FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please List
“UNCERTAINTY”
An Invitational Exhibit
November 18 - December 5, 2020
Reneé Borkow * Bamoozie * Ellen Burnett * Henry Coupe *May DeViney * Bernice Faegenburg *
David Fitzgerald * Alan Gaynor * Wally Gilbert *
Chris Tucker Haggerty * Maki Hajikano *Kazuo Ishikawa * Kat King * Marco Lando * Anna Lyle * John Nieman *
Bruce Rosen * Barbara K. Schwartz * Susan Sills * Angela Smith *Robert Smith * Bob Tomlinson *
Frances Vye Wilson * Toto Takamori *
Marie- Ange Hoda Ackad *Jenny Belin * Katia Bulbenko *Arlene Finger * Joshua Greenberg *
Barbara Hillerman Lieske * Shawn Marshall * Vernita Nemec * Nancy Nicol * Sarah Riley * Meredeth Turshen * Orin Buck * Daniel Boyer * Silvia Boyer * Irene Christensen * Susan Darley * Bart Dluhy * Hisayuki Doi *Shingo Hayamizu * Ed Herman * Halona Hilbertz * Mika Isohata * Yasmine Iskander * K-Junko *
Gabriele Juvan * Miwako Kashiwagi* Angela M. LaMonte * Nancy Macina * Cynthia Mailman *
Megumi Matsukawa *Lynne Mayocole * Hiromi Minami *
Sai Morikawa * Ichigo Nohara * Len Rosenfeld *Sheila Smith * Helaine Soller * Hill Spriggins * Yvonne Skaggs * Susana Sulic *
K-KO * Sakiko Toyama * Sam Wiener *
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present during these uncertain times, an invitational exhibit of artists exploring through their art the concept of Uncertainty, by its nature a difficult task. The exhibit will be both real & virtual and will open at the gallery premises November 18th and continue through December 5th, 2020.
Uncertainty by definition has to do with “a feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something.” But the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, in 1927 conceptualized “The Uncertainty Principle” as having to do with the limits of accuracy, “articulating the principle that the more precisely the position of a particle is known the less precisely is known its momentum and vice versa”.
Ben Eastham, editor-in-chief of art-agenda and a founding editor of The White Review. writes in “The Case for Embracing Uncertainty in Art” and “On the Value of Bewilderment”. Here is some of what he has to say about embracing uncertainty in art:
“Art today is less about the formal or aesthetic properties of an object than a way of talking about the intricately entangled, increasingly unstable world in which we live.”
“We should not be intimidated by uncertainty but embrace it.”
“Good art has always raised difficult questions, offended taste and challenged established categories.”
Eckhart Tolle who wrote “The Power of Now” states that “If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” Tolle regards worrying about the future or regretting the past as time lost, and that instead we must live every minute as it occurs. Contemporary art, the art being made at this moment, is more concerned with dealing with ideas rather than with methods, materials or styles. For artists, the making of art often serves as a substitute for worry.
For most of us living totally in the moment & not worrying is impossible. In this exhibit, the making of art has perhaps provided ways that these artists are able to deal with the fears that are currently being created in our world by all the uncertainty currently confronting us.
We hope that you the viewer will also derive some comfort from looking at and thinking about this art of “UNCERTAINTY” and that perhaps it will help you to deal with the uncertainty that we are always facing, but so much more during this time of the Covid virus, the growing concerns for our planet’s environment and racial injustice, to name just a few of the maladies of our times.
Vernita Nemec, 11/8/20
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday 12–6pm & by appointment/ masks required
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212-414-4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com