"Imploding Meaning: Tale-less Tales About Absolutely Nothing and Everything In Between"
Starts: Thu, January 19, 2023
Ends: Wed, March 01, 2023
Reception:
Thu, January 26, 2023,
5 pm
- 7 pm
The James W. Palmer III Gallery
College Center, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY
M. Pettee Olsen 86 PT, Michael Oatman 86 PT and Rosanne Walsh 87 FAV, together with curator Monica Church 86 PR, revisit each other through their work in Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery.
Imploding Meaning: Tale-less Tales About Absolutely Nothing and Everything In Between will be on view from January 19–March 1, 2023.
The four artists met at RISD years ago. Though each artist's approach is different, a through line in their work is an embodied openness to interpretation, evoking experience and invoking a call to simply behold the work and the world.
“Consider the wordless story; with no beginning, middle or end”: a Zen kōan for our times.
“Mardi Gras” (2021, acrylic, antique cane and composite sail material, 12 x 34 x 1”) by Monica Church. Image provided by the artist.
Detail of “Imitation of Life, or, The Fossil Record” (2020, collage of historic book clippings in paper CD sleeves, with binder clips and thumb tacks, 2’ x 2’ groupings of 25 images each) by Michael Oatman. image credit: Michael Oatman.
“Falling Away” (2022, synthetic and luminous paint on canvas, 60 x 144”) by M. Pettee Olsen. Image provided by the artist.
“Ancestral Familiar” (2022, collage on acrylic painted paper with fungus clump, 18 x 12”) by Rosanne Walsh. Image credit: Rosanne Walsh.
“Every Cloud has a Silver Lining” (72 x 39.5”) by Monica Church. Image provided by the artist.
