Alternator exhibition essays respond to the artworks presented through our Main Gallery exhibition series, and add another layer of interpretation to the exhibitions on view. These essays take a variety of forms: formal essays, Q&As with the artist, interpretive responses, and other types of creative writing pieces.
Read the essay supporting our current exhibition below, or review the essay archive going back to 2019.
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In this interpretive essay, Michelle Weinstein explores how Weather, Window, Echo, Hum by Katherine Pickering, unsettles the binaries of abstract painting: form and content, blur and solid, mind and eye. Through sanding, stitching, and weathering, her process fuses memory with material, transforming abstraction into an excavation where beauty, loss, and perception quietly converge.
Read MoreWhy are some holes in the body coveted, and some considered shameful? Gazing into another’s eyes is a romantic act of love, while gazing into a butthole, another’s or one’s own, is an awkward proposition. It is safe to assume that the initial reactions to Christopher Lacroix’s artwork, There is a Minimum to Operate Properly will range from disgust, titillation, curiosity, desire and a variety of other states, perturbed and pleasing. This project requires multiple lenses to consider its subtle production of meanings, beyond initial visceral responses.
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