The kids are alright
Meer
Timothy Taylor Gallery
27 Jun — 1 Aug 2025 at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in NYC
Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce The kids are alright, a group exhibition curated by Helen Toomer. Opening in New York on 27 June, this presentation will feature contemporary and historical works that explore cultural conceptions of childhood.
The exhibition includes work by Ann Agee, Diane Arbus, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Zoë Buckman, Dominic Chambers, Joana Choumali, Larry Clark, Mark Cohen, R. Crumb, Gehard Demetz, Kim Dingle, Madeline Donahue, Marcel Dzama, William Eggleston, Lloyd Foster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Julia García, Elizabeth Glaessner, Jay Lynn Gomez, Titus Kaphar, Jonathan Lasker, Louise Lawler, Charles LeDray, Sherrie Levine, Sally Mann, Marape, Elizabeth McIntosh, Joel Meyerowitz, Annie Morris, Ragen Moss, Anya Paintsil, Gordon Parks, Erin M. Riley, Kenny Rivero, Antonia Showering, David Shrigley, Ruby Sky Stiler, Katie Stout, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Rhys Ziemba.
The kids are alright brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose work engages with the realities and mythologies of childhood. Through painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and textiles, the exhibition reflects on how childhood is shaped, remembered, politicised, and imagined, and considers what it means to see the world through the eyes of children today.
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Andrea holding her daughter Nephratiti outside the Social Network Banquet Hall, Flint, Michigan, 2016-2017. From the series Flint is Family (2016–2022) by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The earliest work in the exhibition, Gordon Parks’s photograph Untitled, Alabama (1956), pictures two young dressed-up girls playing tea party in a puddle on a muddy street. The work belongs to Parks’s seminal series Segregation in the South, which documented the wake of the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Here, in the context of a tragically racially divided region, two little girls use play to learn about social mores. LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photograph Andrea holding her daughter Nephratiti outside the social network banquet hall, Flint, Michigan (2016–17) is likewise part of a larger documentary series, the lauded Flint is Family, which traces a public health crisis caused by government neglect and corporate greed. Frazier’s image centres on a bride and her mother in tender embrace, lovingly holding each other up.
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