Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into Tau Lewis: Spirit Level. In this conversation, get a closer look at the found and upcycled materials Lewis transformed into a new body of work for the ICA. Learn about the five monumental figures that preside over the gallery and the past lives of the materials they are made of. 

About Jeffrey De Blois

Devoted to working closely with artists and an expert in all things books, De Blois has been part of the ICA curatorial team for more than 30 exhibitions and 10 books, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Caitlin Keogh, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Tammy Nguyen. He has also organized solo shows with artists Rose B. Simpson, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, and Raúl de Nieves, among others. Most recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas and the first monograph and U.S. solo exhibition of the work of Tau Lewis.

Tau Lewis: Spirit Level is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

This exhibition is supported by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Mathieu O. Gaulin, Girlfriend Fund, Robert Nagle and Katherine Hein, Kim Sinatra, the Jennifer Epstein Fund for Women Artists, an anonymous donor, and Miko McGinty.  

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