 What you'll see is 15 years of work by the American artist David Wanorovich, who was born in 1954 and died in 1992. And though he lived a brief life, he had an extremely robust and active practice and career. There are over 150 artworks in this exhibition. And I think the viewer will see that there was no signature single style that Wanorovich worked in. There are photographs, there are collages, there's music, there's films, there's paintings. And I think for Wanorovich it was a way of escaping, being characterized, the fact that you could fulfill many identities, many possibilities in one life and in one artistic practice. And what we can't do as well, but you'll see it throughout the show, he wanted to first be a poet. He became well known eventually in the East Village for his monologues, which were extended sort of thought pieces, almost like a flignure about the life and the people he met, especially on the piers and going cross-country. And it's something that we can't totally give in the exhibition, but his writing is extremely important and as important as the artwork that you see. And when you think about David, one of the first things you will see is David in flames. And I like to think of that as, I have so much I want to say and it's just bursting out of me. And it bursts out as text, it bursts out as artwork, it's just coming out of me. It's just so much of me. And I think many people know Wanda Rovich from his AIDS activism, and this is really something that you see in his work from 1987 towards the end of his life when he dies in 1992, really inflected by the death of Peter Hujar, who was a photographer and artist and great friend of his. But I think what one sees throughout the exhibition that was accentuated by the work and life that he was thinking about during the AIDS crisis was the role of the outsider in culture, who gets spoken for, who was represented, who isn't. And so that's really heightened in the later work, but I think you see it throughout his practice when he uses animals or he talks about children or he thinks about immigrants or what's happening in Central Latin America during the 1980s. So this idea of the outsider and who has power and who hasn't is represented throughout the work. And also running throughout the work is an extreme love and respect for the natural environment. That it is something that has been damaged and destroyed by contemporary civilization, but also he takes a crack at, let's say, the Native American Indians. I mean, they were the civilization that we then superseded, but that it is a build-up of man counter-dictating the natural environment. And I think that is something that appears and then it gets richer and richer as you go through. And it's part of AIDS crisis is just part of that same kind of very strong concern for humanity, but also for the world itself and where we are. And that is why the title of the show, History Keeps Me, a Plural, keeps its present me awake at night, that we can't let our guard down. We've got to be always alert and always out there. And it's an active process. You can be three years old and you can be 30 years old and you can be 90 years old. You have to stay alert.