HIEROGLYPHS
Works selected by Fairfax Dorn from the
Linda Pace Foundation Collection
November 2, 2012 – January 25, 2013

"Articulate structure - creative process remains on an unconscious inarticulate level where unconscious perceptions communicate themselves directly to the artist's 'automatically' writing hand. So the task of the artist is to 'disintegrate' the articulate and rational surface perception and to call up the secondary processes in the public." Anton Ehrenzweig's The Psycho-Analysis of Artisitc Vision and Hearing: An Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception.

Art is a form of language, emotion, expression and therefore communication. It is a cognitive act. As an artist, visionary and collector, Linda Pace deeply connected with the idea of art as conduit for the voice. Selecting works from the Linda Pace Collection, this exhibition explores the realms between abstraction and textual based work as a system for language.

The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the illegible and legible like inventions of a hieroglyph. Works included are based on either gesture or words - George Baselitz, Forest Bess, Philip Guston, Hans Hoffman, Joan Mitchell, and contemporaries such as Nathan Carter, Trisha Donnelly, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Mona Hatoum, Christian Jankowski, Glenn Ligon, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Annette Messager, Gabriel Orozco, Linda Pace, Cornelia Parker, Mario Perez, Raymond Pettibon, Kiki Smith, Richard Tuttle, and Xu Bing.

Through investigating the irregularities between the gestural and text-based work, one can witness the tension between the verbal and the visual. This exhibition looks at the gravity of the artist's voice through these selected forms. It is through this visual process we attempt to hear and or see a symbol for an emotion and thought- like a translation of language.

Fairfax Dorn
Guest Curator and Interim Program Director

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