Artists often translate their respective ideas and experiences into objects or events. The images and insights they provide for us as audience members sometimes allow a sudden, often unexpected, intuitive understanding of experiential phenomena. This peculiar immediacy of understanding may transcend our ability to fully articulate into words what we become aware of, may experience, or occasionally may grasp quite spontaneously; whether intellectually, spiritually, or emotionally.
The instantaneous, unexpected insights provided by an artist’s works, functioning as conversational implicatures, form the art of the “epiphany”; that is, the translation of ideas, using diverse aesthetic foci, into powerful, ineffable communicative devices, providing unanticipated insights into our shared reality. This concept of the sudden translation of ideas through images is explored in the collection of objects that form the exhibition, EPIPHANIES: Art, Image, & Insight, and its theme of the complexity of human awareness is discussed in a series of programs and colloquia supporting the exhibition. Exhibition curated by Jonell Logan and Dr. Frank Martin.
