In Plain Sight

Published on the occasion of the museum-wide exhibition with the same name, In Plain Sight features the work of fourteen national and international artists whose work addresses narratives, communities, and histories that are typically hidden or invisible in our public space (both conceptually and literally defined). The group exhibition and publication engage artists who reveal untold stories and champion repressed voices that have been undervalued or deliberately silenced to reveal public narratives that have been obfuscated, intending to reimagine the future.  The presenting artists approach the exhibition’s theme from a range of directions, varying across all media as well as aesthetic and conceptual contexts. Works encompass deliberately activist endeavors and direct documentation; the unpacking of individual histories excluded due to race, ethnicity, or class; explorations of coded language for protection, secrecy, or both; the illumination of invisible or covert systems of labor,