global community, engaging with artwork to bring us together and examining the forces that keep us apart. It welcomes all visitors to experience its exhibitions and public programs that promote original research, creative thinking, and increased mindfulness. The Syracuse University Art Museum is always free to all. For more information and to plan your visit, go to museum.syr.edu.

Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu, July 4th 2020, 2021.Museum purchase.

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