Ongoing Abstraction
The University of Vermont School of the Arts and
The Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visual Art present:
ongoing abstraction
An exhibition in the Colburn Gallery featuring works by:
Stacy Fisher
Andrew Kuo
Meg Lipke
Rachel Eulena Williams
Sun You
Curated by Steve Budington, associate professor of painting and drawing.
Exhibition dates: September 12–29, 2023
Public reception, 4:00–5:00pm in the gallery
Discussion with the artists 5:00pm Williams Hall Room 301
About the exhibition:
“I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, ‘I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say’; but now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.” Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Ongoing abstraction includes the work of five New York–based artists taking an expansive, ongoing approach to painting and abstraction. I say ongoing because their works bend and resist the pressure to conclude or offer the security of verification. Rather, their work lushly invites us in with their sense of humor, unrestrained logic, and unconventional, inventive uses of material to, qua Mary Ruefle, sense what we didn’t know we had been sensing. To embrace the ongoingness of things is to include not-knowing as one of the very tools for making sense of a daily life lived. Theirs is a tactile knowledge, a partially completed itinerary, a spilled logic, a gesture you can carry with you from place to place. —Steve Budington, August 2023, Vermont.
