THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY
ANCESTRY

Constance S. & Robert J. Hennessy Project Space

September 9 - December 31, 2022

Curated by Kristin Deady, Jenna Lucente, and Alexander Rosenberg

OPENING EVENT: September 9, 2022 | 5 - 9 PM

ON ART: November 30, 2022 | 6 PM
Key Artist, Helen Lee

Davin Ebanks, *Passages: Negro, Azul, Blanco,* 2021
Cast & kiln-formed glass

Many glass-making processes remain largely unchanged over hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. When one learns a craft tradition, there is a natural conversation with the past, occasionally allowing an impossible connection across time and space.

Davin Ebanks and Helen Lee use glass to engage with their respective ancestry while also exploiting glass’ ability to mimic other materials, colors and surfaces.

Ebanks is a Caymanian sculptor who primarily utilizes glass to explore his personal and cultural history and examine the relationship between identity and environment.

Lee is interested in how language inherently changes over time, across cultures, and in physical form. Her bilingual experience as a second generation Chinese-American is written through a fluid material that similarly embodies a state of flux.

Participating Artists: Davin Ebanks and Helen Lee

Constance S. & Robert J. Hennessy Project Space

For our Fall/Winter 2022 Season, The Delaware Contemporary presents Through a Glass, Darkly, in all of our main galleries occupying more than 6,000 square feet. Curated by three guest curators, Kristin Deady, Jenna Lucente, and Alexander Rosenberg, this museum-wide exhibition includes new and recent works by artists working with glass and glass-related materials and processes, exposing the material’s dual nature. Selected works engage the historical promise and power of the material to reveal and to bring clarity, while challenging viewers to acknowledge an inherent interconnectedness between enhancement and distortion.

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