In Practice: Material Deviance [electronic resource].

SculptureCenter 2017

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The artists included in Material Deviance use the quotidian, unassuming stuff of life and its circulation as a means of engaging larger social and infrastructural processes. They look to irregularities, gaps, residues, and altered states, whether found or enacted, as material traces of latent histories and underlying systems of power to expose the invisible forces of regulation, value, and control. While such systems inevitably shape the movement of bodies and things through the world—from the level of the individual to the social—the works on view reveal the cracks through which deviant modes of being and perceiving can emerge…
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Alexis Wilkinson
Lauren Bakst
Olivia Booth
Kim Brandt
Crystal Z Campbell
Danielle Dean
Ilana Harris-Babou
Jesse Harrod
Candice Lin
Yuri Masnyj
Virginia Lee Montgomery
Kate Newby
Barb Smith
Patrick Staff
Marian Tubbs
Jessica Vaughn
Claudia Brandenburg
Lucy Flint