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26/1/2015

Picture/Thing

The Zilkha Gallery - Wesleyan University, Middletown

Curated by Sasha Rudensky, Jeffrey Schiff

Picture/Thing, an exhibition curated by Assistant Professor of Art (Photography) Sasha Rudensky and Professor of Art (Sculpture) Jeffrey Schiff, presents works by ten artists who make hybrid objects that challenge the limits of photography and sculpture. The exhibition features works by Kendall Baker, Isidro Blasco, Rachel Harrison, Leslie Hewitt, Jon Kessler, Anouk Kruithof, Marlo Pascual, Mariah Robertson, Erin Shirreff, and Letha Wilson. The exhibition will be on view in the Main Gallery of Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, located at 283 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, Connecticut from Tuesday, January 27, through Sunday, March 1. Gallery admission is free.

"The proliferation of digital photographs, created and shared without ever taking a material form, makes us question our relationship with physicality," says Jeffrey Schiff. "Contemporary artists recognize this development, but also contest it by grounding photographs in material objects."

"In this exhibition, the content of the photographic image as a representational object gives way to the experience of perception itself," says Sasha Rudensky. "By shifting between two and three dimensionality, we are asked to be conscious of our viewership and to question the historic conventions of photography and sculpture."

The artists featured in the exhibition take varying approaches to material, technology, and presentation, expanding and redrawing the traditional perimeters of both. Defying photography's specificity as a "window onto the world," some prioritize the materiality of the photograph over the actual image, while others migrate the graphic flatness of the photograph into the full dimensionality of the sculptural realm. Undoubtedly a response to the immateriality and infinite reproducibility of digital technology, the surveyed works insist on both the physical presence and uniqueness associated with sculpture, and the indexical relationship to the physical world exemplified by photography, resulting in a new formulation: a picture/thing.

Image: Anouk Kruithof, Façade, 2014. Inkjet prints, plexiglass, polystyrene, cellophane foil, bricks; 55.5 x 43.3 x 39.4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Boetzelaer|Nispen.

Opening: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 from 5pm to 6:30pm; Talk by the curators at 5:30pm.

Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Main Gallery
Wesleyan University
283 Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday noon–5pm

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