From Our Permanent Recollection Barbara Friedman and Roger Sayre combine to show work that deals with portraiture and time. Each approaches their respective media with tactile intensity - Friedman with rich paint and very physical drawings, and Sayre with photography using a large, hand-built camera and long exposures. In both of their work there is the feeling that our identity is embedded in the physical, which although vividly present is nevertheless ellusive, un-graspable. From Da Vinci, through Vermeer to Gerhard Richter and beyond, the soft or blurred image has been used to create some of the most enduringly mysterious and 'living' images. Friedman and Sayre have embedded those qualities in both their subject matter and the fabric of their approach.
Hair Tactics explores hair as subject matter and medium. Increasingly, artists have begun to use both real and synthetic human hair to create works of art. Some use synthetic hair because it is widely and inexpensively available in urban neighborhoods, others because it is laden with social and political meaning, and still others because they are exploring the human obsession with hair. Texts written in hair, fancy hair motifs used to decorate a love letter, extravagant and multi-colored wigs, drawings featuring hair-covered bodies, and ladies with elaborate up-dos are all included in the exhibition. Painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, video and installation will all be included.
Artists in the exhibition include Amina Ahmed, Elia Alba, Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardottir), Firelei Baez, Nina Lola Bacchuber, Melody Boone, Melissa Calderon, Ursula Endlicher, Zachary Fabri, Carson Fox, Asha Ganpat, Bill Gaskins, Ren?e Green, Hermanas Igelsias (Janelle and Lisa Iglesias), Kristina Jacob, Tamara Kostianovsky, Jessica Lagunas, Simone Leigh, Sharon Louden, Felicia Megginson, Irvin Morazan, Omar Obdulio Pena Forty, Sa'dia Rehman, Kenya (Robinson), Nadine Robinson, Roger Sayre, Roger Tucker III, Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jayoung Yoon, and So Yoon Lym.
