Image: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, New York
Together, the participants will share insights into the exhibition’s artworks, materials, and ideas, discussing the elements that shape the presentation through a gallery walkthrough. The event is free and open to the public.
‘Greater Than the Sum’ is a group exhibition at the Arts Center, running from October 24, 2026, through February 7, 2027. The artists included in the exhibition each use practices of gathering, reuse, and assemblage, working through sculpture, fiber, found objects, and collected materials. These approaches demonstrate how a component’s value is not found solely in its advertised or initial use, but also in its ability to connect in countless ways with other beings, ideas, and objects to create complex, stronger, and richer collectives and meanings.
The exhibition includes environmentally focused assemblages by Carolina Caycedo; spiritually charged sculptures by Arthur Simms; wrapped fiber works by Judith Scott; Kea Tawana’s custom-built trunks and systems of organization; and Lenore Tawney’s gathered materials, collaged boxes, and assemblages drawn from her studio practice.
The works reveal practices rooted in observation, collection, collaboration, and transformation.
