Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time

Dates:

June 29, 2024 - November 10, 2024

Location:

Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Rotunda, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

With a humanizing lens, artist Abigail DeVille explores how marginalized communities persevere through their search for renewal and happiness as they migrate to new places that become sanctuaries.

Selected Works

an art installation with two large blue cascading pieces of fabric on either side and a constructed object resembling a lunar capsule in the center. — Outer: Abigail DeVille, *Azul*, 2022, wood, MDF, paint, paper, 144 x 204 x 214 inches. Inner: Abigail DeVille, *Lunar Capsule*, 2022, steel, aluminum, gold fabric, gold leaf, found chair, recorder, gold paint, Approximately 75 x 82 inches (diameter). Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

An assemblage sculpture with an organic form on the left, a fabric and broken glass cloth on the floor, and a figure on the right — Abigail DeVille, *New York at Dawn*, 2010, Tyvek, enamel and latex paint, dirt, American flags, graphite, lamp shade, synthetic hair, polyurethane varnish, chicken wire, plastic sheeting, plaster, garbage bags, pâpier-maché, fake eyelashes, duct tape, wood chips, wire, canvas, cigarette butt, acrylic yarn, metal, salt dough, and hardware, 102 x 114 x 96 inches, Courtesy of the artist, the DeVille Family Collection, and the Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

A wall sculpture with four sections of boards and debris in abstract patterns — Abigail DeVille, *Whole*, 2010, found boards, dirt, polyurethane, 60 x 96 x 4 ½ inches, Collection of The Bronx Museum (Gift of Johannes Vogt). Courtesy the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario

a collage with photos of faces and cityscapes, broken glass, and old footwear.lass, shoes — Abigail DeVille, *La Loge Harlem*, 2017, archival photographs, shoes, string, mirror shards, polyurethane, glass, wood, 36 ⅝ x 29 ¾ x 4 ½ inches, Courtesy of the artist, KADIST Collection, and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario

A sculpture made of found objects, showing two partial figures, with costume jewelry, wire, foil, all on wheels — Abigail DeVille, *Dark Matter, No Matter*, 2020, Shopping cart, dolly, rope, bungee cords, zip ties, aluminum foil, costume jewelry, Glass TV monitor, antique glass bottles, dinner bell, record rack, deflated inner tubes, 1950s metal child space helmet, painted plastic helmet, light bulbs, mirror shards, deconstructed mannequin, child’s mannequin head, 77 ¼ in x 64 x 34 inches, Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum, Installation view of *Bronx Heavens* at The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario

An assemblage sculpture with manniquins, axe, stove, chair, wire, and video monitor. — Sculpture: Abigail DeVille, *Archive Wakes (Number Tree)*, 2021, Television, video, paint, stove, axe, mannequins, iron Christmas tree, gold wire, lotto tickets, chains, bungee cords with hooks, plant roots, water cooler, chains, panty hose, window fragments, broken bottles, chair, pool cue, walking canes, shoe sole, clay wheel, chandelier crystal prisms, 114 x 45 x 33 inches, Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

An assemblage sculpture of reclaimed televisions with videos playing under a group of light bulbs on long cords — Abigail DeVille, *Cosmos Gate*, 2022, reclaimed TVs, found footage, historical footage, Bronx locations filmed in 2022, light bulbs, 84 x 143 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

A sculpture with a metal bed frame with accumulated debris and lights. — Abigail DeVille, *Bronx Heavens (bed)*, 2022, metal bed spring coils, wire, nylon paracord, accumulated debris, gold foil, gold metal wire, plastic flowers, brass, lights, 89 x 38 x 20 ¼ inches, Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.

About

With a humanizing lens, artist Abigail DeVille explores how marginalized communities persevere through their search for renewal and happiness as they migrate to new places that become sanctuaries. This exhibition features large-scale installations and sculptural works that are part of her “Libertas” series, as well as a newly created piece related to Bowdoin College’s history. It also includes rarely seen works that examine familial and ancestral experiences as they relate to the complex notion of freedom.

Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time is a continuation of Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Press

"What you can learn from Maine’s college art museums this fall," Portland Press Herald, August 23, 2024

"BCMA exhibition 'Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time' touches on time, history and migration," The Bowdoin Orient, September 20, 2024