Prolonged Engagement
Esperanza Mayobre, Colirio (Eyedrop), Installation view, 2004
March 25 – May 7, 2011
Artists: N. Dash, Jesal Kapadia, Deana Lawson, Esperanza Mayobre, JJ Peet, Harriet Salmon, and Jaret Vadera.
Curated by: Erin Sickler
Prolonged Engagement is an exhibition that brings together artists who create aesthetic conditions rather than discrete art objects. Finding beauty and ingenuity amidst human imperfection, the artists in Prolonged Engagement allow the world to act upon them as they act upon it. As with tinkerers, inventors, and other radical thinkers, they know that the ah-ha moment is not a singular event, but rather one that absorbs information from the outside world, mixes and remixes it, and allows new ideas and processes to gradually fade into view. Driven by productive antagonisms and juxtapositions, they create complex environments for inquisitiveness and transformation that go beyond simplistic notions of failure and success.
Events:
March 25, 6:00pm: Opening Reception for Prolonged Engagement
April 15, 6:30pm: Artist Talk with Jesal Kapadia
April 29, 6:30pm: Playing to the Senses: An Evening of Food and Discussion with Elizabeth Thacker Jones
Press:
Prolonged Engagement by Laura Bardier for Arte al Dia
