"Our Heads" Curated by Brian Cirmo

"It is not the artist’s hand that makes the image of a head, rather it’s the artist’s head that makes the image of a head. It is all conceived, wrestled with, obsessed over, and created in the recesses of the head’s brain; the hand merely does what the brain in the artist’s head tells it to do. A Head is a vessel for every thought that has ever been thought. The head is our mother board. It possesses the whole of the human experience, all of the senses; the eyes, nose, mouth and ears are attached to the head and wired through the skull and into the brain. The head is our identity, our awareness, and our ability to move and feel our way through the world.

This exhibition of drawings, titled Our Heads, brings together twelve regional artists whose artwork builds an iconography of the human head by exploring the head’s formal symmetry, idiosyncrasies, and mysteries, and reveals how the artist’s brain builds systems of marks, colors, forms, and lines. Many drawings in the exhibition deal with the rendering of the head’s flesh in all of its textures and expressions, while also examining human attraction to facial features. The work comments on our devotion and obsession with the head in historical and contemporary culture and simultaneously gives us a glimpse into the intimate and private thoughts of the artists."

Artist include Robert R. Shane, Ph.D., Han Dogan, Anthony Camarota, Brian Cirmo, Andrea Hersh, Daniel Schroeder, Thom Piejko, Darcie Abbatiello, Ryan Parr, John Hampshire, Harold Lohner, Michael Van Winkle