As a distinguished Smithsonian Affiliate, this site preserves the island's history through a working farm, maritime museum, and various art exhibits. It also serves as the long-running home for the annual Pig Island Festival.story_potoo
IM/MATERIAL is Trudy Benson’s third solo exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery, where she creates vibrant kaleidoscopic abstractions. Her paintings exist somewhere between the digital and analog realm of abstraction, utilizing a process that gestures toward the discrete layers that compose digital art.
Timed to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, 'Plus Ultra' brings together a new body of paintings and a new animation exploring the imagery, spectacle, and collective experience of sports. Brian Alfred centers the show on sports imagery as a mode to explore its interpersonal, aesthetic, and emotional role inherent to competition and fandom.