“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art.” said mixed media artist David Hammons, and when asked, then why do you make it?

His response was “...Because art is about symbols and outrageously magical things happen when you mess around with a symbol.”

The line-up of artists in Messin’ with You play to the spirit of Hammons, where the origins of their work arise from found and unexpected non-art materials or a deviation of unorthodox preconceptions of it being art in the first place.  The work in this exhibition features mathematical objects and operations including impossible realities,  explorations of infinity, tesselations, optic trickery and other conceptual shenanigans. 

The artists in this exhibition prefer the scientist-meets-tinkerer aesthetic with a side order of folly, mind-bending and risk-taking as part of their practice.  All of these artists test things out in a combination of playfulness, irreverence, and gutsiness simultaneously employing a wit and curiosity that asks WHAT IF?  

We are thrilled to celebrate the work of Dana Depew, Michelle Droll,  Scott Goss,  Natalie Lanese, Shannon Morris, Steve & Debbie Presser, Ed Raffel, Stephen Tornero, Anderson Turner, Gregory Scott, Gwen Waight, and Tony Williams