2024 Annual Report

On a low pedestal in the foreground, seven standing lamps are conjoined by a single ring-shaped lampshade. A neat coil of pale cord sits near the base of each lamp. The sculpture is flanked, in the background, by two chevron-shaped wall pieces. The one on the left is dark, while the one on the right is pale.

At Left: 18 # 2, 2023. At Center: PROMESA, 2021. At Right: 18 #1, 2023. Installation view: Carlos Reyes: 18, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2023. Courtesy the artist, Derosia, New York, and Soft Opening, London. Photo: Dario Lasagni

 

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List Projects 27: fields harrington and Nancy Valladares

July 20 - October 29, 2023

“Both artists center research, and their works and related inquiries take a critical eye to overlooked technological and industrial histories. Each has also employed citizen science to shed light on the enduring toxicity of various colonial projects and the extractive processes that underpin racial and fossil capitalism (the ideas that racialized exploitation and carbon-intensive development directly support capital accumulation).” 
–Artdaily

A white walled room with a tan wooden table and four tan wooden chairs in the middle of the room. To the right side of the table there is a wooden pedestal with a gray Plexiglas cube on top. There is a black framed drawing hung on the wall to the left of the pedestal. A row of eight test tubes are hung onto the wall to the left of the drawing.

Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery

August 29–September 17, 2023

"I love the idea that when you see a piece of art, you share the artist's vision. But also by setting this piece up yourself, it's almost as if you're bringing a piece of your own vision to the artwork." 
– Tommaso Salvatori, Graduate Student in the Master of Business Analytics program at MIT

Installation view with framed artworks lining the walls floor to ceiling.

Carlos Reyes: 18

October 27, 2023–March 10, 2024

"The graffiti here includes hearts and initials of couples, names, places (Istanbul, London, India, Palermo, Trinidad, VNZLA [Venezuela], Portugal, Colombia, Cuba, and Sri Lanka), and sexual come-ons (“Any age, Any Race”). “Live free,” one carving reads. It’s not just the words though—the way they’re carved into the wood is evocative of touch." 
– Greg Cook for Wonderland

On a low pedestal in the foreground, seven standing lamps are conjoined by a single ring-shaped lampshade. A neat coil of pale cord sits near the base of each lamp. The sculpture is flanked, in the background, by two chevron-shaped wall pieces. The one on the left is dark, while the one on the right is pale.

List Projects 28: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin

November 16, 2023–February 11, 2024

"Mirroring, or the absence of a mirror, is a throughline in this exhibition—from TJ’s cameraless (and thus mirrorless) phytograms to the mirror incorporated in Sophie’s DIY projector. Also, within the gallery your respective drawings are hung back-to-back, inversely mirroring each other." 
– Moira Sims for Boston Art Review

A makeshift projector sits on a wooden table, accompanied by two matching chairs. Two cords and a strip of material are attached to the device, which projects a faint circle of light onto the back wall. On the right and in the background, two floor-to-ceiling poles with drawings attached and a rectangular, more conventional projected image are visible.

List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV

March 7–June 23, 2024

"Venerable artists who double as crackerjack museum directors, Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV somehow haven’t compromised in either realm. The two continue to mine the Massachusetts South Coast’s industrial histories in both their solo practices and Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA), the institution they cofounded." 
– Jack Radley for BOMB

A white gallery with five artworks on display. On the left wall hangs a gold tapestry depicting two figures, one standing and one kneeling. Two small creature-like sculptures made of metal and fabric sit on low pedestals. In the center of the room is a vertical wooden bathtub sculpture on metal supports. A large black frame-like wooden sculpture hangs on the back wall.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us

April 4–July 28, 2024

"Memory, history, culture and the land lie at the center of that installation, titled Only sounds that tremble through us, and the artists’ new exhibition—of the same name—at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, which represents a major evolution in Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s work." 
– Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews

Freestanding metal panels are scattered across a dark gallery, with drawings and saturated abstract images mounted to them. A tinted window on the left emits a bright purple glow. Small banners hanging from the ceiling contain abstracted silhouettes of plants. Three video projections are visible in the background; the central one shows a close view of a thorny green plant.

Hana Miletić: Soft Services

April 4–August 4, 2024

"Weaving, knitting, felting, and crocheting are characterized by slowness — but, it’s worth noting, by suppleness and pliability as well. It is the value of these qualities of fibrous material that Hana Miletić illuminates in her show Soft Services." 
– Helen Miller and Michael Strand for The Arts Fuse

On the left, two cylindrical orange net-like sculptures are displayed. One is much smaller than the other; the smaller one incorporates an inner green component. On the far right, a large brown tapestry hangs from the ceiling. Blue fiber strips grid the piece with some of the strips dangling onto the floor. In the background on the right, a small, yellow caution tape fiber sculpture is bunched up dangling off the wall and onto the floor.

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