On the Verge of Recognition

curated by

Jeremy Le Grand and Kelda Van Patten

March 5–27, 2022

The distinction between the tangible and the abstract is constantly moving, blurring, tricking us into seeing what's never been there. Or making invisible what we know to be right in front of us. The artists in this exhibition play in the strange space between the knowable and the impossible, between truth and fiction, between the banality and wonder of the everyday. They bask in the surreal feeling of the mundane turned magical, of seeing a pattern in the scattered leaves of a tall shrub, or of repeating a word to the point that it loses all meaning and becomes a strange aural rhythm. There are works that riff on the strangeness of our fleshy forms, the absurdity and limitation of language, or the way a simple change of color can turn a mundane object into a beautiful fascination. They’re poetic, brutal, obtuse, ham-fisted, stoned but articulate, curious and confused and on the nose.

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