Space Was the Place
August 25-September 25
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery 51
51 Main St., North Adams, MA
Featuring:
Ivan Argote
Hackworth Ashley
Steven Millar
Gary Nickard & Patty Wallace
Julian Osti
Paul Lloyd Sargent
Alex Young & Chris Skinner
Curated by Alex Young
Space Was the Place brings together a collection of works that address disdain for the present, yearning for knowledge, attempts to attain perfectability in the establishment of utopian Otherness, and the subsequent potential for disconnection between intent and end results within the realm of human action. Encapsulating a wide field of subject and approach, the artists involved are united in their work as historians of sorts—addressing politics and poetics emerging from the particularities of an era’s epistemes—neither offering empty annals nor simple nostalgia, but rather enacting isolated investigations into histories that evidence possibility and desire.
