Perception Part 2

Somatic Seeing

Co-Curated by Professor Audrey Goldstein and Gallery Director Deborah Davidson

February 3 – March 6, 2025

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass. Leonardo DaVinci

One of the roles of scientists and artists is to observe and describe the world, there are so many ways to do this. Questions arise: What are the limits of our ability to see? How do we change that? What do we learn by being deeply engaged?  Participating artists Jill Slosburg– Ackerman and Josephine Burr explore what is seen, and what is felt, which can be both internal as well as external, they do so somatically. What is envisioned is gleaned from observation and reflects observing inwardly. Expressing narratives hidden and otherwise, their works are respectively about inquiry, examination, imagination and the real; their materials visceral.

Participating Sculptor/Artists:

Jill Slosburg-Ackerman – sculpture/installation
https://www.jillslosburg-ackerman.com/drawingtosculpture

Josephine Burr – ceramic/installation
https://www.josephineburr.com

Opening reception and gallery talk:
How Do Ideas Make You Feel?
Josephine Burr and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman in conversation Tuesday, February 4 at 5:00pm followed by a reception at 5:30pm
Snow date Thursday, February 11

Programming:
How Do Ideas Make You Feel? The artists in conversation in the gallery – Tuesday, February 4 at 5:00pm, reception to follow, 5:30pm

Ongoing:
VoCA interview with Jill Slosburg – Ackerman
https://vimeo.com/901202439

Library of Somatic Seeing:
Stop by and enjoy a part of the gallery devoted to related books and videos.

Related links: 

Art + Perception, Carol Bove

Seeing Through Drawing

David Brooks: How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society

Drawing: Seeing and Observation

 John Berger: Ways of Seeing

Anish Kapoor: Art21 video

Anish Kapoor is interested in the uncertainty of what an object is, of turning the object inside out.

Theaster Gates