What Images
What happens when images fail to hold meaning?
What is left and what are we looking at?
Are images helping us see?
Are images just for looking at?
How can I view these images, and who is allowing me to see?
See what?
What happens after you see?
What do I want from an image?
Why am I making an image?
The works in this exhibition are artists' personal responses to their own crisis with images or their image making process. The value in reaching a breaking point is that it can generate new ways of making sense. Think beyond the crisis rather than restore the function of a system in failure.
The artists in this exhibition reflect on various conundrums including the shame-inducing expectations of commercial images, the value preserved in the Hollywood image with its sneaky intimacy, the development of a climate controlled viewing experience for cinematic images, adventures into the history of painted images within contemporary modes of viewing, narrative human bodies presenting reality, disassociation from the natural world, image obsession and fatigue, and dispersion of control in order to make room for chance, confusion, and wonder.
The College of New Jersey Art Gallery Mar 2026
Curated by Kaitlyn Paston and Lindsey Arturo
Works by Adi Blaustein Rejto, Arghavan Heydareseslam, Chrystine Rayburn & Patrick Glennon, Lindsey Arturo, Layan Attari, Helen Wilson, Sidian Liu, Amanda Teixeira, Kaitlyn Paston
Movies Movies Movies
2025
Video exhibition, transforming the site of a former taxidermists’ workshop into a disintegrating multiplex cinema. Richmond Virginia
Co-curated by Kaitlyn Paston and Lindsey Arturo