Jeffrey Gibson
‘Yet With a Steady Beat,’ is a wall installation featuring 17 circular prints that reference Gibson’s use of political buttons and drums, which are recurring elements in his interdisciplinary practice. Each 18-inch-diameter print incorporates imagery and messages drawn from political and social movements, as well as music and popular culture, and is installed directly atop wallpaper digitally printed with colored bands, designed by the artist. Working across painting, installation, video and performance, Gibson often engages Native American hand-drums, which he views as a means of summoning power, calling forward ancestors and sending intentional vibrations into the world. In his practice, drum playing becomes a call for collective gathering — an expression of community and shared history that resonates throughout the OPC installation, which reflects the voices and experiences that have come to define American culture.

Jenny Holzer
A richly layered text-based painting draws from FBI files on the Civil Rights-era Freedom Riders, who expanded the freedoms of African Americans to travel through the United States and legitimized the use of nonviolent direct action. Holzer transforms instruments of surveillance into a memorial to their remarkable courage and achievement.

Rashid Johnson
‘Broken Men,’ a large-scale mosaic in the Teaching Kitchen drawn from Johnson’s ongoing series of the same name, renders the multifaceted and complicated nature of lived experience through abstract figures whose ambiguous, wide-eyed expressions invite viewers to contemplate the universal resonance within the human condition.

Lorna Simpson
‘Durative,’ part of Simpson’s ongoing ‘Ice’ series depicting painted icescapes set against an expansive sky, will go on view in the Seminar Room of the Presidential Suite. Simpson layered silkscreened images of glaciers and smoke, dripping indigo acrylic onto fiberglass into an engrossing vision of an icy world most humans have only seen in photographs.Integrated within the architecture of the room, the work creates a quiet dialogue between the intimacy of a domestic interior and the boundlessness of the landscape.