Rosefsky Gallery at Binghamton University
January 25 - February 22, 2024
ASSESSMENT (or antidotal portraits for historical abuse) offers an allegorical accounting of the acquisition and inheritance, plunder and punishment that characterizes American history. Its scenes are charged, and charge more. Episodic entries of violent possession, pervasive oppression, and persistent discrimination fill a visual ledger of an inequitable economy. Depictions both earnest and ironic alternate to create a double accounting. The tally keeps changing with narratives of uneasy purchase. There is no sum total; the balance may never be reconciled.
Image: Detail from DIrigible, 2024, Ink, gouache and conte crayon on paper, 50 x 116 inches
