On Wednesday, March 18 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., join us for an artist panel discussion featuring exhibiting artists Annie Claflin, Beliz Iristay, Bridget Rountree, David Fobes, Elijah Rubottom, Helena Westra, Jaya Darriet, Joe Riley, and Meghan Augustine.
The panel invites audiences to engage in conversation about material practice and process, and how medium shapes meaning in contemporary art.
Curatorial Statement:
The Medium Is the Message explores how meaning in visual art is created through content and medium. Inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (1967), the exhibition centers visual art as a space where medium and content are manipulated by artists to undermine expectations.
Across the exhibition, artists work with clay, adobe, encaustic, pigment, industrial materials, and organic matter to demonstrate how material itself communicates. Weight, fragility, erosion, accumulation, and touch become carriers of meaning alongside imagery and form.
Some works align medium and content to reinforce a clear message, while others introduce tension between the two, allowing material to complicate or challenge what is depicted. Together, these works invite viewers to look beyond what a piece is “about” and consider how artistic choices shape interpretation.
By foregrounding material and process, The Medium Is the Message offers insight into how artists think and how meaning is made.
Presented by: Space 4 Art in partnership with Art Produce
Supported by: The Prebys Foundation Arts Ecosystem Grant