X-RA*DI*ANCE Exhibition
Curated By Lita Tirak
Opening: February 10, 2013
Closing: April 20, 2013,
Exhibiting Artists:
Jeff Behary, Diane Covert, Thomas B. Kinraide, Nick Veasey
CURATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Originally discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, x-rays are invisible forms of radiation. We cannot taste, touch, see, smell, or hear them when they penetrate us—but after a few seconds, they produce an interior portrait of our bodies. The challenge for an exhibition of x-ray “art” is: how can we display emanations that are imperceptible to the human senses? When x-ray pictures reveal what we cannot see, the effect comes with a price. X-rays erase the exterior facades of things and the meanings held in the surfaces. Between the 1890s and the 1950s, the price was also paid with the lives of patients and technicians who suffered from radiation damage. Navigating through limitations, our artists creatively explore x-rays’ mediating effects. These images created by Thomas Burton Kinraide, Jeff Behary, Diane Covert, and Nick Veasey will highlight the technology of this mysterious radiance: X-RA*DI*ANCE. X-RA*DI*ANCE aims to make x-rays more visible to us by: uncovering the x-ray apparatus, considering the meaning of lost surfaces, and highlighting what inner worlds x-rays reveal. For each represented artist you will learn how they made their work and what their work explores. None of the artists in our exhibition subjected themselves, or other living persons, to radiation in order to make their work.
Lita Tirak, Curator of X-RA*DI*ANCE Doctoral Candidate in American Studies, College of William and Mary
Sponsored by Lee Matney and the Matney Family, The Knights Inn Busch Gardens Basecamp Productions The Hargrove Wealth Management Group/Wells Fargo Advisors Casa Forensics Abes Self-Storage Oller Studios Kickstarter and Special Thanks
