On Stellar Rays is pleased to present a summer group exhibition with works by Terry Adkins, Barbara DeGenevieve, Rochelle Feinstein, Maren Hassinger, Clifford Owens, William Pope.L and Martha Rosler. The exhibition explores, using personal example, the way interests converge among peers and genealogies are developed.

The departure point of the exhibition is Owens’ own work, which frequently engages other artists’ works in collaborative performances and dialogue. His Anthology project, forthcoming in November at MoMA PS1, investigates the historical function of the ‘score’ in performance practice and the productive tension between collaboration and authorship. Owens work is directly influenced by a preceding generation of African American artists working in performance, as well as a generation of artists for whom social awareness and activism was the norm.