Feedback, 2021

Identity, Banner Signage and Exhibition Publication
4-color digitally printed vinyl and paper
Commissioned by the Jack Shainman Gallery for Feedback, organized by Helen Molesworth

Feedback is filled with art works by artists who organizer, Helen Molesworth follows. In other words, artists she “likes” and who she has gathered together to form an assembly, a class, a chorus. Some of the artists are interested in the twisted history of America. Others are interested in the persistence of quotidian pleasures as best exemplified by still life or contemporary tableaux of everyday life. Some artists have combined their sense of America’s untold narratives with the gentle ebb and flow of daily life. Some are sharing their daydreams, others their nightmares. Everywhere there is attention to craft, the handmade, the body. Each artist plays with the building blocks of visual art: color, light, shape, texture, material, improvisation, form. Together, the works on view offer a microcosm, a snapshot in time, of the feedback loop that is culture—people make things that help us learn things, that allow us to think things, that help us to ask questions, that propel us to make things. Feedback plays with what happens when the eternal return of the same is also the eternal return of difference. (Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light…) Feedback toggles back and forth between the past, present, and the future (working to keep the cynicism at bay), by stoking the small and tender fires of each artist’s experience of the feedback loop called America.—Helen Molesworth, curator

Artists: Sanford Biggers, Diedrick Brackens, John Buck, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Karon Davis, Taylor Davis, Roy Dowell, Muna El Fituri, Kohshin Finley, Christina Forrer, Lauren Halsey, Ej Hill, Steve Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Tyler Mitchell, Hilary Pecis, Dana Sherwood, Rose B. Simpson, Cauleen Smith, Becky Suss, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye