Los Angeles Valley College is pleased to announce tautline, a new project by Portland-based artist and educator Karl Burkheimer.
Exhibition runs Sept. 19-Dec. 6, 2018
Artist talk: Friday Sept. 14, 12:15p, LAVC Art Department room 103
Reception for the artist: Wednesday Sept. 19, 6-8p
Gallery Director walk through: Wednesday Oct. 24, noon
Beginning first as architectural interventions built with common construction materials, the gallery space will be a laboratory that allows for a call and response style of mark-making and surface treatment. Over the course of several weeks LAVC students will have the opportunity to participate in a collective art process through contributing imagery, text, gestures and marks to the facades of these works. The artist will respond, by further manipulating and integrating those contributions.
Tension implies persistent adjustment, a provocation to engage. The rhythm of rebuffing avoids stasis, as previous acts elicit response. Over the duration of this exhibition, creative acts lose continuity as subsequent reactions conflate authorship, negating intent; tautline invites uncertainty through the public space of continuance, eschewing the apathy of comfort or knowable result.
