An 11-foot glass sculpture made of thousands of hand-cut images sealed between layers of laminated glass fills the Bruce Museum's Sculpture Gallery in Greenwich through March 2027.
Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin's "Politics of Eternity" opened July 25 and runs through March 14, 2027. The seven-part work weighs nearly 11,000 pounds and stands as the centerpiece of a larger exhibition that includes collages, small glass studies and paintings, according to the Bruce Museum's exhibition page.
The sculpture, completed in 2020, compresses painted marks and found imagery within dozens of glass panes bonded with epoxy and steel. References range from ancient artifacts and rare minerals to rusting cars, nuclear waste and speculative visions of colonies on Mars.
"Few artists work at this intersection of art, science, and storytelling, and almost none at this scale," Mary-Kate O'Hare, the Bruce Museum's executive director and CEO, said in a July 23 preview published by the Greenwich Sentinel.
The exhibition also screens "Goodnight, Lamby," a short film directed by Yellin and produced by Darren Aronofsky and Justin Gonçalves. The film was named an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
It blends live action and animation to follow a three-year-old girl searching through the sculpture for a lost stuffed animal. Paul Rudd, Chris Rock and Yellin's daughter, Zia Yellin, provide voices. Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers contributed an original song.
Yellin, born in 1975, also founded Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn cultural center supporting experimentation across art, science, music and technology. His solo exhibitions have appeared at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Liberty Science Center in New Jersey and the SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia, the Greenwich Sentinel reported.
The American Federation of Arts organized the touring exhibition, curated by Katharine J. Wright. Jordan Hillman, assistant curator of art at the Bruce Museum, organized the Greenwich presentation.
The show arrives three years after the Bruce Museum completed a major expansion that doubled the museum's size and tripled its gallery space, according to the Greenwich Sentinel.
"Dustin Yellin: Politics of Eternity" is on view at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, through March 14, 2027.
