Jon Horvath, Wide Eyed : Variations

Jon Horvath
Wide Eyed : Variations
February 5 – April 10, 2021

The Alice Wilds is pleased to announce the opening of Wide Eyed : Variations by Milwaukee-based artist Jon Horvath, on view from Friday, February 5 through Saturday, April 10, 2021.

For this, his second solo exhibition at The Alice Wilds, the artist has selected photographs from his ongoing and open-ended body of work, currently in its 15th year. Horvath will rehang the exhibition multiple times throughout the run of the show in order to experiment with new sequencing strategies, image relationships, and poetic structures. A companion publication pairing Wide Eyed images with responsive text from various writers will be released in early March and available for purchase in the gallery.

Wide Eyed persists as the undercurrent of Horvath’s full artistic practice, bridging the gaps between more pointed and scripted works. As such, the project embraces the act of photographic wandering, seeking moments of discovery and identifying parallels between seemingly unrelated events. Wide Eyed functions analogously to an archive or database; a repository for meditations, glimpses, and passing thoughts about anything he may come to encounter within the everyday. It is a breathing body of images that continues to change shape and embrace new arrangements upon each unique installation.

Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist routinely employing systems-based strategies within transmedia narrative projects. He received his MFA in Photography from UW-Milwaukee in 2008, and BA’s in both English Literature and the History of Philosophy from Marquette University in 2001. Horvath currently teaches in the New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

For the second sequence of Wide Eyed : Variations, on view from March 5-20, 2021, the artist has made use of a sequence randomizer to dictate the order of the prints on view. Horvath will modify the installation each day during this three-week cycle (six rotations in full), in order to generate new opportunities for the pictures to communicate with each other and establish new interpretations within the work.

 

 

Please see below for a virtual tour of this exhibition, captured by Josh Hintz, owner and director of Var Gallery.