The Surface of Things
Related Members: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Meggan Gould, Myra Greene, Aspen Mays, Brittany Nelson
The Surface of Things brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who use the photogram as a starting point in their examination of environmental, aesthetic or cultural questions. At first glance, a photogram seems simple—it is just a silhouette, made by preventing light from reaching light sensitive paper or other material. It is a shadow, and it can be made without a camera in a dark room. In the hands of these experimenters it becomes so much more—an examination of form, of the nature of objects, of our experience of light and its absence. The works in the exhibition gesture past the image surface (which is so frequently beautiful in these pieces), inviting us to consider the meaning and political weight objects carry and the ways they become metaphors for other things. A thing, and its surface, are never all there is.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Saturday, November 19, 4:00 pm
Anne Wilkes Tucker (curator emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
in conversation with Adam Fuss, Farrah Karapetian, Meggan Gould, Hernease Davis, and Eric Stewart
Artists:
Hernease Davis
Adam Fuss
Tere Garcia
Meggan Gould
Myra Green
Farrah Karapetian
Aspen Mayes
Brittany Nelson
Meghann Riepenhoff
Alison Rossiter
Eric Stewart
Shimpei Taked
