Imbedded — Curator’s Statement

With this exhibition, Salon Ciel sent a challenge to circles of emerging artists around town: reinvent your landscape by depicting and prying loose its static elements. The extraction itself activates; the re-presenting of fixed ideas changes their meaning, or at least, reminds us that they are here. with us. still.

The visual experience of Imbedded brings together eight artists’ analyses of a mental, physical, or metaphysical landscape. The artists approach their spaces differently - some works comment on a state-of-affairs through sequestering it or fictionalize a moment to make its assumptions more noticeable. Others reflect a reality to remind us it exists, to show its absurdity, or to complicate our expectations.

By fixating on a taken-for-granted moment, concept, or state of being, each artist challenges our own practices and perceptions, daring

us each to expose the imbedded, cut it loose, set it free.

-Lyndsey Beutin, David Rheingold, AM Stromberg