BETWEEN MATTER and EXPERIENCE

Between Matter and Experience is a group exhibition that represents the work of nine contemporary painters. While the visual vocabularies are diverse, there exists a shared humanist perspective that suggests the way it feels to move through the world without feigned knowing or emotional distance, expressing an openness to sensation of both paint and subject.

The work reflects attention to the overlooked, the intimate, the awkward and imperfect, appreciates mystery, and possesses a curiosity for things hidden. In all the work, there is a suggestion of the existence of something not entirely present.

This "between" state takes the form of the tension between abstraction and representation, between image and the physical form of the paint, and where a quality is present that resists naming.

At the heart of this view, is the idea that this attention to humanness inspires a range of voices.

This show grew from a small, casual dialogue between a few of the painters in this show into a larger discussion on painting. The original conversations traced the threads of continuity that weave through the work of these artists from different cities and generations.

Partly facilitated by the personal relationships that connect them, or maybe as a result of seeing each other's work, but most likely due to something much more far-reaching and complex, these painters share an attitude on painting that manifests in quite different visual expressions. The decision for this particular grouping is to draw attention to how diverse that expression can be.

Participating Artists:

Betsey Batchelor
Katherine Bradford
Sarah Gamble
Lauren Garvey
Aubrey Levinthal
Bonnie Levinthal
Sarah McEneaney
Krista Profitt
Eleanor Ray

June 4th – July 3rd
Reception: Thursday, June 5th, 3-5pm

President's Office
The University of the Arts
Hamilton Hall
320 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 – 5 pm