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Grounds
University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present the exhibition Grounds from May 20 through August 6, 2024. All events are free and open to the public.
The objects in this exhibition were selected to encourage viewers to pay close attention to some dimension of their form that might, in another context, disappear into the background. Empty space, white paper, raw canvas, and other subordinate formal elements are emphatic makers of meaning in these works. By foregrounding what are traditionally the passive causes of meaning in art, Grounds emphasizes one of art's primary functions: to train our comprehension of the aspects of experience that, though vanishing, make meaning possible in the first place. These aspects are grounds, without which there would be nothing.
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University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present the exhibition Grounds from May 20 through August 6, 2024. All events are free and open to the public.
The objects in this exhibition were selected to encourage viewers to pay close attention to some dimension of their form that might, in another context, disappear into the background. Empty space, white paper, raw canvas, and other subordinate formal elements are emphatic makers of meaning in these works. By foregrounding what are traditionally the passive causes of meaning in art, Grounds emphasizes one of art's primary functions: to train our comprehension of the aspects of experience that, though vanishing, make meaning possible in the first place. These aspects are grounds, without which there would be nothing.
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