See
Curated by: Sanford Mirling
& Yaminay Chaudhri

February 2011
Reception Friday, February 25, 2011, 5-8

Participating Artists:
Janae McHugh, Jack Magai, Jim de Sève, and Julie Casper Roth

All artistic media is measured by human interpretation, the means by which one engages imagery is predicated on one's personal, temporal, and experiential history.

See has brought together the work of Jane McHugh, Jack Maga, Jim de Sève, and Julie Casper Roth to probe the perceptions of how imagery is interpreted.

See generates a unique relationship between the viewer and the work itself; each simultaneously becomes subject and object. When looking upon this work, one is equally looked upon; both from the vantage of the subject portrayed in the work, as in Jack by Magai and de Sève, but also from within one's own conscious mind. While some works powerfully demand that the viewer step back to focus, others gently invite an intimate listen. To engage the works selected in See is to engage the personal psyche.

See creates a definitive plurality for reflection, and a fluctuating space for engagement. Honest, confrontational, sexual, critical, revealing, See requires one to look as much it the sell as it does it's imagery. A deceptively austere aesthetic propagates a powerful complex of intellectual underpinnings.