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Ryan + Trevor Oakes:
The Periphery of Perception

Identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes engage in probing studies of visual perception and light through material investigations, discovering methods that constitute key advancements in the representation of visual reality. This winter they will be in residence, creating a commissioned drawing of our Concert Hall. This drawing will mark the first time the Oakes brothers re-envision the structure of their drawings to trace the perimeter of binocular vision. This new work will be shown as part of The Periphery of Perception — an exhibition looking at the development of the Oakes’ work over the past 10 years.

Art is the playground of the physical world. Light is the medium of all visual art. Any piece of visual material—art, nature, literature—that might spark awe in the mind will come through the gates of the eyes. —The Oakes Twins

Curator: Emily Berçir Zimmerman

Panel Discussion

A conversation on optics, the nature of light, and the rendering of visual reality with writer Damien James, photographer Michael Benson, and artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes.

Bio:

The work of brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes is held in the permanent collections of The Field Museum and the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and the New York Public Library. Their public art projects include a large-scale outdoor sculpture that debuted in Chicago's Millennium Park in the summer of 2009, and is now installed at O'Hare International Airport. They have exhibited and lectured about their artwork across the US and abroad, most recently working with the Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence, Italy, during the summer of 2011, and exhibiting at CUE Art Foundation in New York City.

In the fall of 2011, they will do a drawing project at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and in the winter of 2012, they will be in residence creating an installation at EMPAC. In the fall of 2012, they'll return to Florence to re-envision an artwork of Brunelleschi, creator of the first perspective experiment on the books, demonstrated around 1425.