Art House On City Square AND TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS

Curated By John Lee Matney and Tyrus Lytton

The art in Temporal Distortions is brought together from world-class artists working in the contemporary south. They are leaders and innovators in their fields, each bringing a unique voice and methodology. The work has a synchronicity: searching for understanding through and of place. Much of the recent philosophical history dealing with the question of what place is and how we operate within or around it has taken hold of many centralizing ideas with its roots in Martin Heidegger. Even the latest metaphysical fashion of Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) deals with an inside versus outside placing. “OOO” is a metaphysical concern of whether things exist only within our perceptions or independently of them. As a culture of nomads able to travel great distances via automobile, bus, train, boat, or airplane, our sense of place is constantly changing in a manner that yesterday and tomorrow may not comprehend. Orson Welles and Alvin Toffler described this as a symptom of “Future Shock.” Curtis Mayfield wrote one of his best songs dealing with aspects of this. Once seen as a sickness, we now barely question it as a fact of life. Change has always come with unsettling maneuvers for some, and there are always seemingly new or different pressures accompanying it. The collection of works presented in this exhibition not only questions our interaction/being with place but also celebrates it. They celebrate it as someone who truly celebrates a lover by not discounting the dark desires from the light ones or a hairy nostril from a delicate earlobe.

Opening: August 28, 2013
Closing: November 8, 2013,

Stryker BUILDING and the Matney Gallery

Exhibiting Artists:

Scott Belville, Joshua Bienko, Dana Jo Cooley, Naomi Falk, Tom Francis, Jeremy Hughes, Sarah Irvin, Teddy Johnson, Martha Jones, Brian Kelley, Kent Knowles, Paul Light, Bartholomew Lynch, Tyrus Lytton, Hye Yeon Nam, Michael Oliveri, Shawn Preston , Kathryn Refi, Art Rosenbaum , Alison Shockley, Jeff Surace, John Stidham, Paul Thomas, Ernesto Torres, Jeffrey Whittle, Crisha Yantis