REBECA
MÉNDEZ

oct 4, 2014   — jan 18, 2015
williamson gallery at art center college of design 

the painter willem de kooning once said that the idea of space "is given to the artist to change if he can." and of the real, robert rauschenberg opined that a painting "is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world." space in painting is measured on a scale that begins with deep illusion depicting what appears beyond the window of the canvas, and moves successively forward to tangible real tactility in front of the canvas. where an artist chooses to work on that illusion-to-reality scale can have meaning in and of itself, and the modern history of those choices can be viewed as a kind-of archeology of existential change. the exhibition REALSPACE, opening october 4 at art center college of design's williamson gallery, is meant to reflect on how science intersects with that history. real space is what science studies. poeticized by artists throughout human history, the intractable reality of the natural world is examined by contemporary art and artifacts included in REALSPACE.

williamson gallery, art center college of design
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