Assembly 2022: Time and Attention
First Floor Galleries, Experimental and Truland Galleries
Participating Artists: Merryn Omotayo Alaka & Sam Fresquez (AZ), MyLoan Dinh (NC), Erika Lynne Hanson (AZ), Priya Suresh Kambli (MO), Cecilia Kim (VA), Vincent Miranda (FL), Kelly Taylor Mitchell (GA), Courtney Puckett (NY), Trina Michelle Robinson (CA), Mandy Cano Villalobos (MI), and Sandy Williams IV (VA)
Assembly, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s biennial exhibition program, highlights the material and conceptual trends being explored by contemporary artists in the present moment. The artists in Assembly 2022: Time and Attention demonstrate a deep commitment to process and craft, which is channeled through materials and into research. Through these carefully considered approaches, they are creating work that speaks to the present moment in ways that feel both urgent and timeless. In what feels like a moment of ongoing, even perpetual, crisis they bring this focused approach to issues that are fundamental to contemporary American life, including questions of identity, history, immigration, place, and belonging.
The artists included in Assembly 2022: Time & Attention were selected through a multi-step process. Curators from peer organizations across the country were invited to nominate two artists to be considered and, from the group of nominated artists, twelve were invited to participate in the exhibition by Blair Murphy, the Museum’s Curator of Exhibitions.
Related Programs
Extended Gallery Hours:
Friday, December 9 and Friday, December 16, 12pm-9pm
In Conversation: Cecilia Kim & Betsy Johnson
Friday / December 9 / 6pm
In person at MoCA Arlington
In Conversation: Sandy Williams IV & Jamelle Bouie
Friday / January 13 / 6pm
In person at MoCA Arlington
Live with Courtney Puckett & Mandy Cano Villalobos
Wednesday / January 18 / 12pm
On Instagram @mocaarlington
Roundtable: Erika Lynne Hanson, Vincent Miranda, and Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Moderated by Blair Murphy, Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
Friday / January 20 / 12pm ET / 9am PT
Virtual Program
Roundtable: MyLoan Dinh, Priya Suresh Kambli, and Trina Michelle Robinson
Moderated by Elena Gross, Co-Director, Berkeley Art Center
Tuesday / January 24 / 7pm ET / 4pm PT
Virtual Program
Additional Information
Assembly 2022: Time & Attention Catalog
from left(clockwise): Sandy Williams IV, The Wax Monuments VIII (Rushmore), Dreams I, The Fall II (Jefferson), and The (Bronze) Wax Monuments I – V , all 2022.
Photo by Luke Walter.
from left(clockwise): Sandy Williams IV, The Wax Monuments VIII (Rushmore), Dreams I, The Fall II (Jefferson), and The (Bronze) Wax Monuments I – V , all 2022.
Photo by Luke Walter.
(from left to right) MyLoan Dinh, Boom Boom Butterfly , 2019, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Untitled (Red),2021, Courtney Puckett, Study for The Caretaker , 2020, Study for The Journeyman I , 2019, Study for The Digger 2,and The Digger, 2020.
Photo by Luke Walter.
(from left to right) Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Untitled (Red) , 2021, Courtney Puckett, Study for The Caretaker , 2020, Study for The Journeyman I , 2019, Study for The Digger 2, andThe Digger, Study for The Griever,and The Griever , all 2020.
Photo by Luke Walter.
(from left to right), Sandy Williams IV, 40 ACRES: Chimborazo Park (Book), Dreams III and Dreams II , all 2022, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Untitled (Red) , 2021, and Courtney Puckett, Study for The Caretaker , 2020, Study for The Journeyman I , 2019, Study for The Digger 2 and The Digger, both 2020.
Photo by Luke Walter.
(from left to right), Sandy Williams IV, 40 ACRES: Chimborazo Park (Book), Dreams III and Dreams II, all 2022.
Photo by Luke Walter.
Assembly 2022: Time & Attention, Installation view with Merryn Omotayo Alaka, Snatched!, 2021 (left) and Vincent Miranda, Florida Jitt (Bromeliad Golds), Florida Jitt (Bromeliad Stutter), and Florida Jitt (Bromeliad variety), all 2022. Photo by Luke Walter. 
Installation view: Assembly 2022: Time & Attention. Photo by Luke Walter.
Erika Lynne Hanson, Apparently adverse possession does not apply to non-human persons, so i’ll build a slag wall in support of this tailing piles occupants {lichen, birch, otter} , 2022(bottom left), and A growing collection of rock like things , 2022(above).
Photo by Luke Walter.
Erika Lynne Hanson, A growing collection of rock like things , Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Untitled (Alabama #3) , and Erika Lynne Hanson, something about erosion or excavation: lichen, monsoon, and pit mine edition , all 2022.
Photo by Luke Walter.
(from left to right) Priya Suresh Kambli, Cast Wax pieces of the Devhara, and Objects of Worship, both 2022, MyLoan Dinh, (re)constructing the space in-between, 2021 and Merryn Omotayo Alaka & Sam Fresquez, Bundles Bundles I , 2021.
Photo by Luke Walter.
Priya Suresh Kambli, Cast Wax pieces of the Devhara (left), and Objects of Worship(right), both 2021.
Photo by Luke Walter.
MyLoan Dinh, (re)constructing the space in-between, 2021.
Photo by Luke Walter.
Trina Michelle Robinson, Liberation Through Redaction , 2022.
Trina Michelle Robinson, Berea , 2021(top), and Liberation Through Redaction , 2022(bottom).
Cecilia Kim, Far From Home, 2022
Cecilia Kim, Far From Home, 2022. Installation view from Assembly 2022: Time & Attention
Mandy Cano Villalobos, Bluer Skies for Brazen Hips, 2022. Installation image from Assembly 2022: Time & Attention.
Photo by Luke Walter.
Mandy Cano Villalobos, Bluer Skies for Brazen Hips, 2022. Installation image from Assembly 2022: Time & Attention.
Photo by Luke Walter.
