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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: Resistance to Vision - 9 Nov 2007 to 7 Dec 2007 Current Exhibition |
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Margaret Whiting
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RESISTANCE TO VISION Searching, Sifting, Finding, Seeing Curated by Dana Saulnier Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center November 9 - December 7, 2007 Creative work is often ninety percent not seeing what one hopes to see. Rejection and destruction accompany the fragmentary and ambiguous episodes of seeing, that are the constant companions of the instincts, intuitions, and insights born of creative actions. This is true of many different processes of visual art from naturalism to abstraction. Naturalism is haunted by the plenitude of vision whereas abstraction frequently sets out to make visible, or generate, what is not yet seen. For this exhibit we sought work that makes visible an active process of seeing and making as necessary to its aesthetic. Resistance to Vision presents a collection of works where searching and sifting, �seeing in� and �seeing as� are the visible givens of creative dialogue. Resistance to Vision received nearly 350 entries from 130 artists from 30 states and nine different countries. The results of the intense jury/curatorial process will present 16 works artists from 8 different states. A public lecture by Professor Saulnier will accompany this exhibit on November 29th at the University of Cincinnati, College of DAAP, rm 5401 at 6p.m. A drawing will be held for free copies of the exhibit catalog and other Manifest publications to be given out after the lecture. The 48 page exhibit catalog will feature an 11 page curatorial essay by Professor Saulnier. The catalog will be available here: www.manifestgallery.org/manifestpress Introductory paragraph: Resistance to Vision as an organizing principle for this exhibition arises out of a number of ideas and observations-- all having to do with thinking about creative practices. A lot of this comes directly out doing creative work, as well as helping others find their own artistic voice. The same thinking also lends itself to an argument that distinguishes the visual in the face of contemporary theories that center on language. For several generations much theory has taken the operation of language as the fundamental framework for understanding cultural forms. The �linguistic turn� in theory is the prevalent mode of postmodernism. This project compiles a set of ideas meant to position �resistance� and �blindness� as productive orientations to the visual. The Artists Include: Erin Enderle (Cincinnati, Ohio) Nicole Foran (Cincinnati, Ohio) J Brett Grill (Columbia, Missouri) Kenneth Hall (Oxford, Ohio) Yumiko Irei-Gokce (Inverness, Illinois) Irina Koukhanova (Brecksville, Ohio) David Chapman Lindsay (Lubbock, Texas) Nickolus Meisel (Pullman, Washington) Armin Mersmann (Midland, Michigan) Joseph Morzuch (Woodway, Texas) Kurt Nicaise (Covington, Kentucky) Yvonne Petkus (Bowling Green, Kentucky) Stephanie Sypsa (Columbus, Ohio) Kamila Szczesna (Galveston, Texas) Art Werger (Athens, Ohio) Margaret Whiting (Waterloo, Iowa) What you�ll see: - entire books, manipulated and re-formed as works of art - a painting in space - various works of photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and drawing - a veritable sea of humanity Manifest is funded in part by: The City of Cincinnati, The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Fine Arts Fund, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and the NLT Foundation. |
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