Misha Gordin: SHOUT

Artists go hand in hand with activism. 

For centuries, artists have probed the human condition, drawing on the multitudes of human experience and emotion through a visual language that often transcends words. Through trials and joys, elation and defeat, wars and famine, they have created essential dialogue that speaks to our core spirit. Artists have also long been among the first to notice when something is wrong, and among the last to look away.

Even now, our global and local circumstances can cause heartache and anguish we can’t find the words to express. When words stop short, art finds a path. Sometimes it whispers, and sometimes it refuses to be quiet.

In the evocative Shout, Misha Gordin gives voice to what cannot be held in. A Latvian-born photographer who left Soviet rule for a new life in the United States, Gordin built his surreal, haunting images by hand in the darkroom, turning private anguish and inner conviction into something we can see.

On view October 16, 2026 through January 17, 2027, alongside Cry.