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“Information Is Incidental” Images
Posted in Not Painting, Painting, tagged Art, Art Exhibits, Emily Sall, Geometry In Art, Installation Art, Kansas City, Line, Painting, Paragraph Gallery, Rebecca Ward, Urban Culture Project on June 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Emily Sall/Rebecca Ward “Information Is Incidental”
Posted in Not Painting, Painting, tagged Art, Austin TX, Emily Sall, Installation Art, Kansas City, Painting, Paragraph Gallery, Rebecca S. Ward on June 14, 2009| 16 Comments »
Rebecca Ward, Shiver installation shot
Two reasons I am looking forward to Information Is Incidental, the collaborative exhibition of Kansas City’s Emily Sall and Austin’s Rebecca Ward at Paragraph Gallery in KC :
1. It looks like it’s going to be super visually stimulating— a night of stripes, bands, zig-zags, bends, criss-crossing, depth, flatness. We’re getting individual works from both artists—-paintings by Sall and an installation from Ward—and a collaborative installation by the two artists exploring common ideas of new, old and renewed spaces.
2. This idea of synchronicity is really interesting. The two artists apparently didn’t know each other at all before this process got started. The project was set up by a local curator who saw some affinity between Ward’s and Sall’s work. Both artists agreed lay ego aside and take a risk here.
Rebecca Ward, vector drawings
I asked the two artists how they were preparing for the project.
Rebecca Ward: “In preparing for the show I’ve ordered 183 rolls of tape, made a bunch of vector renderings of the space, emailed back and forth with Emily, played around with isometric graph paper, and rearranged color palettes. I’ve also been drinking lots of tea, wearing my boots, frequenting swimming holes, and I carry my journal with me wherever I go just in case I get any new ideas. That’s pretty much it. I’m super psyched about the show, I can’t wait to meet people in Kansas City and make some art there.”