Engaging the Margins
Engaging the Margins
Co-curated by Antoinette LaFarge and Jesse Colin Jackson
Artists:
Ava Aviva Avnisan
Rebecca Cummins
Krista-Leigh Davis
Yvette Granata and Alina Nazmeeva
Catherine Griffiths
Nina Vroemen
Jennifer Willet
Jiayi Young
Jan. 25-April 19, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 25, 2025, 2 p.m.
Beall Center for Art + Technology
Engaging the Margins presents the work of contemporary artists committed to experimenting in the marginal areas where artmaking, practice-based research, and scholarship intersect. Some of the selected artists stage their work in laboratory settings, some in studios, and some in wild or abandoned landscapes, but all interrogate the ways in which art is positioned in a culture that continues to marginalize artists working across disciplinary boundaries. The artists were among those featured in Jackson and LaFarge's anthology Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins (Brill, 2024), which will launch alongside the exhibition.
Engaging the Margins is supported by The Beall Family Foundation.
Image credit: Rebecca Cummins, Shooting Stars: Benjamin Moore, 2007. Digital print, 24 X 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Image credit: Photo by Thomas DeFrantz; design by Philip Thompson
On Saturday, Jan. 25, at 4 p.m., a performance of White Privilege will take place in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL). Experience both the Engaging the Margins exhibition and the White Privilege performance all in one day!
Quran Karriem, composer/performer of White Privilege, is featured in the book project that led to Engaging the Margins and an interview with him is part of the exhibition. The book, Antoinette LaFarge's and Jesse Colin Jackson's anthology Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins (Brill, 2024), launches alongside the exhibition.
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Image credit: Rebecca Cummins, Shooting Stars: Benjamin Moore, 2007. Digital print, 24 X 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
The Beall Center for Art + Technology opens the exhibition Engaging the Margins on Saturday, Jan. 25, with an opening reception at 2 p.m. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 p.m., through April 19. Experience both the White Privilege performance and the Engaging the Margins exhibition all in one day!