Physiotasmagorical
@ Evanston Art Center
2603 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, February 20th, at 1PM
On view through Sunday, April 17th
The exhibition will feature artworks that investigate dream and reality in biological imagery, in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculptural installation, and fiber art. Eleven artists will contribute work, including Chicago artists Jerry Bleem, Carolynn Desch, Christa Donnet, LJ Douglas, Annie Heckman, Paul Nudd, Lindsay Obermeyer, and Susan Smith Trees as well as visiting artists Alison Hiltner, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Barbara F Kendrick, from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Artists in this exhibition evoke the Enlightenment-era identity of mystical and medical discovery; their works look inside the human body in the hope of reconciling the quickly evolving world of clinical science with the un-mined depths of the psychic, the dreamlike, and the imaginary. Sensemann states, “The domain of these artists is a spectacle of the unknowable. They question what is inside the body in a quest to define what we are outside… What lies below the surface; organs, blood, cells, neurological, skeletal, cardiovascular, and muscular systems allow us to maintain our beings as humans who can inhabit unique realities.”
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