August 12 – October 7, Gallery 4
Curated by Pat Swanson
Featuring work by Lisa Barense, Stephanie Brooks, Lucy Baxandall, Brian Dettmer, Katheryn Kucera, Material Exchange, Mark Rospenda and Rhonda Wheatley.
Another Story examines the range of conceptual, abstract, and figurative approaches that artists use when the book or its surrogate is at the heart of their investigations. The exhibition concentrates on new or recent works by Lisa Barense, Stephanie Brooks, Lucy Baxandall, Brian Dettmer, Katheryn Kucera, Material Exchange, Mark Rospenda and Rhonda Wheatley.
When an artist conceives a work that starts with a book, a page, or a text, there may already be a story or a meaning implicit. How an artist uses (or ignores) that story as a starting point to extend, celebrate, imitate, distort, or warp the underlying item to make a new work of art. Some artists featured in this exhibition make books, others alter them, deconstruct them, mimic or satirize their forms, appropriate or obliterate their texts, or re-contextualize them.