"Inside Voices" Exhibition

Parallel Art Space

poster for "Inside Voices" Exhibition

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Second only to the securing of food and water, a mortal interest in shelter and the trappings thereof, are as old as history itself. The domiciliary movement from tents and mud-brick huts to glass and steel apartment buildings mirrors the trajectory of human civilization; “the home” being an archetypal marker that is readily discernable in art history as well. From the shallow mysteries of early Roman wall paintings, to the quiet warmth of 15th Century Flemish portraits to the chromatically dizzying quarters of the Impressionists and the Nabis, the domestic interior has been, and remains, a vital source of inspiration for art-makers even today.

Taken from the admonishing, parental instructions to “still oneself” the title “Inside Voices” references the idea that, even from childhood, our interior spaces are synonymous with quietude, interpersonal exchange, and introspection. Correspondingly, our private rooms and internal thoughts are sometimes linked as both are the locus of some of life’s most unrevealed dramas & intimate disclosures. About secrets as much as safe haven, partitions as much as protection, the troves of this subject matter are deep indeed and provide ample source material for the six artists in this show. Employed according to the dictates of their individual endeavors, the genre of interiors is but one similarity shared among them. A firmness of investigational footing, cumulative tonal dissonance, and deep psychological underpinnings are also shared qualities within the results of their making; artworks that, like the interior spaces of their inspiration, might be described, by turns, as placid, dynamic, convivial, and haunted.

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from February 23, 2013 to April 07, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-02-23 from 18:00 to 21:00

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