Tell Me What You Think of Me, Part One: Something to Divine | Ann Resnick

SEPTEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 29, 2024

Ann Resnick’s exhibition in Fall 2024, guest curated for the SAC by Ksenya Gurshtein, presents a new group of works collectively titled Something to Divine. These works are the first part of a larger project in progress titled Tell Me What You Think of Me, which will be on view in its entirety at the SAC in 2026.

In Something to Divine, Resnick has re-used years’ worth of her hand-drawn stencils to create large-scale spray painted images conducive to the practice of scrying, which is used in divination and fortune-telling. Devoid of any intentional representation, the works are rife with shapes and shadows that can be interpreted as an almost infinite number of images. Engaging with these works highlights our fundamental human tendency to look for meaning everywhere and anywhere. For Resnick,  becoming more aware of this tendency is a reminder of how individual perception can vary widely and how much subjective interpretation affects the ways we approach all facts.  At the same time,  the artist is also interested in the way that engaging with her works might reveal some surprising commonalities in how we perceive things. The ultimate hope is for this exhibition to encourage both introspection and dialogue among its visitors. The Fall 2024 installation will also be used by the artist and her team as an opportunity to gather participant data for the larger future exhibition.

About the Artist
Ann Resnick was born in 1954 in Syracuse, NY. Over the course of her career, she has been an artist, gallery owner, and cultural instigator and experimenter. She studied at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, the Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art, and the University of North Carolina. Trained as a printmaker, Resnick has engaged with a broad range of materials and processes, including wood burning and digital signal processing. She married artist and creative partner Kevin Mullins in 1982; together, they lived and worked in New York, New Mexico, Alaska, North Carolina, and in Kansas since 1995. Resnick has a 30-year record of exhibitions stretching from Maine to New Mexico and from Japan to Brazil. Her work has been the subject of more than 50 reviews and is in the public collections of the Ulrich Museum of Art, The Art of Emprise, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the William Benton Corporation. She is represented by Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita.

About the Curator
Ksenya Gurshtein is a curator, art historian, writer, and translator living in Wichita, Kansas. She has worked at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among other institutions. In 2023, she received the Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. She has produced exhibitions and published widely on a range of topics in modern and contemporary art. Her work strives to foreground lesser-known histories, look to places historically peripheral to the Western canon, and support the work of arts institutions and artists as agents of social change. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan and has received support for her work from the NEH, Getty Research Institute, and Mellon Foundation.