Luteal Phase At Sunset

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September 2 - October 25, 2025

Union Gallery, Wagner College

Curated by Jenny Toth

Images: Renana Neuman

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Wagner College is delighted to present Luteal Phase At Sunset a solo exhibition by artist Ye’ela Wilschanski, featuring site-specific fiber-art created for the Union Gallery. The quilt is stretched on the gallery's ceiling. Parallely, a mat on the floor invites visitors to take their shoes off, lie down and look up at the quilt horizontally. The 19.6 x 19.6 feet quilt’s colors are inspired by the sunset and fall foliage. The prominent color is green with additional pink, orange, yellow and shades of blue. At the center of the quilt, and at the center of the gallery, the quilt extends a column 6.5 feet long. Only viewers looking at the quilt horizontally will see a miniature quilt of the larger pattern at the base of the column. 

 

The title refers to the final stage of the menstrual cycle, Luteal Phase, that for some is characterized by emotional difficulty as hormones shift. Similarly, sunset is a time-based natural chapter that ends the day cycle, and as fall is a transition to winter.

 

Wilschanski’s primary medium is sculpture, layered with performance and video. Her time-based architectural-garments carefully construct large geometrical forms, evoking frames such as a window, book or table. These transformative, wearable items the artist enters into, suggest structural shifts in both the artist’s body and the garments. Through her choreography and combination of mediums, Wilschanski examines the notion of functionality and corporeality in an environment she creates. For the exhibition at Union Gallery, Wilschanski invites the community at Wagner College the experience of being inside her sculpture.