BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
SOME BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS, Clockwise from center: David Gibson, Mary Ann Strandell, Ruth Waldman, Drew Shiflett, Tara Giannini, Mark Power, Karen Marston, Leemour Pelli, and Conrad Vogel Elizabeth Huey: The Cyclothmic Forest , 2005, Courtesy Feigen Contemporary, New York Catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition "Beautiful Dreamer" at SPACES, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, Ohio, September 9 to October 23, 2005 The purpose of Beautiful Dreamer is to discover the inherent truths contained in art work that explores the fantastic, the ambiguous, the obscure, and the fanciful in order to gain perspective on agendas of contemporary art production and the contingencies of meaning which they share. This exhibition explores the context of romanticism in the situation of contemporary art, its roots in certain historical tendencies, its cultivation of a genre of inspiration, and the resulting variety of forms which emerge from it. A nearly paradigmatic sensibility serves not only as ...