Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist whose work often takes form as research and critical practice to investigate relationships between scientific inquiry and cultural artifice. For her projects Invisible (2014) and DNA Spoofing (2013), Dewey-Hagborg employs biometrics - biological identifiers of a person's behaviors, movements, and characteristics - to engage issues of genetic surveillance. The featured piece above, Invisible, plays with concepts of genetic privacy by turning paranoia into a commodity.

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Artist Sophie Calle's work Unfinished, above, is part of a larger series titled Cash Machine, which the artist began in 1991. After obtaining numerous images from an ATM security camera stored at a police station in Minneapolis, MN, Calle found herself pursuing what would become a perplexing fifteen-year investigation.

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We are thrilled to announce the opening of A.I.R. Space, a gallery dedicated to featuring work by our very own artists-in-residence. As we continue to showcase national and international contemporary art, this space will offer local artists the opportunity to gain recognition in a museum setting.

 

For the inaugural exhibition, Polarities, Jonathan Frioux threads colors together across a coordinate system and reaches back to the past to find forms for the present. Frioux experiments with the grid - a pictorial theme commonly found in modern art - in order to allude to systems of sequence and order. Through Frioux's gestures of pushing, pulling, shifting, and distorting the grid, pairs of foils begin to highlight new ways of seeing.

 

"The simple forms hearken back to the ocean," explains Frioux. "The grid billows and shrinks, becoming broken nets or open windows. Just as the lines are constantly pushed and pulled, the viewer is dragged through the undertow and rolled towards far-reaching horizons."

We are pleased to welcome Paul Crow, Shawn Porter, and Jean Richardson as the newest members of our Artists-In-Residence (A.I.R.) program. The A.I.R. program has flourished since its inception in 2013. Among other opportunities, it continues to offer residents museum support, special access to visiting artists and lecturers, and exhibition opportunities in our exciting new A.I.R. Space.

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