The Curious and the Profound
April 23 – July 8, 2005
Featuring works by:
Wanyu Chou
Kermit C. Davis
Mark Dutcher
Ruth Jervis
Matt Lucero
Rafe Mandel
ORION
Judi Russel
Leigh Salgado
Organized by Lisa Adams
Opening reception event: Saturday, May 7, 6:00 – 8:30pm
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica
18th Street Arts Center presents the group art show, “The Curious and the Profound,” curated by Lisa Adams, April 23-July 8, 2005 at 18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica. The reception will be Saturday, April 23, 6-8:30pm. The show opens and runs simultaneously with new drawings by Kim Schoenstadt. Both exhibitions are funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Lisa Adams (Curator):
An artist who curates assumes a specific position; in theory one that knows artwork from the inside out. It’s similar to making one’s own work; it’s a kind of knowing experience that fits itself around the margins of theory. To theorize the making of artwork is not the making of artwork.
Since I am the one who perceives, so is it that I perceive artists assuming a position similar to my own. I’m attracted to this way of seeing the world and responding.
The artists I’ve selected for this exhibition make work that does not look like mine, nor do they look like each other. They bear resemblance to each other mainly in attitude. Their view of the world is hermetic, insular, dynamically obsessive, and personal. Most importantly, it derives from a worldview and logic system of their own invention.
