"Clamoring to Become Visible" Exhibition
BAC Gallery
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BAC Gallery opens the group exhibition Clamoring to Become Visible, which examines how the written word interacts with and often replaces the normative notion of visual aesthetics within the gallery space. Often aesthetically subtle and intimate, the handwritten, embroidered, and collaged examples of text-based art selected for the exhibition represent fourteen contemporary artists' attempts to explore everyday issues such as isolation, identity, spirituality, and communication. Carrying the fundamental commonality of language, the works revolve around an ideal of connectivity as it relates to artistic craft, self-inquiry, articulation and expression, and ultimately to our parallel human circumstance.
Whether appropriated from popular culture, existing literary passages, or purposefully written by an individual artist, the utilization of language within the realm of contemporary visual arts presents specific challenges, both aesthetic and conceptual. Immediately contextualized as art when placed on the gallery wall, these text-based works have the communicative potential to engage their viewers on an intuitive level, convey specific humanistic or intellectual ideas, and provide challenging quandaries for their viewers to ponder. If language inherently begs to be read, these text-based artworks represent the various possibilities for juxtaposition, dissonance, and cooperation when the words themselves become images.
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Schedule
from February 05, 2009 to June 26, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-02-05 from 18:00 to 20:00