Hailed as the “#1 Art Show of 2015” per Baltimore City Paper by Paul Rucker, the “Best Artist of 2015” per Baltimore Magazine, REWIND exhibition reincarnates to make its New York premiere as Rewind Resurrection at a Chelsea gallery on July 1, 2025. Rewind Resurrection is a solo exhibition featuring the works of award-winning multimedia artist Paul Rucker. It is an urgent, poignant, and timely exhibition, a bold response to the movement to erase and distort our shared history. The show comprises work that embodies America’s uncomfortable history, which connects us to current-day events. Rewind Resurrection is a not-to-be-missed show, one that creates a rich tapestry connecting past to present.

Through Rewind Resurrection, Rucker guarantees to reveal the unseen and the unsavory, compelling beyond what words can capture, something that can only be felt and experienced in person through the physicality of the exhibition.

The most notable and striking aspects of the show are the Ku Klux Klan robes reimagined with colorful nontraditional fabric. The show also features works that combine primary source materials from Rucker’s private collection and the archives of the forthcoming Cary Forward Museum, based in Richmond, Virginia. Artifacts from the museum are used to create animations featuring vintage census maps and prison data, sculptures commemorating lesser-known deaths of civil rights figures, weavings of lynching scenes, and works on paper using a semiautomatic weapon.

This exhibition is an update of REWIND, a show that one gallery considered “too provocative” for the public. At York College in Pennsylvania, the community was banned from attending the exhibition. The National Coalition Against Censorship listed it as one of the significant free speech issues of 2017.

Location: 545 West 23rd Street

Time: 10:00 am — 6:00 pm EST

Free!

Registration