2021 Exhibition
29. Sound the Deep Waters
Mask Required Within the Art Installation Zone (Regardless of Vaccination Status). Social Distancing Encouraged. Hand Sanitizer Available.
Artist Information
Sound the Deep Waters is an Interactive Victorian Flower Language dictionary that invites visitors to submit secret messages via onsite tablet— love letters, prose, slogans, inside jokes, etc. will manifest as bold, brilliant, larger than life flowers, associated with their meaning. The floral imagery is derived from the Detroit Institute of Arts Collection and beyond.
Floriography, or the language of flowers, is the use of a flower as a means of expression. Thought to have originated between Turkish women, under the watchful eye of harem guards during the 18th c. the usage of floriagraphy as a coded language spread like wildfire during an emotionally repressed Victorian age. A specific type of flower may reference an individual’s trait, intention, sentiment, social concern, or condition. Purple lilac indicates the first hints of love while clover is associated with happiness. To the experienced, such intentions are known; to others the implications remain hidden in plain sight.
In Sound the Deep Waters, the Interactive Victorian flower language dictionary plays with this notion of subversive decor and helps shed light on language as a perceptual domain exploring how images and ideas intersect and experiments with how meaning is made and beliefs are constructed.
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Angela Fraleigh
Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY, PPOW Gallery in New York, NY, Inman Gallery in Houston, TX, Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM and James Harris Gallery in Seattle. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.
Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center (Shadows Searching for Light, 2018) and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Lost in the Light, 2015), the Everson Museum of Art (Between Tongue and Teeth, 2016) and the Delaware Art Museum (Sound the Deep Waters, 2019). Fraleigh looks forward to an upcoming solo exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She currently lives and works in both New York, NY and Allentown, PA, where she is Full Professor at Moravian University.
angelafraleigh.com
Josh Miller
Josh Miller works and teaches in the intersection between art, design, and software development. After receiving a Masters in Computer Science and an MFA in New Media, Josh taught courses in web & graphic design, video game design, creative coding, UX, and application development. Josh’s true interests lie in the intersection between design, programming and innovative user experiences. This influences not only his teaching, but also his professional practices, where he focuses on development of interactive installations and user-focused online experiences. Josh teaches at Kutztown University and has recently exhibited interactive installations in the Agrikultura exhibition in Malmo Sweden, the InLight festival in Richmond Virginia, and in a solo show in Allentown Pennsylvania.
Josh has 10+ years of experience building robust digital installations that are installed for long periods of time with heavy user interaction. One of his installations has been running every day for 5 years, another was installed in a bar for 2 months.
josh-miller.com