The Truth Is…

Group Exhibition

April 6 - May 13, 2023

Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” April 6, 6-8pm
Artist walk-through: “Saturday After”, May 6 at noon

Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to announce The Truth Is…, a thematic group exhibition exploring truth and the many ways it is revealed, challenged, distorted and denied. The artists in this exhibition comment on truth and the different ways it can be perceived and obscured, whether through fear, indifference, ignorance, or mendacity.

With work by:

Humaira ABID
Juventino ARANDA
Ross Palmer BEECHER
Priscilla DOBLER DZUL
Chris ENGMAN
Steven MOSELEY
Roger SHIMOMURA
Ric’kisha TAYLOR
Joey VELTKAMP
Oliver WASOW
Dan WEBB
Marc WENET
Anthony WHITE
David WOJNAROWICZ

Work in exhibition

Humaira Abid

Humaira Abid's intricately carved pine protest signs look uncannily like worn and weathered cardboard with slogans announcing truths that have been ignored or actively avoided.

Juventino Aranda

Juventino Aranda's large-scale painting, REFLECTIONS OF TOMORROW'S PAST (FOG OF WAR), mimics Claude Monet's REFLECTIONS OF CLOUDS ON THE WATER- LILY POND both in composition and dimensions. Painted on camouflage patterned Pendleton wool in black oil stick and resin, the image's beauty is obscured by the murkiness of conflict, the camouflage accomplishing its goal to conceal and disguise.

Ross Palmer Beecher

A metal quilt work by Ross Palmer Beecher uses imagery from evangelical comics, called Chick Tracts, to contrast theological and secular truths with monster movie horrors.

Priscilla Dobler Dzul

Priscilla Dobler Dzul's embroidered fabric work explores the nationalism and pride in America's painful, dark history of genocide, erasure, and displacement of indigenous peoples, detail often left out of history books and classrooms.

Chris Engman

Chris Engman's photographs cause viewers to question what they are seeing and whether they can believe their eyes.

Steve Moseley

HEY BIG BROTHER, LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING, a sculpture by Steve Moseley, asks, "What about the interactions between police and Black men in America is true?"

Roger Shimomura

Roger Shimomura's TEACHER is a woman in a hijab holding an apple. The subject is both Muslim and an educator, yet the artist recognizes that only the fact that she is Muslim may be seen by some viewers. Behind her are the silhouettes of barbed wire and the barracks Shimomura has included in much of his work, referencing the the detention camps Japanese Americans were forced into during World War II.

Ric’Kisha Taylor

Joey Veltkamp

Joey Veltkamp's soft painting, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, contains a statement most would say is as true as it gets.

Oliver Wasow

Oliver Wasow's photoshopped portraits of the Trump administration aim to reveal the true souls of subjects known for their "alternative facts."

ROGUES GALLERY, 2016/2018
Suite of 20 archival inkjet prints
20 x 16 inches each
SOLD

Dan Webb

Dan Webb's sculpture, FIRE FLOWERS, addresses climate change, a subject whose cause and solution are questioned by some, while others refer to its mere existence as a hoax.

Marc Wenet

Marc Wenet's THE YOUNG SCIENTIST explores how a young man's inner thoughts and life can be unknown or revealed, depending upon one's perspective.

Anthony White

Anthony White's painting, BLISS, presents a mirror covered in stickers and graffiti referencing Antifa, "red-pilling," satellites, Google, and other subjects mentioned in contemporary conspiracy theories.

David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz's untitled letterpress print shows the artist as a young boy surrounded by a story that details a truth of the boy's life that so often is hidden away and denied.