Current Exhibitions

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April 27 - September 16, 2012

Organized by SECCA; Curated by Steven Matijcio

Made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Also supported by Danish Arts Council; the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam; and The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation

The medium of paper is a fragile vehicle – carrying the weight of written thought, but acutely vulnerable to travel, climate, and time. This endangered status accelerates in an increasingly digitized and environmentally conscious society, where the “paperless economy” is turning said material into simultaneous antiquity and the abject. Yet even as paper struggles against …

Light and Space: The Sculpture of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová

April 27 - August 5, 2012

Organized by SECCA, Curated by Mark Richard Leach

This exhibition features one of the most comprehensive displays of the 40-year collaborative career of Czech artists Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová. The 20 cast-glass sculptures assembled for this exhibition highlight the couples’ intrigue with the optical qualities that three-dimensional, geometric glass forms possess.  Brilliant lighting charges the planar glass surfaces, creating perceptually ambiguous and …

Tracey Snelling: Woman on the Run

March 1 – May 27, 2012

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and SECCA, Curated by Trinita Kennedy & Steven Matijcio

Across corner stores and cinematic histories, Tracey Snelling’s cross-disciplinary installations mine the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of small town America. Marrying life-size rooms, videos, neon, and an array of “clues,” Woman on the Run provides a film-noir-like setting for an enigmatic crime story where both the narrative and the protagonist remain fugitive.