Against Outer Space

  • Against Outer Space. Picture by Rob Reynolds
    Rob Reynolds, New Sun, 2025; Acrylic, oil and alkyd paint on canvas in welded aluminum artists frame; 48 3/4 x 60 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by CC Young.

Curated by Associate Professor of Anthropology Valerie Olson and Assistant Curator Zachary Korol Gold

November 15, 2025– February 28, 2026
opening reception: Saturday, November 15

“Against Outer Space” engages an ancient paradox: Earthly life unfolds against and within unearthly space. Artists in the exhibition present this paradox both with and against dominant technoscientific ideas about outer space. In doing so they work otherwise to government agendas, military-industrial powers, and space capitalism. For these artists, outer space is not separate. It is an intimate extension of ancestry and becoming. Its vibrant outsideness allows new questions, new recognitions, new ways of being. Through their work we enter open space.

Against Outer Space is supported by The Beall Family Foundation and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. 

Dates: 
November 15, 2025 to February 28, 2026
Opening Reception: 
November 15, 2025 - 2:00pm
Curated By: 
Associate Professor of Anthropology Valerie Olson and Assistant Curator Zachary Korol Gold