“Second Sight” Exhibition
Brian Morris Gallery
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If a viewer asks, “What is the story in an abstract painting?” is “story” the exact wrong word? Would “What is the subject?” be any better? And if the viewer is keen to ferret out possible historical sources for the structure in any given work? Or asks, “What reputable ghosts inhabit the tradition from which this picture derives?” And can we presume to discover the artist’s “ultimate concern,” if it’s anything other than to keep us looking? Feel free, curious viewer, to look long, ponder deliberately, and ask often (& ye shall receive).
But lacking protagonists, conventional settings, and representation’s spatial tropes, a viewer of abstract paintings must orient by alternate radar, absorb the work’s shapes and colors via unregulated sensors. Can we hold what we know of the history of modernism in mind while taking the time to see what’s been made, getting a feel for how a picture works, how the uncertain experience of making meets the unstable activity of seeing, and remember to ask, “What makes it art?”
-Geoffrey Young
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Schedule
from June 19, 2014 to July 19, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-06-19 from 19:00 to 21:00