As Night Strolled Over to See What's Up

As Night  features the work of six artists who engage the
countless duplicate, lending strangeness to everyday objects. 

In magazines, metro cards,
and tuna cans we are reminded of the print's ability to replicate imagery
quickly and cheaply. Artists working in print adopt a medium with the potential
for nearly infinite reproduction. And then they make ten. Or three. Or one.
Fine art printmaking holds within it a peculiar tension: the technology of
mass-production mobilized for limited edition. The works on view explore the
tools and texture of commercial printing, adopting strategies so familiar, we
may even forget that they are prints. The works generate a conversation between
handmade and mechanized, rarefied and endlessly reproducible, ubiquitous
and unique.

The show takes its title from the final line of
Charles Simic's The Lunatic. The poem
hinges on a familiar contradiction: a unique snowflake looped infinitely. What
was singular becomes the storm, becomes the winter, becomes the weather. Like
Simic's snowflake, the works on view unearth a potential for poetry and memory
rooted in the vernacular of print. Though singular, these works gain new
meaning as they join the storm.

Exhibiting Artists - Glen
Baldridge, Robin Cameron, Eve Fowler, Michael Krueger, Phyllis Ma, and Chris
Thorson

The Lunatic 

By
Charles Simic

The same
snowflake 

kept falling out of the gray sky 

all afternoon, 

falling and falling

and picking itself up off the ground, 

to fall again, 

but now more surreptitiously, 

more carefully 

as night strolled over 

to see what’s up.