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

SEPTEMBER 25—DECEMBER 29, 2023 | WEST GALLERY

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.

bARBER | Smile, porque nos paso

SEPTEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 29, 2024 | SOUTH GALLERY

To see yourself apart you have to look at it all. 

“Beneath every surface lies an identity. The amount of depth beneath the surface determines the value of its being.” - Jack Whitten, Notes from the Woodshed

Today, more so than ever, anatomical warfare is at the doorstep of every American. In 2004, bARBER codified human figures into geometric shapes and lines, affording the body of the figurine fluidity of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality between each viewer.

James Kinser & Niki Grangruth | Muse

SEPTEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 29, 2024 | EAST GALLERY

Muse explores non-conforming gender identity, beauty, and the gaze through the reinterpretation of well-known paintings from art history. The series documents a process of gender play—a conscious hybridization of hyperfeminine and masculine as a way of exploring the fluid, performative, and sometimes dichotomous elements of identity.