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Exhibition Dates
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January 3rd – March 15th, 2015
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Exhibition Title
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Mot Juste: Textual
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Overview
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A celebration of text and language in contemporary visual arts
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Celebrating the humanities and the newly renovated Karp Hall, the Mandeville Gallery presents a three-part exhibition exploring intersections between the humanities and the visual arts during winter term 2015. The show features contemporary artists working in video, drawing, installation, film, bookmaking, photography and printmaking.
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The Mandeville Gallery is extremely grateful for the co-sponsorship of Mot Juste from the Modern Languages and Literature Department, the English Department, and the Schaffer Library, which has made this project and the related project programming possible. For more information on the events associated with this exhibition, please see our Events page.
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Textual features contemporary artists employing letters and words within the visual art context to convey satirical humor, voice political opinion, question linguistic meaning, and examine communication.
The pieces on view in this exhibition represent a diverse range of iconic word-based arrangements including a desktop calendar, diary entries, movie script, and Chinese scrolls, while referencing specific texts such as the Constitution of the United States of America, The New York Times, the Periodic Table, Twitter and authored books, all dovetailed with an array of artistic mediums from fine art prints, painting on paper, and collage; to installation art, aerial sculpture, and video art.
Artists: Alex Gingrow, Michael Scoggins, Bang Geul Han, Cui Fei, Amanda Tiller, Shanti Grumbine, and Sujin Lee, as well as a piece from the Union College Permanent Collection by William Powhida.
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Curated by
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Julie Lohnes, Curator of Art Collections and Exhibitions
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Place(s) Exhibited
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Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, 2nd Floor
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Reception & Other Events
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Opening Reception
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
5:00 – 6:30 pm
At the Nott Memorial
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Distracted Wreading: Multimedia Event & Discussion
February 17th, 2015 @ 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Karp Hall
Tony Cokes, artist and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, will present and discuss his video work.
