Varieties of Denial
Katie Kahn & Terri Kapsalis

GALLERY II

May 2 – 26, 2013

Organized by Francie Shaw

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present Varieties of Denial, an exhibition of new work by artist Katie Kahn and writer Terri Kapsalis. Varieties of Denial pairs Kahn's drawings on New York Times', "Science Times," cover pages with serigraph prints of Kapsalis' texts, which were made using the same "Science Times" pages as source material for her short fictions. This is not a collaboration in the traditional sense of agreements, negotiations, or consensus in the creation of a single, joint work. Rather, Kahn and Kapsalis worked independently and agreed not to share work until each piece was finished. Enlisting pens, gouache, correction fluid and tape, Kahn used simple materials and techniques – sorting, connecting, noticing, divining, revealing, improvising. Kapsalis transformed the page into a lexicon - circling, reordering, cutting up, recognizing, adding, repurposing. After the work was done, Kahn and Kapsalis would bring text and drawing together to witness the collaboration emerge. Perhaps, in this sense, this project is more of a corroboration.

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