Explore Take Three of Ways of Seeing with Jarrett Earnest

Critic and curator Jarrett Earnest discusses his curatorial approach to the third iteration of our three-part exhibition Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Collection, which focuses on Shear’s extraordinary drawing collection.

For the third installation of 'Ways of Seeing', Earnest takes the fundamentals of drawing as his starting point, organizing his installation around two drawings: one by Henri Michaux and the other by Vija Celmins. Beginning with Michaux, we follow a path of drawings along the south wall, moving from openness to precision. Beginning with Celmins, we journey along the north wall from clarity and containment to the dissolution of the mark into the surface. In the rear gallery, color is the guiding principle. The result is a dynamic, fluid space that visualizes the idea that works of art are always impacted by the context in which they are seen and received.