Pattern Recognition

Aviary Gallery
Jamaica Plain, MA
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October 4  - October 28,  2012

Pattern Recognition is an exhibition curated by James Weinberg comprised of works that mingle strategies and forms borrowed from hard-edged geometric patterning and more expressly organic ways of suggesting and subverting order. The decidedly eclectic grouping of works and artists prefers not a single or privileged methodology but asks the viewer to consider a myriad of ways in which experience can be translated into visual media. The emphasis on pattern suggests the all too familiar impulse to see shapes in clouds and to search for stable meaning where there might be none; they exhibit symptoms of straightforward logic but unruly sediments of personal, fluid intuition slow their reading down. In a surprising way, the artworks and exhibition mirror life itself: a mix of patterns and repetition that are at times indecipherable and confusing but just as often elicit familiarity and comfort. Curated by James Weinberg.