April 2026 Exhibitions featuring Tony Cokes and Cory Robinson

Overview

Tony Cokes: untitled (m.j. the symptom) Tube Video Gallery

Borrowing its text from assorted excerpts from the Mark Fisher-edited essay collection The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (2009), Untitled (m.j. the symptom) examines the King of Pop as a complex set of contradictory signifiers, a funhouse reflection that is as distinct, spectacular, and compromised as the culture that produced him. So say Kraftwerk in their haunting 1977 song “Hall of Mirrors”: “Even the greatest stars / find themselves in the looking glass.”

Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets: Open Code CAMi Tube Gallery

Indianapolis-based designer and multidisciplinary artist Cory Robinson builds on his CODEX series — a system of form typologies used to generate unique compositions across two- and three-dimensional works. Kept Secrets: Open Code uses this design language to explore layered personal histories through recontextualized objects, organizing the gallery around three distinct spatial environments: the Church, the Court, and the Garten.

The Church (pictured) features five large, tufted rugs installed in a curved sequence evoking the apse of a cathedral, translating Robinson's graphic CODEX language into softened, contemplative textile compositions. The Court presents two exaggerated throne-like chairs rooted in the artist's complicated relationship with the American justice system, incorporating references ranging from 18th-century Philadelphia furniture to the golden throne of Tutankhamun. The armrests are engraved with the phrases Open Eyes and Slow Burn — meditations on surveillance culture and collective desensitization to crisis. The Garten, the most intimate of the three environments, features sculptural lighting objects made from salvaged redwood, rooted in Robinson's lifelong affinity for plants and biomimetic design.

This exhibit is a full commission made possible in part by the Efroymson Family Fund.