Suffolk University Gallery

Coming Soon!

Perception Part 1
Perceived: Look Closely. Observe. Look Again.

September 10 – October 17, 2024

Opening reception and gallery talk:
Ways of Seeing with the participating artists
Thursday September 12, 5:00 pm followed by a reception at 5:30pm

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass. Leonardo DaVinci

One of the roles of artists and scientists is to observe and describe the world.
What are the limits of our ability to see? How do we change that?
What do we learn by being deeply engaged, by looking as if for the first time?
And looking again, and again.

The artists in this exhibition are engaged with making an artwork as it progresses, observing/looking in real time, over time. The artwork itself makes these demands of the maker: How do we see? How do we not see? How do we remember what we see? This process of inquiry for both scientists and artists attempt to answer these questions as part of their respective practice.

Participating Artists:

Meg Alexander
Amy Sudarsky
Stephen Mishol

Image credit: Meg Alexander, Hill/Hole (Trapezoid Hole #2), India ink on Nepal paper, 7 x 10 inches, 2017