Reflection Refraction Reaction
In this exhibition you will find a panoply of objects and artworks, dancing reflections, and reverberating sounds. As a collective, Courtney Kessel, Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, and Danielle C. Wyckoff are interested in feminist strategies for exhibition: exhibitions that literally reflect, refract, and react in the space. Exhibitions where connection and conversation are more important than authorship. Exhibitions where new collaborative artworks are created in reaction to the space of the gallery.
The artists in this exhibition find common threads through feminist frameworks: their works and practices, both individual and collaborative, prioritize communication, collaboration, and care, although each may manifest in wildly different ways. Whether through a respect for the distinct properties of materials as shown in sculptural and installation work, to the use of dialogue and interaction in performative work, to works on paper developed in meditative moments, to gazes and panoramic spaces documented photographically, and to zines crowdsourced to tell a fuller story and to initiate political change, the artists offer exhibition participants moments of consideration and conversation, moments of directional shifts, and moments of mutual action to create something new.