To learn about Jason Hughes' current curatorial project, Vision Quest, on view at School 33 Art Center August 21 - October 4, 2008, please visit School 33's website.
Through the use of painting, drawing, and sculpture each of these four artists employ subject matter intended to elicit a sense of connectivity through the mysteries of what we experience. Electromagnetic fields, radiation, meditation, prayer, hallucinations, melancholy, transcendence, paranoia, and the subconscious are all themes used by these artists in expressing the infinite, unknown, or unavoidable, which ultimately binds us all irrevocably. Landscapes, mindscapes, faces and eyes are introduced over heavily worked surfaces, painstaking patterning, and intricate representation. As a result there is a dynamic shift in perspective that occurs between the visible and the invisible or the observed and the observer. While this dualism can be interpreted in many ways, Vision Quest emphasizes the longing for balance between the psychic realm and the physical world, while paying tribute to the process in striving to do so.
Featured artists include:
Seth Adelsberger, Sarah Gamble, James Johnson, Patrick O’Malley, and Christine Buckton Tillman