Resonance

Resonance is a group exhibition curated by Xiaoze Xie, featuring works by Terry Berlier, Paul DeMarinis, Guillermo Galindo, and Hu Xiangcheng, whose work explores the transformative relationship between vision and sound and blurs the boundaries between visual art and experimental music. The exhibition comprises a provocative array of works spanning multi-media installation, sculpture, works on paper, video, and hybrid print, engaging a variety of themes, strategies, and approaches. In these innovative works, sound is an important element either directly as a medium and material, or transformed and embodied in the visual forms. Though each artist embodies a distinct aesthetic and approach, when brought together, their works produce new harmonies and dissonances that build on one another. The exhibition title borrows a term from music to describe both the prominence of audio in the show as well as the evocative emotional echo that the art creates. Resonance additionally alludes to how the works reflect questions about today’s most pressing social and environmental concerns. Viewed together in this exhibition, the provocative works offer an opportunity for viewers to expand their sensory experience of art and their understanding of how contemporary art resonates with cultural, social, and environmental issues of our time.

Adapted from Xiaoze Xie's Curator's Essay, published on May 17, 2021.