Upcoming:

Tory Fair: Protest Flowers

Opening Sunday, June 1, 2025 2 - 5pm

Flower Protest reimagines the language of ecofeminism to meet the urgencies of this moment, transforming cast sunflowers into kinetic, robotic sculptures that oscillate between humor and grief. Tory Fair's ongoing engagement with the histories of feminist abstraction—particularly through research on Susan L. Stoops’ 1996 exhibition (at the Rose Art Museum) More than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 70s—grounds her practice in a lineage of artists like Mary Miss, whose work bridges architecture, land art, and ecological intervention. Fair’s sunflowers, cast in silicone rubber and dirt at the end of their life cycle, embody both resilience and contradiction: they protest their own materiality while insisting on endurance. In their movement, they mourn, they jest, and they speak directly to the precarious yet persistent state of our world.

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