“Building It Both Ways” explores the double nature of artistic production, from drawings and paintings to prints and other media on paper, along the concepts and modes of reproduction that push image-making towards alternate routes of expression and thought.
As an impetus for this exhibit, the project of printmaking is highlighted for its ability to foster the culture of the copy – a sign of postmodernity, in dismantling the so-called aura of authenticity through a wide array of information exchange and its iteration – a vast network of mutable subjects. Thus, works in the exhibit exploit the condition and process of sequential imagery, photo based replication, collage, gestural fragmentation and abstraction, in addition to repetition as a conceptual tactic in the stimulation of simulacra.
Building It Both Ways also emphasizes the role of play and intuition, seen as stylistic glitches in the system, such that solutions to artistic concerns can be two-fold, or malleable in scale but with similar traits, and perhaps, with a double take, pushing conventions inside out to incredible ends.
-Mai Saporsantos
Works
Portrait of Jessie the Theorist
Pie-Rated II
Stitching Parts of Home IV; Forget Me Not Card
Good But Bad
Jerome & Laura's Choices and Conversations
Ghost, Writing & Express
Untitled
Lesson Plan Zine
Counting the People By Reading Their Numbers
Stretchy
Bad But Good
Tactile Memory I
Tactile Memory III
Tactile Memory II
Stitching Parts of Home III
Tactile Memory IV
Untitled
Tropics
Stitching Parts of Home I & II
A Few Loose Ends
Documentation
