Featuring conversations: exterior—interior, the third exhibition of a 3-part series looking at specific ideas by-way-of the artists’ practice.
conversations: exterior—interior
08 december 2014 – 11 january 2015
curated by john ros
Anna Freeman Bentley
Kariann Fuqua
Nancy Hubbard
Ashley Rich
other exhibits in this series:
13 october – 09 november 2014: conversations: SPACE&time
10 november – 07 december 2014: conversations: /HOME/
conversations: explained.
This 3-part series of exhibitions is an investigation into specific ideas within artists’ practices and how those paths unfold into the broader conversation for the audience. Each exhibit will bring artists from the US and the UK together to begin discussions into slightly obscure ideas that resonate throughout broader, less-obvious themes. SPACE&time: a look into how space and time may shift and how our own perspectives of each affect our experiences; /HOME/, a discussion on what it means to be “home” and how artists work to create that experience; and exterior—interior, how the morphing of space can allow it to become both interior and exterior at the same time.
The studio is the starting point for all of these conversations. When one experiences an artist’s raw, unedited practice, you can begin to better understand the depth of research involved. Not all work is a success, nor should it be. Of those “horrible works”, our instinct is to put it away, to bury it, destroy it. At Brooklyn College, Archie Rand always said to keep that piece hung in the studio and to stare at it, to communicate with it, to allow for it to loom over our practice a while. He reassured us that it was a pure and honest expression from our gut and eventually it would reveal its purpose. In a similar vain, Kirsten Nash recently curated the exhibit, Pleasure & Pain, for galleryELL.
From studio to exhibition, this series aims to create a venue for honest creativity and a discussion of possibilities.
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