Thursday, May 16, 5:30-6:30 PM | The artists Peter Anderson and Caleb Brown featured in the exhibition, Mapping Memories of Place and Space along with Joan Hanley, The Vegetative Soul join in an informal interview-style conversation with audience q&a to close out the discussion.

Memory is similar to a map: constructed in superimposed layers. Multiple levels of information must be viewed together to get the whole picture, one that is flat and three-dimensional at the same time. Layers address memory, and temporality, and challenge the notion of containment. Peter Anderson and Caleb Brown present two unique approaches to the same subject of maps, time, and memory.

“The vegetative soul” was thought of as a lower soul, with the others above it and of greater value. Its powers were nurturance and growth. This exhibition celebrates the vegetative soul through paintings and installation work, Joan Hanley paints family members on cell phones, coupling, grouping, and uncoupling as if seen by a plant in the room or a tree out the window.