perceptual

But perceptual experience has been a through-line in the region’s contemporary art history, so it’s good to see a festival exhibition focused on Southern California.

A small dot down in the lower right-hand corner visually transforms the austere composition into an essay on the perceptual dynamics of deep space, as if we — like that little dot — are floating untethered.

That radical change in perceptual empowerment speaks volumes about conflicting forces in the era’s cultural ethos.

“I am not an advocate of blocking your perceptual system, sight and sound for constant surveillance.”

In this back room’s corners, suspended panels further interrupt the perceptual action — at one moment creating what I swear was a passing lozenge-within-a-disc that looked like the CBS eyeball, a well-known corporate trademark, winking.