If Herr Street Could Talk is a homecoming exhibition honoring Harrisburg-born artist Alteronce Gumby. While he is now based in New York City, Gumby grew up on Herr Street only a few blocks from the Susquehanna Art Museum. A 2004 graduate of Harrisburg High School, Gumby went on to earn his MFA from the Yale School of Art. This exhibition brings his internationally recognized practice back to his hometown. 

Featuring twenty-six luminous works, If Herr Street Could Talk invites Harrisburg audiences to engage with Gumby’s captivating abstractions that evoke images of the cosmos and the infinite. Working within and beyond the traditions of modern abstraction, Gumby creates a visual language that is both structural and radiant. Echoing Sir Isaac Newton’s early experiments with light and prisms, Gumby incorporates glass and gemstones to refract and scatter light across the surface of his paintings. Each work becomes an ever-changing play of reflection and color, activated by the viewer’s movement and shifting perspective. These cosmic landscapes invite us to see color not as fixed, but as something alive and full of possibility.