“How Shallow” Exhibition

Ortega y Gasset Projects @ The Old American Can Factory

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Ortega y Gasset Projects presents How Shallow, a group exhibition with works by Sage Dawson, Meghan Grubb, Allison Lacher, and Edo Rosenblith, four of the Co-Directors of the artist-run space Monaco in St. Louis.

How shallow. The wind stirs the surface of a shallow pool. The image invites us, then repels us. A surface, a pattern, is just a pattern. But past civilizations knew that meaning is always hidden in ornament, and vice versa.

How Shallow presents four artists - Meghan Grubb, Edo Rosenblith, Allison Lacher, and Sage Dawson - working in mixed modes: abstract and pictorial; unidimensional and sculptural. How shallow? A fantasy. A flood. A magic carpet ride. An entrancing image. Abstraction hides itself from our picture-making, and a meaning-making look is looking back. Where flamingos gather, silhouettes on a miniature horizon: blank. Pejorative. Shallow people, shallow acts. There’s not much to it, and not much depth. But who’s to say? Still waters run deep, so shallow waters churn and leap.