Walker’s Point Center for the Arts
Exhibition: April 16- May 29, 2021 | Event Hours: Friday 6-8pm
839 S 5th Street | 414.672.2787
Is/Isn’t
Event Description (Limit 100 words): Dichotomies are central to the politics of attention. Contemporary American culture frames existence through oppositions, through “either/ors.”
Concepts such as male/female, black/white, gay/straight accentuate difference and perpetuate otherness. Artists Zina Mussmann and Kate E. Schaffer redirect and focus on gray areas in order to expose the artificial, constructed theater of reality.
Is/Isn’t is a collaborative exhibition that explores perception and materiality by questioning what painting is/isn’t. Through abstraction, mark-making, construction, and deconstruction, Mussmann and Schaffer manipulate materials to simultaneously create illusion and interrogate surface.
Using traditional and alternative processes, Mussmann and Schaffer examine the language of painting; what it is, what it isn’t and what we often overlook it to be.