After Structure and Beyond Support
After Structure and Beyond Support are two related and concurrent exhibitions that complicate our accepted notions of support systems as both the formal structures of artworks and necessary aspects of social, cultural, and political life.
After Structure pairs a selection of works from artists Richard Tuttle and Mike Cloud. Tuttle鈥檚 conceptual experimentation is represented by a project completed at USF鈥檚 Graphicstudio in 1995 titled Renaissance Unframed, 25 unique encaustic monotypes on muslin fabric, which are loosely folded and pinned to the wall according to the artist鈥檚 precise instructions.
Where Tuttle鈥檚 works are presented without the constrictions of wooden stretchers, Mike Cloud鈥檚 abstract and iconographic portraits defy their traditional uses and implement wooden stretchers as an artistic medium. Cloud presents a formal reorganization of support systems in a series of paintings that depict people who have been fundamentally unsupported by society in ways that have led to tragic outcomes.
Beyond Support is drawn entirely from the USF Collection. These artworks and the stories of their creators present an expanded idea of support systems, understood as the structures both within the artworks and within the systems that each artist must negotiate in their everyday life. Beyond Support features work by Carlos Amorales, El Anatsui, Abel Barroso, John Cage, Carlos Garaicoa, Barbad Golshiri, Nancy Graves, Robert Huff, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Orta, Tavares Strachan, Richard Tuttle, Siebren Versteeg, and Claude Viallat.
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After Structure and Beyond Support are two related and concurrent exhibitions that complicate our accepted notions of support systems as both the formal structures of artworks and necessary aspects of social, cultural, and political life.
After Structure pairs a selection of works from artists Richard Tuttle and Mike Cloud. Tuttle鈥檚 conceptual experimentation is represented by a project completed at USF鈥檚 Graphicstudio in 1995 titled Renaissance Unframed, 25 unique encaustic monotypes on muslin fabric, which are loosely folded and pinned to the wall according to the artist鈥檚 precise instructions.
Where Tuttle鈥檚 works are presented without the constrictions of wooden stretchers, Mike Cloud鈥檚 abstract and iconographic portraits defy their traditional uses and implement wooden stretchers as an artistic medium. Cloud presents a formal reorganization of support systems in a series of paintings that depict people who have been fundamentally unsupported by society in ways that have led to tragic outcomes.
Beyond Support is drawn entirely from the USF Collection. These artworks and the stories of their creators present an expanded idea of support systems, understood as the structures both within the artworks and within the systems that each artist must negotiate in their everyday life. Beyond Support features work by Carlos Amorales, El Anatsui, Abel Barroso, John Cage, Carlos Garaicoa, Barbad Golshiri, Nancy Graves, Robert Huff, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Orta, Tavares Strachan, Richard Tuttle, Siebren Versteeg, and Claude Viallat.
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