On View: May 1-May 31
The Kitchen at Westbeth (163B Bank Street, 4th Floor Loft)
Opening day hours:
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 2025, 4–6pm
Time:
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm (Free) | Performances at variable, unannounced times during gallery hours on May 9, 10, 17, 24, and 31 (Free)
For this newly commissioned body of work, Gordon Hall continues their practice in sculpture and performance with an installation of functional furniture-like sculptures that support reclining bodies in unexpected ways.
Animated by a transgender politics that question the norms that govern embodied life, Hands and Knees extends Hall’s investigation into the politics of vulnerability and corporeal support. Performers demonstrate possible uses of the sculptures in weekly performances that emerge from Hall’s inquiry into the paradoxical interplay of vulnerability and liberation in moments of waiting.
Gordon Hall: Hands and Knees is organized by Matthew Lyons, Curator.
About Gordon Hall
Gordon Hall (1983, Boston) is an artist whose work encompasses sculpture, performance, and writing. Hall has had solo presentations at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, New York; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago; among other venues. Gordon Hall is represented by DOCUMENT in North America and Hua International in Europe and Asia, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College.
FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS
The Kitchen’s programs are made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors, The Kitchen Global Council, Leadership Fund, and the Director’s Council, as well as through generous support from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Cowles Charitable Trust, The James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Music USA, The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, Ruth Foundation For The Arts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Simons Foundation, and Teiger Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and in part by public funds from the Manhattan Borough President, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
The Kitchen acknowledges the generous support provided by the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY). As a coalition of small to mid-sized multidisciplinary arts organizations, CANNY is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of arts nonprofits throughout New York.
For more information about CANNY, please visit https://can-ny.org/.