represented practices was a challenge, encouraging a contemplation of purpose over specific technique, material, or aesthetic. The artists selected for Out Reach exhibit a balance of exteriority with interiority, a focus on what’s beyond the object or picture plane as much as what it contains. 

Edges are borders to rub up to and surpass here. Fringed or frayed lines, amorphous angularity, and pictorial porousness are all hallmarks of the artists included here. Forms or things are stacked, piled, or gathered into being while images stretch across, through, and beyond their frames. Through this outwardness, a sense of possibility unfolds as each work presented here postures a nascent, inarticulable sensation of reimagination. Repetition and assemblage, coupled with doubling, mirroring, or simulation, are all techniques as well as vehicles to explore how echos of experience formulate into our identities and psyches alike. Our selves are not only a confluence of encounters but are fashioned in part with how we relate to not only other people but the world around us. Our context shapes who we are, and our relationships can be the connective tissue between ourselves and the world, helping us to process and better understand each. The works in Out Reach illustrate that going beyond our edges yields a myriad of new opportunities and sensibilities with which to engage the world.