Dark Decor presents the work of 14 artists who share an interest in decorative and ornamental pattern. In the 26 stylistically diverse paintings, photographs, prints, installations, and mixed-media works in this exhibition the artists use pattern to present and organize visual images and material and to introduce aesthetic and extra-aesthetic issues. In these works pattern does not stand alone; it is a visual language, encoded by culture, which under scrutiny reveals sometimes dark, dangerous, or critical messages embedded within ornamentation. Collectively, and through their various investigations, critiques, and speculations, the artists call attention to social, cultural, and political concerns such as totalitarianism, war, AIDS, gender bias, cultural conditioning, race, feminism, urban decay, commodity culture, and the nature of aesthetic language.
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West Hartford, CT, USA
Cape Town, South Africa
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Skopje, Macedonia
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quito, Ecuador
Dublin, Ireland
Gothenburg, Sweden
Tirana, Albania
Tirana, Albania
Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Greenfield, MA, USA
New Orleans, LA, USA
Mobile, AL, USA
Conway, SC, USA
Taipei, Taiwan
Storrs, CT, USA
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Springfield, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Portland, ME, USA
Fitzroy, Australia
Wooster, OH, USA
London, England, UK
East Jerusalem
Berlin, Germany
Biel, Switzerland
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Raleigh, NC, USA
Greencastle, IN, USA
Calgary, Canada
Dakar, Senegal
Moscow, Russia
