Seeing is not a neutral act. Our understanding of the visual world is shaped by our experiences, cultural conditioning, and surrounding environment. Meaning does not reside solely within an object; it arises from a participatory, constructed process. As the author Anaïs Nin reminds us, “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as ...
Drawn from the collection of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Under Pressure considers abstraction as a site of tension between order and disruption. Rather than offering escape, abstraction here operates as a point of collision, where systems intended to stabilize and contain begin to reveal their own instability. Across the works presented, a sense ...
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art presents Bede Clarke: King's Highway, on view September 18, 2026, through February 28, 2027. Bringing together ceramics and works on paper, the exhibition examines Clarke's enduring exploration of the vessel, drawing, and the expressive potential of the handmade mark. For more than four decades, Clarke has investigated the relationship ...