Mostel perceives that drip paintings can express the scrambled feeling in your mind when you hear the federal government say that you can survive a nuclear war.
Karen Schiff
Karen Schiff (MFA/PhD) is an artist and wordsmith based in New York. In 2016, her "#" drawings appeared in exhibitions at Union College (NY) and Fred Giampietro Gallery (CT). She participated in the "Untitled (Stone Painting)" performance on Coenties Slip (NYC), and she presented at language-related art conferences in The Hague and Montreal. Her writings have been published in Art in America, Tate, Etc., Art Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Momus, Big, Red & Shiny, and elsewhere. Her essay on "Consideration (As an Antidote to Critique)" is forthcoming in Beyond Critique (Bloomsbury). She tweets at @KLSchiff.
Peace Beyond Words: ‘Tower of Babel’ at Schema Projects
The curatorial focus emphasizes the Genesis story’s foundational position in the mythology of language. This is fitting for an exhibition that brings together artists whose diverse languages — and even alphabets — represent countries well-steeped in the history of making language visible.