Alice Tippit: On Defense
@ PEREGRINEPROGRAM
500 W Cermak Rd, 727, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 30th
In her paintings and scanned images Alice Tippit is concerned with breaking down the hierarchical relationships in assumed meanings. Her paintings have the visual clarity of signs, yet they are inscrutable: clear and authoritative in appearance but ambiguous in their content. The scanned images, taken directly from books, photographs, and ephemera, approach the assumed taxonomical pairings of information. In her work, relationships are created by treating language and images not as easily sorted and coded units, but as conversations, disrupting the capacity to recognize, identify and categorize information based on previous connotations. In On Defense, Tippit complicates the exchanges by situating her work around a painting by her grandmother.
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