How time was place to wonder… features a selection of works on paper by twenty-two international artists from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey. The exhibition highlights the ever-evolving potential of contemporary drawing through a variety of techniques. Paper becomes a space for contemplation and experimentation, where freedom is given form, and ideas are developed and processed. There is a simplicity, immediacy, honesty, playfulness, and vulnerability.
From within a library that has fully embraced the future, replacing stacks of books and dusty pages with
the endless offerings of new forms of knowledge production and dissemination, the exhibition reminds
us that we have not yet relinquished the tactile and physical tangibility of paper as a material from which
to retrieve and relay information. Forced to reconcile our potential future loss of the tangible in our
technological age, here we are given a chance to enjoy the palpable surface of paper against the
ephemera of the digital image. Contrasting new sources of information consumption with an old source,
the exhibition extends notions of perspective beyond the realms of the physically-seen in unpredictable
ways, evoking place as both a physical site and as a condition of being. In the act of browsing, allow
the creative process at work to be visualized. Find yourself. Lose yourself. Take this as an opportunity
to slow down, connect to this moment, and embrace time as place to wonder…
(Mardee Goff, Curator)