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Sharmyn Cruz Rivera
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Contact
Corrosive Like Salt Water
An Image for a Vessel
Fiction Within
La Vista: mamihlapinatapai

An Image for a Vessel

January 26 -June 29, 2018

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation


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.

Photo credit: 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

An Image for a Vessel

January 26 -June 29, 2018

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation


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.

Photo credit: 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