Through a tableau of the creative process and a room full of objects they explore how one is responsible for creating their own world. Samantha Simpson offers playful and colorful images while addressing identity construction and stylistic devices used in our mass culture. Simpson is interested in reclaiming the visual vocabulary that art education alienates working outside the boundaries that separate the art world from the rest of society. The primary focus of Starbucks series lies in an investigation of Freuds theory of trauma via text from a childs instructional book. The focus of the work is on the relationship between the language and the reality of the image.
Admission is free.
Local Salad lineup includes Flash to Bang Time, Andy Browne, and Crybaby . Showcase organizer Lee Smith even participated in the first Biennial exhibition in the 1984 when The Contemporary was still Nexus Contemporary Art Center. The final Local Salad date, May 25ths roster boasts Greta Lee, The Dot Commies, Train Black and The Eskimos. Lee Smith is a contributing writer for Creative Loafing, Horizon, Weekly Planet, Jam, Music Manic and Flagpole . He was Contributing Editor of Southeast Performer magazine from June '99 until November 2000 and has covered national and local music, entertainment and art professionally since 1981 as a staff and freelance writer, photographer, and graphic artist for publications across the country.