What is the Skeleton Key?
My next exhibition is only seven months away and already it's in jeopardy. I am not sure what it should be about. I have a very broad concept that relates to a salon pop-up I did last summer titled UNIVERSAL. I am interested in exploring the categorical definitions of art and how they conflict with the universal truths in art.
At this time in history, what I want to call future history [because even though we are living through it now, it doesn't yet feel like anything has resulted from the forces that are shaping our changing minds], there seems to be a need to address greater human concerns--to make work and develop ideas that unite us rather than define our differences. The struggles that distract us from the pursuance of meaning in art practice and art history, such as social conflict or political upheaval, are of less importance than what can be cumulatively stated in art itself. Art reaches to the core of who and what we are, and presents a vision that reaches beyond the contingency of selfish needs or boilerplate agency. How can each of us find something valuable in an image, an object, or an event that is imbued and loaded with meaning? It does not matter if we come to the same conclusions, as long as those conclusions do not become new reasons to separate ourselves from others. Each of us must admit that the integer of meaning we realize is intimately connected to the integer that another comprehends.
This exhibition features images that are representational in an abstract, oblique and complicated way as metaphors for the human condition, exploring everything from mythology to the concept of a matrix.
At this time in history, what I want to call future history [because even though we are living through it now, it doesn't yet feel like anything has resulted from the forces that are shaping our changing minds], there seems to be a need to address greater human concerns--to make work and develop ideas that unite us rather than define our differences. The struggles that distract us from the pursuance of meaning in art practice and art history, such as social conflict or political upheaval, are of less importance than what can be cumulatively stated in art itself. Art reaches to the core of who and what we are, and presents a vision that reaches beyond the contingency of selfish needs or boilerplate agency. How can each of us find something valuable in an image, an object, or an event that is imbued and loaded with meaning? It does not matter if we come to the same conclusions, as long as those conclusions do not become new reasons to separate ourselves from others. Each of us must admit that the integer of meaning we realize is intimately connected to the integer that another comprehends.
This exhibition features images that are representational in an abstract, oblique and complicated way as metaphors for the human condition, exploring everything from mythology to the concept of a matrix.
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