UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN

MAY 27-JULY 31, 2026

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Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 27, 6-8 PM

The FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum are pleased to announce UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN, a two-part exhibition that considers material and conceptual approaches to representing landscape and physical earth. While thematically and curatorially related—and united by the title, itself a reference to Lawrence Weiner’s 1994 text-based work—each exhibition will address a variety of formal, personal and political concerns that play out across their respective spaces in Manhattan and Long Island’s East End.

UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN features work by pioneering figures of land art alongside contemporary artists redefining one’s relationship to place through a wide range of media and formal approaches—conceptualism and abstraction to documentary and pictorial representation. Eschewing the oftentimes monumental approach of historic land art for a more diverse and intimate scale, the artists inUNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN examine personal and collective attachments to land.

Part I will be on view on FLAG’s 9th floor between May 27-July 31, 2026, and will emphasize the ways in which artists explore established views of landscape. In Lawrence Weiner’s titular work from 1994, dramatic natural forms are invoked simply through the function of language. Printed in small vinyl and peppered throughout the exhibition at FLAG and large-scale on the exterior of the Parrish’s building, Weiner allows the phrase to be both literal and abstract. This movement between what is fixed and fluid unfolds in N. Dash’s multimedia sculpture VO_23, 2023, as well, in which a mixture of synthetic and organic materials are melded together to suggest totemic forms and the weathering process of time. In Lucy Skaer’s sculpture Time Channel, 2024, a monumental wood form leans against the gallery wall, its shape evoking what the title implies. 

Part I at FLAG features work by Vija Celmins, Raven Chacon, Ann Craven, N. Dash, Jason Dodge, Maren Hassinger, Sky Hopkina, Brice Marden, Teresa Margolles, Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, Delcy Morelos, Lucy Skaer, Alan Sonfist, Michele Stuart, Martha Tuttle, Meg Webster, and Lawrence Weiner.

Part II of UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN will open at the Parrish on August 1 and remain on view through November 1, 2026. While Part I will complicate traditional landscape, Part II at the Parrish focuses on a formal exploration, rooted in materials either taken from the earth or directly referencing it. In Delcy Morelos’s hanging sculptures, Organized Salt Water, 2014, strips of natural fiber are coated with washes of soil and acrylic shades of red and brown in a slow process that carries the imprint of the earth. Decentering a purely Western notion of landscape, Sonya Kelliher-Combs combines customary Iñupiaq and Athabascan materials from Alaska with synthetic ones that range from animal hides to nylon threads to acknowledge and celebrate the land from which they are made.

Part II at the Parrish features work by Dan Colen, N. Dash, Andy Goldsworthy, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Delcy Morelos, Jonathan Sánchez Noa, Martin Puryear, Eric-Paul Riege, Christine Howard Sandoval, Michelle Stuart, Martha Tuttle, Meg Webster, and Lawrence Weiner.

UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN is organized by the Parrish Art Museum and The FLAG Art Foundation. The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Rider, FLAG’s Director, with Caroline Cassidy, FLAG’s Deputy Director, and Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish Art Museum.

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May 27-July 31, 2026