BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: William Dunlap: Look at It -- Think About It

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: William Dunlap: Look at It -- Think About It:

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Description of Pictures: William Dunlap: Look at It -- Think About It
April 2 through May 29, 2016
"Narrative is tricky business. Yet the telling of universal stories through art can bind us together and bring new, enhanced areas of self-understanding. William Dunlap’s assemblages of elements taken from his life, our lives, and the world around us reflect his sensuous and infectiously energetic view of life."
-- Jack Cowart, Deputy Director/Chief Curator, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Look at It — Think About It is a survey exhibition of select works, dating from the 1970s to the present. Paintings, constructions, and works on paper, found and fashioned objects all reflect the artists interest in the narrative tradition in the visual arts and modernisms concerns with remote association and conceptualism.
Dunlap invites the viewers to willingly suspend their disbelief. In the appropriately titled exhibition, the artist seeks to present a simple lesson about his work and art in general—to look at it and think about it. Dunlap emphasizes the contemplative, meditative effect of standing before an object, letting it affect its viewer as it may.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATDUN_160401_008.JPG: Survey exhibition of work from 1971 to 2016 Look At It -- Think About It asks, pleads, begs the viewer to willingly suspend disbelief and make the sort of free associations with objective, hypothetically real images as are readily made with non-objective, color field abstraction. It is a tall order, for narrative is tricky business -- but just the sort of business art should be up to. With works ranging over four decades, this exhibition nonetheless contains themes that are constants: light, landscape, history, allegory, and the natural world where animals stand in for an often missing human presence. Objects, both found and fashioned enjoy equal importance. No one thing is more important than another. Numbers, letters, Euclidean line, and a concern for language are present, as is the term 'Brand Loyalty' and what is has meant over time. "So please," Dunlap implores; "look at it and think about it and read Short Mean Fiction -- Words and Pictures, it will increase the confusion."
2. KATDUN_160401_083.JPG: William Dunlap Heads and Hands of the Writer EGV, 2001-2016
3. KATDUN_160401_094.JPG: William Dunlap If Donald Judd Had Been a Painter, 2016
4. KATDUN_160401_111.JPG: William Dunlap Razor Sharp Totem, 2001
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