Reconsidering The Negative: An Interview With "The Space Between" Co-Curators

Jason A. Maas, "Mounted Patrol"

So do you have a favorite piece?  As a curator, are you even allowed to have a favorite piece? JG: I love all of the artwork! No, they're all very different.  Some people have a more expressionistic depiction of form or they're photorealists or they use different mediums, so it's a very difficult question to answer. EG: I like the fact that the exhibition space is only accessible through the gallery gates, because you can see through them and that's a sort of negative space in itself. JG: That isn't intentional, but I think that you have the right idea that [the exhibition] makes you think of what else around you has subtraction in it.  Because there are so many things in life that are not created intentionally with [subtraction] in them, but they just happen to be that way. EG: So do you see the exhibition as expanding or moving elsewhere? JG:  Yeah, Ryan and I have discussed this idea of maybe taking it elsewhere... one day with abstract work that has the same idea [of subtraction].... We're playing with the idea and seeing what we can do with it - if there's interest there. Jason A. Maas Mounted Patrol, 2012 Charcoal on Paper You can check out "The Space Between" through Friday, December 13 at The National Art Club.  For more information, go HERE.