BCA 27th Drawing Show — Yušká: Uncoil

Since 1979, the Drawing Show has been a signature group exhibition at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts. For each Drawing Show, BCA invites an accomplished external curator to develop a unique, topical concept for artists to respond to through an Open Call. The curator then selects the works and develops exhibition-related public programming for the show. This juried group exhibition has shown more than five hundred artists through the years. Previous Drawing Show curators have included Chanel Thervil (2019), Robert Moeller (2018), and Susan Metrican (2015).

This year’s curator is Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota interdisciplinary artist, Erin Genia. The theme she decided on is Yušká: Uncoil. In the Dakhota language, the word Yušká means: to untie, release, uncoil, loosen, set free. Its meaning can range from the simple untying of a knotted rope, all the way to a philosophical undoing of political, economic and social constructs.

This group show is on view from May 11–August 3 in the Mills Gallery at 551 Tremont Street. But make sure to join us on May 17 from 6–9pm to celebrate the opening of this show.