ARTISTS
Drama: Story-Telling in Art
05 Feb, 2022 - 19 Mar, 2022
We don鈥檛 like drama in our personal lives --- but we demand it from art. Narrative is king again after a long period of critical banishment. Telling stories is what artists do now. Art has become melodramatic, competing for attention in a media-saturated society. Personal, political, and social issues are often approached through storytelling, as documentary or confession. Down through the centuries, the stories told in art have sustained humanity鈥檚 spirit. The exhibition will discover parallels between worlds we live in --- and worlds we can only imagine.
We don鈥檛 like drama in our personal lives --- but we demand it from art. Narrative is king again after a long period of critical banishment. Telling stories is what artists do now. Art has become melodramatic, competing for attention in a media-saturated society. Personal, political, and social issues are often approached through storytelling, as documentary or confession. Down through the centuries, the stories told in art have sustained humanity鈥檚 spirit. The exhibition will discover parallels between worlds we live in --- and worlds we can only imagine.
Artists on show
- Andrea Borsuk
- Beverly Jacobs
- Brianna Thaxton
- Cindy Del Rio
- David Contreras
- David Pennington
- Dean Charlton
- Don Manderson
- Dorothy Magallon
- Eric Hamlin
- Eve Pericich
- Fatima Jamil
- Heidi Rufeh
- Jeffrey Frisch
- Jodi Bonassi
- John Hogan
- Joy Fire
- Jung ji Lee
- Karen Grace
- Kerri Sabine-Wolf
- Kevin Jacobs
- Kristen Brown
- Kyung Soo Kim
- Leslie Brown
- Lily La Bare
- Lori Markman
- Lorraine Lawson
- Lynn Heinz
- Maria Powys Heiser
- Mark Zanni
- Myles Harrison
- Nicholas Nicola
- Nicole Sullivan
- Rhiannon Valenti
- Robin Repp
- Sarah Delson
- Seongmin Yoo
- Susan Ossman
- Thomas Lasley
- Voytek Glinkowski
- wavi parti
- William Roper
- Yuchi Ma
- Zara Kand
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