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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alana Akacki 518-273-0552 x221 | alana@artscenteronline.org So to Speak Curated by Emily Berir Zimmerman January 25 March 29 Reception: Friday, January 25th, 5-9PM at Troy Night Out Lecture with Johannes Goebel: March 21, 7PM Free and open to the public. Monday Thursday: 11AM-7PM; Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 9AM- 5PM; Sunday: 12-4PM TROY, NY | January 7, 2013 Arts Center of the Capital Region presents So to Speak, an exhibition that creates an encounter between visual and verbal forms of representation. Each work in the exhibition weighs the difference between these two forms of expression, reflecting on the faults, slippages, and tensions that arise when representing images with words. Curated by Emily Berir Zimmerman, the exhibition opens January 25, 2013 and will be on view through March 29, 2013. Admission is free. So to Speak presents artworks by six artists Leona Christie, Paula Gaetano Adi, Hollis Frampton, Melinda McDaniel, Fernando Orellana, and Klub Zwei. The works question the status of the photographic image as a purveyor of truth, and the predominance of moving images within the current visual regime. It seeks to draw attention to the use of text in the exhibition itself wall labels, postcards, brochures, and other documentation to speak for objects, deeply altering their meaning. Leona Christies print series enumerate changes made between editions of Richard Scarrys Best Word Book Ever, obsessively clocking and describing minute differences recalled through her brothers austic savant memory. Paula Gaetano Adis ongoing performance piece pica, begins with the intimate gesture of the artist consuming a word from the English/Spanish dictionary, a performance she began upon moving to the United States. A video and the dictionary itself, now a sculptural object with its verbal elipses, stand as testaments to this ongoing performance. Hollis Framptons Poetic Justice (1972) is a 31-minute film, which Frampton referred to as a cinema of the mind, is narrated by a series of sheets of written text describing each scene. Melinda McDaniels Movie Lines series depicts the short, one-line descriptions of movies found in television programming menus to reflect absurd paraphrasing and present day attention spans. Fernando Orellana Whale Ride is a recipe for all of the items that would be necessary to create a conceptual amusement ride through the belly of a blue whale from the point of view of a Paramecium. The Plain Text series plays on the infinite monkey theorem, which states that given an infinite amount of monkeys, typewriters, and time, the monkeys will type out any particularly text you choose. Klub Zweis film Black and White: the other side of images presents a documentation from the Holocaust, taking into consideration the veracity of images that the viewer is never allowed see. On Thursday, March 21st at 7 pm, Johannes Goebel, Director of EMPAC at Rensselaer will lead a conversation about the function of words in relation to the experience of art. Images and exhibition checklist are available.

About The Arts Center: Located on Monument Square in the heart of downtown Troy, The Arts Center of the Capital Region houses studios for pottery, print-making, digital arts, culinary arts, jewelry, woodworking, painting and drawing, stained glass, dance, and more. Its 36,000 square feet of fully-accessible space also includes a 104-seat performing arts theater as well as four galleries noted for their critically acclaimed exhibits. Nationally and regionally renowned writers, performers, and artists proudly serve as The Arts Center's teaching faculty and curators. Gallery Hours: Monday Thursday: 11AM-7PM; Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday 9AM- 5PM; Sunday 12-4PM All exhibitions are free and open to the public. To learn more about The Arts Center of the Capital Region and its offerings go to www.artscenteronline.org. The exhibits program at The Arts Center of the Capital Region is sponsored by architecture +, EP&M, and New York State Council on the Arts.