AT THE ALLEN / SPRING 2025 / 5 ELLEN JOHNSON GALLERY / JAN 10–JUN 1 Border Crossings: ContemporaryArt fromthe Zirinsky Collection Driek Zirinsky is Dutch American and Michael Zirinsky spent part of his youth in Iran. Their longstanding interest in border crossings drew them to artworks that approach geopolitics and identity-based issues with a disarming sense of humor. The artists whose work they chose to live with— and ultimately to give to Oberlin College—shed light on marginalized experiences and reclaim agency over the ways in which such narratives are framed. Artists in the exhibition include Ghada Amer, Natalie Ball, Ambreen Butt, Raven Chacon, Enrique Chagoya, Mel Chin, Olafur Eliasson, Jeffrey Gibson, Jennie C. Jones, Roman Ondak, Jean Shin, Dayanita Singh, Stephanie Syjuco, Marie Watt, Wendy Red Star, and Dyani White Hawk. Organized by SamAdams, Ellen Johnson ’33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, with Dlisah Lapidus (OC 2026) STERN & RIPIN GALLERIES / JAN 31–JUN 29 Shadows of Meaning, Echoes of Memory: Works fromthe Zirinsky Collection This exhibition is divided into two parts: one in the Stern Gallery and the other in the Ripin Gallery. In Ripin, the exhibition features works by Asian and Asian American artists that explore themes of history, memory, and identity, exemplified in Dinh Q. Lê’s Russian Roulette and Xiaoze Xie’s March 2002, P. P-G. Works by Peng Hung-Chih, Xu Bing, and Haegue Yang, further explore these themes while highlighting the complexities of howwe record and transmit meaning. In the Stern Gallery, Laleh Khorramian, Tomiyuki Sakuta, and Haoyu Xu create abstract worlds where perception and imagination intermingle. Xu Bing, Zhang Yunling, and Zhi Lin revisit landscapes filtered through lenses of language, history, and cultural remembrance. Chul Soo Lee, Boonmee Sangkhum, andWal Chirachaisakul present Buddhistinflectedmeditations on mortality. Finally, Masao Yamamoto, Kyohei Sakaguchi, and Xiaoze Xie draw attention to forgotten things: photos kept in boxes, books on shelves, or even people. Organized by Kevin R. E. Greenwood, Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art, with Joanne Kim (OC 2026) “ Theworks are, in some sense, ‘my children,’ so I’mhappy that they are at Oberlin. But most thrilling is the way they are used at theAllen by both faculty and students.” — Driek Zirinsky Wendy Red Star (American, Apsáalooke/Crow, b. 1981), Her Dreams are True (Julia Bad Boy), 2021. 2023.1.1. Ghada Amer (Egyptian, b. 1963), Reza Farkhondeh (Iranian, b. 1963), The Perfumed Garden, 2005. 2021.59.13. Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955), Landscript: Revisit, 2001. 2023.1.44. Stephanie Syjuco (Filipino-American, b. 1974), Green Ride, 2005. 2023.1.41.
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