new work by:
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ROSS CAMPBELL
MALIEA CROY
SARINA EASTMAN
STEPHEN KEY
CAT LAUIGAN
AMY MORRELL
EMMA SPERTUS
JEFF STRATFORD
Contemporary art is not modern, it's present-day. The understanding of which requires involvement in a dialogue that has not been relegated to the understood, thereby rendered a-quiescent. In other words, the less you know you know the more you don't know you have to learn. In better words, the more you know you don't know the better you know you must learn, and still be humbled by movement; e.g. the present-day.
So this is confusing, as it should be. The art world is reflecting on itself within the global economic climate; " I have to lose weight" says the art world, "I have too many shoes and my head hurts. Who are all these people studying me anyway? They only want my body...sigh, not what's inside."
Neccesarily we have responded to this sentiment by producing a media blurring, identity shifting and all around voluntary fugue state composed of video, painting, drawing, animation and sculpture performing on a platform of group installation. Group drawings for sale by the square foot and an environment which twists and turns on itself up until the doors open @ 6pm on May 1st. And there will be a May Pole.
This exhibition is sponsored by John Keats.
"I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason-Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
