The Sensuous Line
June 23, 2021 - August 6, 2022
Summer Wind, Eugene Koch
About The Show
The End of the Line Judith Daniels
Line is a point moving on a surface or in the air. It is the simplest mode of visual communication we have. Images, words, maps, plans…all use line to tell us something.
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another,” said Edouard Manet. We humans create the line between those areas of color in our brains, as a way of discerning shape. If the lines remained, we could do without the colors, though we would be much poorer for the loss. We sense the lines that are not there.
Artists, of course, use line all the time to register what they see in sketches, to plan what they are creating in layouts, to simplify a form or to create mass and tone in drawing. Some use dry mediums, some wet mediums. Some use linear materials as the substance of their work. So long as the mark or element is longer than it is wide, we see it as a line.
In The Sensuous Line, you will see line as thread, support, mark, stitch, object, information, cut, gesture, structure and plain old drawing. Something so simple communicates much when wielded by these ten artists. It is hoped that after encountering this work you will see line in the world in a new way, in unexpected places as well as everyday contexts.
- Lissa Hunter, Curator
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