UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN

The Parrish Art Museum and The FLAG Art Foundation are pleased to present UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN, a two-part exhibition that considers material and conceptual approaches to engaging with landscape. While thematically and curatorially related, 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 at the Parrish focuses on formal explorations rooted in natural materials. Working with physical earth and the materials gleaned from it—including minerals, fiber, and and plant matter—these artists eschew pictorial depictions of land, using abstraction to examine personal and collective attachments to place. What emerges through line, form, color, and materiality are not literal landscapes, but meditations on memory, sensory experience, and the layered histories of land.

Dating from the 1990s to the present, the works range from the gestural abstractions of Sonya Kelliher-Combs’ hide paintings—in which marks are shaved directly into animal furs sourced from her homeland in Alaska—to the geometric forms of Christine Howard Sandoval’s adobe mud drawings that reference historic architectures of the Southwest. Dan Colen’s crushed flower petal paintings evoke the all-over abstractions of mid-century Abstract Expressionist painters, while sculptures by Wolfgang Laib, Delcy Morelos, and Meg Webster explore histories of minimalism through materials like milk, jute, and salt. The exhibition’s title is drawn from a 1994 text-based work by conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. Printed in vinyl and presented on the Parrish façade, the work suggests dramatic natural forms simply through the function of language, allowing the phrase to be both literal and abstract.

The presentation at the Parrish features work by Dan Colen (American, b. 1979), N. Dash (American, b. 1980), Andy Goldsworthy (British, b. 1965), Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Athabascan, b. 1969), Wolfgang Laib (German, b. 1950), Richard Long (British, b. 1945), Delcy Morelos (Colombian, b. 1967), Jonathan Sánchez Noa (Cuban-American, b. 1994), Martin Puryear  (American, b. 1941), Eric-Paul Riege (Diné, b. 1994), Christine Howard Sandoval (Chalon Ohlone, b. 1975), Michelle Stuart (American, b. 1933), Martha Tuttle (American, b. 1989), Meg Webster (American, b.1944), and Lawrence Weiner (American, 1942–2021).

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

About the Partnership
UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN marks the second iteration of a new curatorial partnership between The FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum. Between 2026 and 2030, the two organizations will collaborate on three exhibitions annually across two adjoining galleries at the Museum. This partnership builds on the recent FRESH PAINT collaboration, a rotating series of single-artwork exhibitions at the Parrish that began in June 2024. Signaling the deepening relationship between FLAG and the Parrish, this expanded partnership also marks the growth of FLAG’s commitment to supporting contemporary art practices of all forms beyond its brick-and-mortar exhibition spaces in Manhattan.

Exhibition Support
UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of The FLAG Art Foundation.

The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton Union Free School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.

About The FLAG Art Foundation
The FLAG Art Foundation is a non-collecting, nonprofit exhibition space that mounts solo, two-person, and thematic group exhibitions centering on emerging and established artists from around the globe. Organized by a diverse community of curators and thinkers within and beyond the art world, FLAG opened to the public in 2008 and has staged over 100 exhibitions celebrating the work of nearly 1,000 artists. Committed to providing education and resources for its surrounding community, and across New York City, all exhibitions and programs—including artist talks, artist-led workshops, and guided tours for school and museum groups—are free and open to the public.

The FLAG Art Foundation was founded by Glenn Fuhrman, an art patron and philanthropist, alongside his wife Amanda, a Co-Founder of The Fuhrman Family Foundation. Fuhrman is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and The Tate Americas Foundation, New York, NY; and is a Board Member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a Board Member of the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, and The Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY.