The Penn State 阿宾顿美术馆 features an exhibit by painter Gerard Brown through March 3.
阿宾顿,爸爸. — 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 is hosting "Know the Enemy," a solo exhibition by Philadelphia 艺术ist and educator Gerard Brown, 到3月3日 Woodland Building 艺术 gallery.
Brown is an educator and 艺术ist who paints passages of writing that fascinate and confuse him, 使用代码, 密码, and laborious techniques that allow for reflection. 偶尔, the messages of these writings compel him to use other techniques and to collaborate with other 艺术ists.
"Gerard Brown's work uses a variety of coding methods to make language visible. His paintings and drawings are meditations on important texts and ideas and invite us to think deeply about contemporary issues through these texts and visual works,” H. 约翰•汤普森, associate teaching professor of 艺术, and 艺术 gallery director.
"Know the Enemy" highlights Brown’s work from the last 12 years. 据布朗说, one theme is how reading and writing can mediate between diverse identities and states of mind. Brown said he has used his painting as an opportunity to ruminate on ideas that emerge from his reading by transcribing passages from 艺术ists and authors that inspire deeper contemplation. To slow the act of reading, 他对这些文本进行编码, which requires a letter-by-letter engagement with his sources.
The resulting paintings celebrate literature’s capacity to help readers overcome isolation or explore the way politicians have weaponized language to polarize the nation. 在这个展览中, drawings and needlework imagine the act of learning to communicate with non-human readers. Taken as a whole, the exhibit offers a chance to reflect on our collective involvement in language.
He has written criticism for the Philadelphia Weekly, Juxtapoz, and Ceramics 艺术 and Perception and has organized exhibits for the Philadelphia 艺术 Alliance, 摩尔艺术学院 & Design, and the Center for 艺术 in Wood. He serves as an associate professor at Temple University’s Tyler School of 艺术 and Architecture.
An opening reception is scheduled for Jan. 18 from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. 在画廊里. A workshop with the 艺术ist, "How to Hide Anything," will be held on Jan. 20. It will briefly explore ways that messages can be generated 使用代码 and 密码, with special attention to the connections between contemporary social media and historical examples, with p艺术icipants generating a few themselves. 回复, (电子邮件保护) as space is limited for the workshop.
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