Stuff Like Air

Stuff Like Air, an exhibition of work by Joseph Coniff, debuts concurrently with the grand opening on October 9, and will be on view through December 5, 2015. The exhibition includes de- and re- constructed, tailored fabric works, as well as smaller works on paper. The tailored fabric works explore Coniff's reaction to the assumed dichotomies within a binary worldview, focusing on the perceptual possibilities inherent in relationships such as the figure and the ground. Coniff challenges the polarities of these relationships and looks with equanimity on what we might consider the foreground and the background, and the "empty" space between. Through these works, Coniff views the broken pattern as a line at which we can awake from malaise and gain a greater understanding of being.