Exhibition Details
When the Light Fades, curated by Rafael Domenech, features 12 works by multidisciplinary artist, Dennis Scholl, that explore the fragility and persistence of cultural memory. Drawing from an archive of historically resonant materials — tabloid newspapers, Civil War letters, draft cards, Olympic memorabilia, fashion ephemera, and more — Scholl constructs works that are both visual elegies and compositional meditations.
The exhibition unfolds in three thematic movements — Public Lives, Private Loss; Paper Nation; and Quiet Carriers — each probing a different register of remembrance. In these works, Scholl treats ephemera not as discarded matter but as charged material, rich with emotional and political resonance.
As the media landscape continues to splinter and shared moments become rarer, When the Light Fades offers an act of resistance — a reassembly of moments when the world, even briefly, looked in the same direction.
The exhibition unfolds in three thematic movements — Public Lives, Private Loss; Paper Nation; and Quiet Carriers — each probing a different register of remembrance. In these works, Scholl treats ephemera not as discarded matter but as charged material, rich with emotional and political resonance.
As the media landscape continues to splinter and shared moments become rarer, When the Light Fades offers an act of resistance — a reassembly of moments when the world, even briefly, looked in the same direction.
About the LeRoy Neiman Gallery
The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies is a not-for-profit printshop with a mission to provide students, as well as invited artists, a rich environment in which to investigate and produce images through a myriad of printmaking techniques including intaglio, lithography, screenprint, relief, and digital imaging.
Since its founding in 1996, the Neiman Center has collaborated with more than 60 artists and published close to 600 editions, many of which have been acquired by museums and private collectors around the world.
Since its founding in 1996, the Neiman Center has collaborated with more than 60 artists and published close to 600 editions, many of which have been acquired by museums and private collectors around the world.
Location
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery
310 Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Image: Installation view of When the Light Fades: Icons, Ephemera, and the Passage of Time /courtesy of Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies