More Than What My Hands Can Hold

Statement:

I typically don't like thematic group shows. In fact, I don't believe we've presented one with a curatorial premise in over 29 years of exhibitions. And, I suppose that trend continues. But, over the past few years our Environmental crisis has been on everyone's tongue. So, we recognized a handful of artists that we admire, who were quietly considering our fraught entanglement with the natural world. Their work doesn’t offer didactic platitudes, but instead offers an interpretation of what’s inside them, a person’s most basic orientation toward the world. Philosophers repeatedly consider the way we live our lives on the cusp of inner and outer worlds, always absorbed within our inner world while at the same time existing within the external environment. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.