The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) is preparing to unveil a large-scale, collaborative installation.
Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis: Rock Fade will open at the art museum on January 31st, and will be on view until August 16th.
Rock Fade invites viewers into an encounter with “deep geological time, human perception, and our impulse to order the natural world.”
It consists of a carefully selected sequence of stones arranged in a perfect line, gradually decreasing in size, from large boulders to grains of sand.
Regarding the work from husband and wife Clayton and Lewis, Jodi Thockmorton, JMKAC Chief Curator, said, “Rock Fade takes something deeply familiar, a stone, and asks us to encounter it in a new light. As the sequence shifts from boulder to sand, the work reveals how perception, movement, and shared experience shape what we understand as art.”
Then, on September 19th, a community procession will follow, again inviting viewers to transport the stones comprising the work from the museum’s gallery to an outdoor site at the Museum’s Art Preserve.
More information on Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis: Rock Fade, as well as other offerings from the Arts Center, can be found online by visiting jmkac.org.
