Circle Contemporary | Arts of Life
Opening reception Friday, March 13 from 5:00–8:00pm
EXPO CHICAGO walkthrough Saturday, April 11 5:00–8:00pm
RADAR is pleased to present The Threshold Varies, a group exhibition featuring artists who engage in perception as something that is variable, contingent, and unstable. Artists include Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez, Ben Gould, Paul Heyer, Katrina Jackson, Will Krauland, Lawrence M., Susan Pasowicz, Forrest Frederick, Noelia Towers, and Lucy Walsh.
In psychophysics, the idea of the ‘absolute threshold’ is defined by the minimum intensity required for a stimulus to be sensed. It is the the point at which sound, color, or light crosses from not perceived into perceptible. It is a boundary that is never fixed, as it shifts with duration, proximity, and expectation, and becomes blurred over time with continual exposure.
In image-making, these boundaries are seen as similarly uncertain. We trust the image as it exists, relying on what is before us, even as its edges remain contingent and provisional. The works in The Threshold Varies operate within this tension between containment and overflow, hovering at the limits of visibility and testing how intensity becomes legible.