Artists
Angela Basker
Anitah Diggs
The Lady Egg
Bre Kohlmeyer
Remi Koebel
Location: Modified Arts 407 E Roosevelt St. Phoenix, AZ, 85004
June 17 - July 9, 2022
Curation by Melissa Koury and Katherine Del Rosario
Modified Arts presents Daydreaming, a group exhibition of artists capturing self, free from the restraints of consciousness. Artists Angela Masker, Anitah Diggs, The Lady Egg, Bre Kohlmeyer and Remi Koebel dive into the surreal through personal and universal narratives, symbolic data collection and release, and through connections and juxtapositions that stimulate understanding of the subconscious.
What is the role of the subconscious?
The subconscious is the information that exists in the mind and influences our everyday actions and feelings however, it is not immediately accessible to the aware mind. Surrealism itself is rooted in the process of bringing to light the subconscious by following the mind’s stream of thought and depicting imagery as unconventionally as it presents itself.
Naturally, the process brings the artist introspective where events, emotions, memory, and strong imagery come to mind. The amalgamation of this presents itself as compositions that are dreamlike, uncanny and fantastical. Within the imagery is a diary of information that the artist can disseminate to bring understanding of the innermost self. Even in the most cathartic presentations can liberation of the mind be found. As perceptions of self are fractured, anxieties are addressed and epiphanies are experienced, new understandings of self are formed that manifest as newly conscious realities.
If reality is made through our minds’ perception, can the subconscious be more communicative to understanding self than reality?
How does the imagery of an artist connect to the subconscious of a viewer?
-Written by Melissa Koury
Post Exhibition Curatorial Notes
