An Image for a Vessel
January 26 -June 29, 2018
Carris Adams
Yani Aviles
Stephen Eichhorn
Erin Hayden
Lesley Jackson
Alejandro Jimenez-Flores
Thomas Kong
Aay Preston-Myint
Deb Sokolow
Ruby T
Philosophical inquiries into the power that language holds in culture and society have become central to discussions of representation and materiality in the twenty-first century. The privileging of language as the primary determinant of meaning gives grammatical discourse a disproportionate role in determining how we understand and relate to the world. Humans’ dependence on language is so strong and pervasive that, in the occasion of unpacking its power and reach, it is apparent that language is consistently prioritized over matter as the chief locus of meaning in our daily lives. This relationship is paramount when talking about the making, discourse, and dissemination of images. An Image for a Vessel looks to text and symbolism in artistic expression to highlight how language operates as an attributing system that reifies the identities of objects, nature, the self, or others.
Photographs by Robert Chase Heishman
Alejandro Jiménez-Flores, early roses, 2017
Lesley Jackson, Singing to Stones Before Work, 2017
Yani
Aviles, Today is a killer, 2017
Deb Sokolow, Dale Carnegie does not tell me what to do., 2016
Deb Sokolow, Carpet Patterns, 2016
Erin Hayden, Whatever Forever, 2017
Carris
Adams, Untitled, 2017