To Be the Void: Sublimity and Contemporaneity, 2016
International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
Curator: Jeff Edmonds, Coordinator: Kristi Arnold

This exhibition explores “the sublime” as a critical perspective by which the relationship between contemporaneity, presentation, and representation can be critically explored. The sublime is an experience of the present, as presence, and the mind’s effort to encapsulate, to represent, the “now”, the grand, the terrifying, the immeasurable, and so forth, as concrete experience. These notions of uncertainty and instability will serve as an impetus for representation, be it positive or negative, that the artists in this exhibition will explore. Understanding the sublime experience is unattainable. But, together, it is hoped that we will represent a small window into the “now” of contemporaneity.

Kristi Arnold                         Beth Kleene                 Shawn Williams 
Katie Baldwin                       Mari LaCure
Phillip Bunin                          KC Crow Maddux
James O. Clark                     Yoonmi Nam
Eric Leif Conrad                   John O'Donnell
Jen Dierdorf                          Dana Peters
Ted Efremoff                        Anthony Pinata
Kristina Estell                        Clinton Ricketts
Milt Friedly                            Laurie Sloan
Brad Guarino                         Robert Troxell