DENVER , Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clyfford Still Museum's (CSM) new guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds) , illuminates multiple competing desires held in constant tension within the Museum. Organized by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds, the exhibition draws deeply on CSM's collections.
Held Impermanence opens at 9 a.m. for Museum members and 12 p.
m. for the public on January 25 . According to Reynolds, the collection testifies to Still's ambitious attempt to keep his entire corpus intact.
The commitment to the integrity of that body of work allows viewers to see not only the acclaimed masterpieces but also paintings made in painful transitions and others that bear the scars of time. Artworks change over time; their materials carry the stain of what conservators describe as inherent vice. Viewers see paintings that need to rest and heal, bearing marks that suggest, through their surfaces, condition, and textures, metaphors of viscera, bile, and wounds.
In the Museum's six largest galleries, Reynolds's exhibition asks viewers how they view healing over time, respond with their bodies to this corpus, and how they might approach Still's achievements from a perspective that contends with his and their own senses of mortality—and with it, a shared desire to hold impermanence. "The exhibition is a poetic meditation on love, grief, and care manifest on the surfaces of Still's paint.
