Friday, Oct. 7, 2016
06:30 PM – 09:00 PM
US/Central
Celebrate the opening of A Traveling Show, an exhibition featuring work by Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen. Open to the public and free to attend; the opening reception will be complete with a cash bar on the Museum terrace. All ages are welcome.
About the Opening Reception
A Traveling Show is anchored by the chronological presentation of Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen's ongoing series of mailed correspondences consisting of drawings, photocopied articles, collages, and other printed matter that evidences a shared appreciation for words, linguistic play, and humor. Along with this presentation of call and response letters and packages, the exhibition is augmented by a selection of each artist's work. Matt Keegan’s conceptually driven practice explores interstices of words and images, revealing that the desire to communicate personal experience is subjective, codified, and mutable. Kay Rosen’s work with language implicates its readers as agents whose mental gymnastics bring her propositions to their logical conclusions. These arrivals are often accompanied by a “Eureka!” moment when Rosen’s spatial restructurings of letters come into focus. Presented publicly for the second time, Keegan and Rosen’s private exchange alternately functions like a magnifying glass, a sextant, a decoder ring, and a serial novel. It offers a behind-the-scenes view of a friendship and active dialogue sparked by a shared dedication to bridging language and visuality, and it exemplifies the personal investigations and inspirations at play in Keegan and Rosen’s unique artistic vocabularies.
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