Saturday Tour
Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
RESERVE NOWFree and open to the public.
Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public.
Student Gallery Assistants offer a free tour of the exhibitions by Robert Lostutter and Kristi Cavataro, and mayfield brooks’ Whale Fall With Me.This intergenerational exhibition brings together an abridged survey of Robert Lostutter’s paintings and drawings (from the late-1960s to the present) with Kristi Cavataro’s recent stained glass sculptural works.
Robert Lostutter is known for creating meticulously-rendered hybrid human forms in surreal settings. Seemingly beatific, even when contorted with exposed innards, these adorned creatures demonstrate both a technical mastery and wild imagination that is at once bound up with and reaches beyond the human figure. Occupying the gallery’s floor, Kristi Cavataro’s sculptures, constructed out of opaque or translucent stained glass, create abstract shapes that evoke biomorphic resonances. Taking advantage of the abundant natural light of the gallery’s large windows, these closed volumes reveal an interior space defined by their color. More than a superficial skin, the color in the glass goes all the way through the medium.
Whale Fall with Me is a solo exhibition by mayfield brooks, the 2025–2026 CFA Artist in Residence, culminating their multi-year research on the life and death cycle of whales—a project that extends across writing, ’zine making, moving image, and brooks’ embodied practice of vocal and dance improvisation. At the center of the installation is a newly commissioned film focusing on the third chapter of brooks’ Whale Fall trilogy. Created as a site specific performance on the 1885 Tall Ship Wavertree in the care of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, and at Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York where the artist lives—this film brings together multiple strands of the artist’s exploration of the “whale fall” (an ecosystem process that occurs when a whale carcass sinks to the bottom of the ocean, its body feeding an entire world of creatures from the largest apex predators to the smallest microorganisms). Considering this phenomenon as more than an ecological event, brooks has used whale song and even the history of whaling (one of the first integrated industries relying heavily on Black and Indigenous labor) to imagine death as one of the most powerful life-giving forces in the universe. At its core, the whale fall asks: what becomes possible, inevitable, and necessary when systems break down? Whale Fall with Me gestures towards decomposition as a world-making force, a practice of liberation, a process of unbecoming that feeds a different existence.
Exhibitions on display through Sunday, March 1, 2026.
Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.
We encourage you to RSVP to help us with our planning and to get a reminder the day before this event. While RSVPs are not required for entry, they are a big help!
While you’re on campus, feel free to talk with our gallery assistants about the exhibitions and other upcoming special programs.
Thumbnail image: "Synovial Sea," created by mayfield brooks, presented as part of the BOFFO Performance Festival, Fire Island, New York, August 12, 2023. Photo by Nir Arieli.
Above image left: Robert Lostutter, "Poem for Everyone," 1972, Oil on canvas, 54 1/2 x 42 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Above image right: Kristi Cavataro, "Untitled," 2025, Stained glass, 44 x 27 1/8 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo by Simon Vogel.