Terms of Use
July 1st-22nd
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 1st 6-9pm
This exhibit presents the work of six visual artists working in a range of media that covers alternative printmaking, sequential drawing, photography, and repurposed craft. Each works with a certain amount of pretext and has adapted generative strategies that in many cases refer to very specific rules laid out in the onset of process. “Terms of Use,” then, refers to the relationship that the artist has in manipulating borrowed material as well as intended, though surrogated, interactions with the viewer.
Anthony Smith
Mega-Spacy Hit Parad2, 2006
48” x 36”
Mixed media
Karen Sanders
Untitled, 2003
48” x 60”
Photo print
Procedure and process are explicitly cited in many of these works, more subtly in others. Artists Karen Sanders and Anthony Smith Jr. work with appropriated imagery, re-contextualizing the familiar to encourage unforeseen narratives. Of particular interest to these artists is the diminishing and often fallible role of memory as ballast in the human experience.
Clay Hensley
Gold Street, 2003
67” x 67”
Mixed media on canvas
Clay Hensley and Kathryn Stine both adapt traditional matrix-based process to unexpected ends. Operating out of lineages that refer back to domestic handwork and printmaking respectively, each of these artists works in dialogue with the tangible residue of past experience.
The work of Lorretta Staples is grounded in experimentation with line, form, and color; having developed patterns of mark-making resulting from personal, meditative processes that are at once organized and exploratory.
These six artists share an appreciation for process that manifests in new ways, asking the viewer to question how traditional art-making materials are put into use, and questioning the prescriptions with which we are so often confronted in daily life. This show focuses on the instinct to appropriate images, objects and stylistic approaches in order to construct new relationships and narratives or to comment on here to now neglected and under-appreciated subjects.
Kathryn Stine
Cicatrix (opening), 2004
8” x 12”
Mixed media
Loretta Staples
Untitled, 2005
16” x 12”
Watercolor paper
Working with the residual effects of re-contextualization, the work included here presents a range of references, from adaptations of the Bezier curve to manifestations of widespread attitudes towards race and urban blight to the presumed life of orphaned objects, be they in the form of a cast-off book or tattered poster.