Point of View
May 24 - September 3, 2023
Featured Artists: Alicia Kelly, Becky Hyberger, Candace Hicks, Mandy Bernard
Curated by: Christine Olejniczak
Point of View takes a cinematic look at dream fragments, crop circles, surveillance and a world of light and shadows. Alicia Kelly presents an environment that welcomes visitors with a first person experience, a reminder to call home, an invitation to pass through a patterned canopy of light - to feel small - to experience being out of scale with your surroundings. Wearable pieces, done in collaboration with Mandy Bernard, wrap the body inside the sculpture. The pieces are complete when they are on a body in the light. The relationship with sculpture is personal. In another room in the gallery Candace Hicks suggests a story revealing that a fluffy, cumulus cloud is the main character of an inept plot of cover-up, and violence and you are part of the surveillance team. You are outside of the action but an essential witness to the crime. Other narratives throughout the installation are scenes and objects based on information from unreliable sources that may or may not be true. Is that actual video of a crop circle being formed? It makes you wonder. Who is providing the information? How do you know what is true and what are the stories we tell ourselves? Becky Hyberger shares a perspective gained through years of journaling her dreams. She is showcasing a piece that imagines that pillows can be storage containers for dreams. The dream fragments are created in miniature, at architectural scale so that we can look down on them. A transformation has occurred and we are giants in the room. We are large and the dreams are small, fragile, easy to examine. We can talk about it now. We’ve changed our point of view and that story seems like a long time ago.
Candace Hicks
Becky Hyberger
Alicia Kelly
Mandy Bernard
Christine Olejniczak
July 15 | Writing with Art: Patterns in Poetry
10-11:30 AM, Gallery
Writing with Art: Patterns in Poetry with Lori Brack
Adult Workshop | $45
July 19 | Art Byte
12:15-12:45 PM at Salina Art Center with Darren Morawitz
FREE
August 12 | Writing with Art: Tiny Poems
10-11:30 AM at Salina Art Center with Lori Brack
Workshop for middle & high school students and adults | $45
August 16 | Art Byte
12:15-12:45 PM at Salina Art Center with Darren Morawitz
FREE
PROGRAMMING:
May 25 | Opening Reception
5-7 PM at Salina Art Center FREE
June 17 | Writing with Art: Dreaming Yourself
10-11:30 AM at Salina Art Center with Lori Brack
Workshop for middle & high school students and adults | $45
June 21 | Art Byte
12:15-12:45 PM at Salina Art Center with Darren Morawitz
FREE
June 24 | The Saturday Morning Art Critic
10 AM - Noon at Salina Art Center
with Emily Christensen and Lori Brack Workshop | $75
Photos courtesy of the artists, Hannah Crickman, Joshua Veldstra, Ann Dean, and Megan Karson