Perspicuous

You are warmly invited to:

Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image

September 17-28 East Hall Gallery

Opening Reception and Artists’ Talk: Monday, September 17th 6-8:30

Closing Reception and Student Presentations: Thursday, September 27th 5-8 pm

Sponsored by the Pratt Academic Senate and the Program in Critical and Visual Studies

“Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image,” an interdisciplinary exhibition of work by current Pratt students and recent Pratt alumni, will open with an artists’ talk and reception in the East Hall Gallery on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus on Monday, September 17, from 6:00-8:30 PM. Curated by Kimberly Lamm, Assistant Professor of English and the Program in Critical and Visual Studies, and designed by Charlotte Noruzi, Adjunct Professor in Communications Design, the exhibition is sponsored by the Academic Initiatives Committee of the Pratt Academic Senate and the Program in Critical and Visual Studies.

The exhibition emerged from a series of conversations Michael Eng organized and led as the Academic Initiatives Committee Chair during the 2006-2007 academic year. Based on the idea of a “perspicuous representation” by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Professor Eng invited Pratt faculty members, staff, and students to articulate what concepts such as “communication,” “space,” “critical thinking,” and “image” mean, specifically, in their various fields and disciplines. The exhibition “Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image” is a conversation with and between Pratt students and their work, and focuses on two of the concepts the AIC discussed the last academic year: “space” and “image.” The idea informing the exhibition is that artwork not only represents space and image, but actually produces new and singular ways in which these concepts can be thought and imagined. In an earlier AIC discussion on “image” from this past spring semester, Professor Eng described this practice as “keeping the future of the concept open.”

The exhibition runs until Friday, September 28. On Thursday, September 27 from 5-8 pm, there will be a closing reception that will feature presentations by students from the Program in Critical and Visual Studies and Pratt’s Creative Writing Program. The exhibition and all events associated with it are free and open to the public. A catalog, designed by Charlotte Noruzi, will be available to exhibition visitors.

Download the exhibition poster here. (Opens pdf file)