Artists in Conversation: Joel Swanson
Name:
Artists in Conversation: Joel Swanson
Date:
January 11, 2018
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM MST
Event Description:
Please join current exhibiting artist Joel Swanson for a conversation about his work. Swanson will be discussing his work in Marginalia and will connect it to his larger investigation of language, media, and technology.
Marginalia is on view in the MacMillan Family Lobby and the Hand-Rudy Gallery Dec 8 - Jan 21, 2018. This solo exhibition explores the fundamental but often unnoticed structures of language. Paper, computer screens, and monitors all influence practices of writing and reading, yet due to their ubiquity and ostensible “blankness” these technologies are often taken for granted. Through erasure, repetition, and decontextualization the works in this show hope to highlight how these tools shape our writing, reading, and thinking.
An accompanying body of work in the Hand-Rudy Gallery explores the relationship between names and commodity, specifically names from the Modernist and contemporary art canon. The series of images decontextualize artist’s names from their monographs found in furniture and décor company mail-order catalogs.
Marginalia is on view in the MacMillan Family Lobby and the Hand-Rudy Gallery Dec 8 - Jan 21, 2018. This solo exhibition explores the fundamental but often unnoticed structures of language. Paper, computer screens, and monitors all influence practices of writing and reading, yet due to their ubiquity and ostensible “blankness” these technologies are often taken for granted. Through erasure, repetition, and decontextualization the works in this show hope to highlight how these tools shape our writing, reading, and thinking.
An accompanying body of work in the Hand-Rudy Gallery explores the relationship between names and commodity, specifically names from the Modernist and contemporary art canon. The series of images decontextualize artist’s names from their monographs found in furniture and décor company mail-order catalogs.
