Work from Catherine Wagner’s 1995 series Art & Science: Investigating Matter, -87 Degree Freezers: 12 Areas of Concern & Crisis is featured in the exhibition For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. September 19 – February 2, 2024
This is the first exhibition to survey themes of illness and impairment in American art from the 1960s up to the COVID-19 era. For Dear Life narrates the history of recent art through the lens of disability—a term used inclusively—recognizing the vulnerable body to be a crucial throughline for art in the United States amid the upheavals and transformations of past decades.