FACADES
Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
The relationships between the outside of a building and its interior, and between someone's public face and the workings of his/her mind, are the subject of this gathering of recent art. Gender roles, racial stereotypes, architectural foils, and assumptions of all kinds come into play in this investigation.A series of perimeter zones-of-grey define the territory of each artist's work. Video works project in the darkest of these zones and wall-mounted works hang in the two lighter zones based on curatorial adjacencies. Three split-shift double walls form diagonal islands that organize the exhibition. The islands provide additional hanging space and one is programmed as
dispenser wall for the distribution of interpretive faculty texts - each text stack displayed in individual niches created between steel wall studs, exposed in a horizontal cut-away band. Author credits and quotes are overlaid on both finished wall surface and exposed interior wall cavity.
Curators: C2/Ginger Gregg Duggan & Judith Hoos Fox
