"…what I wanted wasn't physical presence but an imaginary space in which different tales collided." - Martha Rosler

The newsense exhibition, site unseen presents artworks that address location, time, and circumstance through subtlety, transparency, and the tacit manipulation of space and material. The artists have developed situational and/or site-specific works that operate below the surface to produce experience beyond visual consumption. Observation yields inference as site unseen submits both form and content with intimation and understatement, employing the inconspicuous and sometimes invisible use of presence.

Here, experience happens on the more subconscious levels of chance, pause, and discovery. These are works that avoid exaggeration and ego by applying transparency and veneer to the environment, in situ.

Where there are objects in the exhibition, a narrative pretext is surely the prop. Where scale is substantial look for the details. What is in place may be out of place, and vice versa. The artists have produced setting - they have established plot - they have given us a point of entry. Our job is to break the proscenium - to pass through the surface and get to the cerebral - to reach beyond passive observation to become be actively enveloped.

Gabe Bly
Kim Eggleston-Kraus
Peggy Kwong-Gordon
Jonathan Liss
Ayanah Moor
Todd Pavlisko