Exhibition: The Chicken & the Egg

Artists celebrate narrative, personal and universal, through a variety of media.

Exhibition Title: The Chicken and the Egg

Before there is writing or drawing, there is simply image.

People are innately moved to make marks, and as children we all work fluidly between the symbolic systems of pictures and letters, using both at will to freely express our world, as it is and as we wish it to be, without formal constraint. The artists in this exhibition continue to embrace this holistic approach, marrying symbolic freedom to mature narrative, in a creative domain unconstrained by imposed rules of language or material.

This liminal space yields divergent and imaginative formal outcomes: the works in this show span from comics to sculpture, textile to paint, often in hybridized forms. While some of the works directly address innocence, or call tropes of childhood to mind, they do so while bearing the unmistakable imprimatur of adult knowledge. Intimate, relatable, human moments emerge, alongside big, fundamental, even eternal, feelings and experiences, often on an enormous, transgenerational scale, but fully realized in all their beauty, tragedy and complexity.

Exhibition Hours and Events

  • Exhibition on view: February 2 – April 13, 2024
    Gallery hours:     Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
    Closed for spring break March 16 – 25, 2024
  • Opening reception: February 8, from 7:30 – 9 p.m.
    Opening artist lecture: Sakura Maku in CA 2032 at 6:30 p.m. 
  • Artist lecture: Krystle Lemonias, March 14, CA 2032 at 6:30 p.m.

Artists

Installation Views

Lecture by Artist Sakura Maku

Lecture by Artist Jenny Reed

This exhibition and related programming supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.