Perception

Perception is essential to the visual arts—we know art because we can perceive it. But can we trust that perception? Presided over by a giant brain and a pair of weeping eyes, this exhibition confronts us with static paintings that seem to move, diagrams that teach us nothing, and impossibly flattened models of perspectival space.

All of the artworks in Perception have been chosen from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Several of the pieces are new acquisitions, including a painting on aluminum by Thomas Burke, a fabric sculpture by Denise R. Duarte, a ceramic work by Dirk Staschke, and a neon sculpture by Thomas Ray Willis.

The exhibition also features work by Deborah Aschheim, Chad Brown, Diane Bush, Tomoko Daido, Jack Endewelt, Ripper Jordan, Kara Joslyn, Julie Oppermann, Brian Porray, Harry Roseman, James Stanford, Laurens Tan, John Torreano, Mikayla Whitmore, and Cindy Wright.