By SALINA POST
The Salina Art Center is hosting later this week an opening night reception for its summer exhibition: Point of View.
The reception is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Thursday in the Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe Avenue. Several artists are scheduled to be in attendance and offer brief comments beginning at 6 p.m.
Curated by Christine Olejniczak of Lawrence, Point of View features the works of four artists: Alicia Kelly of Lawrence; Becky Hyberger of Salina; Candace Hicks of Nacogdoches, Texas; and Mandy Bernard of Homer, Ark.
Point of View is scheduled for Wednesday through Sept. 3. Salina Art Center gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.
Point of View takes a cinematic look at dream fragments, crop circles, surveillance, and a world of light and shadows, according to information from the Salina Art Center.
About the exhibition, courtesy Salina Art Center
Point of View takes a cinematic look at dream fragments, crop circles, surveillance, and a world of light and shadows. Kelly presents an environment that welcomes visitors with a first-person experience, a reminder to call home, an invitation to pass through a patterned canopy of light - to feel small - to experience being out of scale with your surroundings. Wearable pieces, done in collaboration with Bernard, wrap the body inside the sculpture. The relationship with sculpture is personal.
In another gallery, Hicks suggests a story revealing that a fluffy, cumulus cloud is the main character of an inept plot of cover-up and violence. You are part of the surveillance team. You are outside of the action but an essential witness to the crime. Other narratives throughout the installation are scenes and objects based on information from unreliable sources that may or may not be true. Is that actual video of a crop circle being formed? It makes you wonder. Who is providing the information? How do you know what is true and what are the stories we tell ourselves?
Hyberger shares a perspective gained through years of journaling her dreams. She is showcasing a piece that imagines that pillows can be storage containers for dreams. The dream fragments are created in miniature, at architectural scale so that we can look down on them. A transformation has occurred, and we are giants in the room. We are large and the dreams are small, fragile, easy to examine. We can talk about it now. We’ve changed our point of view and that story seems like a long time ago.