PERCEPTION PART 2: SOMATIC SEEING

FEBRUARY 4 - MARCH 6, 2025

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

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.