Oliver Herring Acquisition by Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York, USA

BANK is pleased to announce that Oliver Herring's Queensize Bed with Coat (1993-1994) has been acquired into the collection of Tang Museum at Skidmore College. Opened in 2000 as part of Skidmore College in New York, the Tang Museum was established in honor of a generousity from alumna Frances Young Tang and her husband, Oscar Tang, and is nationally renowned for its architecture and collections. Oliver Herring had a solo exhibition at the Tang Museum in 2009.

 

The work Queensize Bed with Coat was created as an homage to Ethyl Eichelberger, the performance artist and drag queen who committed suicide in 1991. Herring used knitting to express themes of immortality and memory. The vibrating surface of Queensize Bed with Coat absorbs and reflects light suggesting an anxious beauty poised between this world and the next. 

 

The work is currently on view in the group exhibition "A Field of Bloom and Hum" at the Tang Museum. At a time when the rights of members of the queer community are under threat (the American Civil Liberties Union tracked 533 anti-LGBTQ bills in the US in 2024, for example), the Tang presents this a two-floor exhibition featuring work by queer artists spanning the last century that assert their lives and stories upon the world.

2025.02.14-2025.07.20