Jazz Gallery

THE

926 E Center Street
Soft opening March 6th 6-9pm
Hard Opening March 10th 5-8pm.


Join us for "THE" an exhibition curated by Ashley Janke at the Jazz Gallery, featuring an arrangement of 11 local, national and international artists. THE explores visual interpretations of the word detached from symbolic reference. THE functions as a structure, framed by the context of words around it; aiding support to its subject. How can THE function removed from its framework?

Featured Artists:

Alec Regan
Allison Heape
Gitte Bog
Holly Coulis
Josh Reames
Khine Hline
Michelle Grabner
Peter Barrickman
Richard Galling
Stevie Kinast
Stephen Strupp


A statement from Janke:
"Gertrude Stein was a prominent novelist, poet, and art collector, however, she began her career as a psychologist. Her interest in the process of objectifying words derived from an experiment she started in her twenties where she filled pages with whatever words that popped into her head, in an attempt to discover her subconscious. She realized this was not working but discovered an inherent structure in language. From this experiment, she began trying to separate words from their symbols through reputation and prose (ex. a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose). Through this research, I was reminded of a process I went through, when I was young, for dyslexia. I had trouble with my eyes jumping around the page and fallowing the linear progression of words. They said that many visual people have problems with this because of words, such as 'the', that do not have visual symbolic reference. They had me draw, paint, and sculpt my interpretations of 'the' to help bridge the gaps and create a visual association. I am intreats in how other critical visual people can use the minimal qualities of "the" to create something that exists on its own outside of its usual context."