DIALOGUES OF PLACE: Taking Place, On Place, Engaging Place

DIALOGUES OF PLACE: 
Taking Place, On Place, Engaging Place 

Thea Abu El-Haj, Nancy Agati, Tom Csaszar, 
Mikel Elam, Michael Kowbuz, Ying Li,
Kate McCammon, Lisa Volta & Mark Willie 

Tom Csaszar, Guest Curator 

September 4 - 29, 2024 
Dialogues of Place Virtual Tour & Talk

Place in its diverse meanings engages a profound sense of our experience. It encompasses dynamic and visceral responses to the world and people around us. Our communities are places, our intimacies are places, our governing bodies are places, our public discussions fail if they don’t define places. And works of visual art are themselves places. The works in this exhibit are responses to place, but are also themselves locations and places.

Each work of art is a site that discloses how the world is for us in our bodies: our delights and fragility. This sense of intelligence and place is not accessible by ideas that are worldless and placeless. A shared human sense of place and emotion is deeper than an artificial intelligence of generated chains of conclusions.

As Thea Abu El-Haj states, “our memories are also places—embodied connections to space and place.” Ying Li adds that rhythm and improvisation reveal a connection to place, through our active on-going dialogue with how a subject sees place. Each work here provides such a dialogue.  

 

Abu El-Haj, Half-Life in Exile, oil on board, 24" x 24"  Available 


Abu El-Haj, Last Night, oil on board, 24" x 24"  Available 


Abu El-Haj, Spring After All, oil on board, 24" x 24"  Available 


Abu El-Haj, What is Left Behind, oil on board, 24" x 24"  Available 


Agati, Redline - Critical Trends, mixed media on board, 44" x 30"  Available 


Csaszar, Forge with Broken Column After Tiepelo, oil on linen, 18" x 22"  Available 

 
Csaszar, Diners and Delivery, oil on linen, 27" x 15"  Available 


Csaszar, Returning Later to Where We Met, oil on linen, 22" x 24"  Available 


Elam, The Illusionist Always Knows, mixed media on board, 20" x 20"  Available 


Elam, Nubain Ceremonial Vibrations, mixed media on wood, 30" x 30"  Available 


Kowbuz, Summer Sunrise Window, ink, watercolor & gouache, 7" x 5"  Available 


Kowbuz, Reflection of Things to Come, ink, watercolor & gouache, 5.5" x 6.5"  Available 


Kowbuz, Sunglass Pair, ink, watercolor & gouache, 6.5" x 10.5"  Available 


Li, Jim, charcoal on paper, 30" x 23"  Available 


Li, South Towards Wyoming Street, oil on linen, 36" x 48"  Available 


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Washed Away), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available 


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Wedding Date), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Sand), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Parts Work), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Spruce Street), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Grandfather and Granddaughter), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Alone), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Fence), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


McCammon, Journal Portrait (Orange Mood), photo collage, 6" x 4"  Available


Volta, Al Jisr, oil & graphite on paper, 36" x 21"  Available 


Volta, The Power and Helplessness of Crossing Borders on Screens, oil, graphite & lacquer on paper, 36" x 21"  Available


Wille, Untitled 5, stone lithograph on paper, 12" x 16"  Available 


Willie, Landscape 3, stone lithograph & acrylic on paper, 16" x 12"  Available