Past Exhibitions > Faculty Spotlight 2022

Casey Ruble

Supported by a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Ruble’s Red Summer: A look at, and away from, America’s deadliest year of interracial violence through a re-rendering of the forty-seven portraits from that year in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is a series of forty-seven small-scale, ink-on-paper paintings, accompanied by an artist book. The project stands as a form of institutional critique, calling attention to the National Portrait Gallery’s lack of representation of people of color and implicitly asking: Whom have we been missing? The Faculty Spotlight exhibition includes Ruble’s book and a selection of pieces from the Red Summer series.