Code Number Safe [Un]Safe — Hicks Art Center Gallery

Participating artists with website links:
Miriam Carpenter
Paul W. Evans
Helen Rebekah Garber
Hand Drawn Map Association (Kris Harzinski)
Daniel Healey
Edward Ellis Hughes (Courtesy of The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art)
Barbara Martin
Kathleen McSherry
Neal Pressley
Lorna Simpson (Courtesy of The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art)
Steina and Woody Vasulka (Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix)

The premise of the exhibition "Code Number Safe [Un]Safe" was built around the concept of numbers and numeric systems holding values for safety and stability or on the contrary- impermanence and oppression. The cohort of artists participating in the exhibition use numbers and numeric identifiers to describe personal, process and historical narratives through sculpture, painting, collage or visual diagrams/images that symbolize spaces for realized well-being or containers of conflict.

Read the press release for Code Number Safe [Un]Safe here.

An Artist Talk with Helen Rebekah Garber took place on February 2, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. in the Zlock Performing Arts Center.
To watch on YouTube, follow the link here. An Opening Reception followed in The Hicks Art Center from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Map Making Workshops with Hand Drawn Map Association founder Kris Harzinski took place on February 7, 2023 from 10 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. in The Hicks Art Center, Room H100. Harzinski facilitated and guided participants to create hand drawn maps using memory and reflections on quotidian movements through the landscape.

Miriam Carpenter, 11, 889, hand-carved white oak, 2017

Neal Pressley, No. 7, woodblock prints, 2020

Steina and Woody Vasulka, Solo for 3
4:15 min., color, sound, 1974
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Kathleen McSherry, Tempest Fugit, mixed media, 2016

Edward Ellis Hughes, #2 Man in the Mirror,
acrylic and collage on board, 1982
Courtesy of the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of
African American Art

Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1-2-3-4
7:46 min., color, sound, 1974
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Paul Evans
top row: Phone Home, Game Over, acrylic, pencil, paper on wood panel, 2022
bottom row: Focus Pocus, acrylic, pencil, paper on wood panel, 2022
2 in One, acrylic, pencil, paper on paper, 2022

Barbara Martin
top row: Carnage for Audobon, 2021 It’s A Conundrum (Which Came First), 2021
bottom row: Dance Dance Revolution, 2016 The Eyes Have It, 2018
Mirror, Mirror, 2016, all acrylic, oil pastel, pencil on cradled plywood

Kathleen McSherry, MS Nightmare, mixed media, 2015

Daniel Healey
from left to right
1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-, Letraset, found paper, 2020
1234567890%-/-, Letraset, found paper, 2021
Associated Students’ Store, University of California, Letraset, found paper, 2021
Executive, Prepared by, Date, No., Letraset, found paper, 2022

Installation of drawings from the archive of the
Hand Drawn Map Association, courtesy of Kris Harzinski

Ben Blackmore
Franconia Notch
2011 [New Hampshire, United States]

Unknown
created during the Hand-Drawn Mapmaking workshop at the Museum of Modern Art
2020 [New York, New York]

Unknown
found by Kris Harzinski in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia
2011 [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Lorna Simpson, Counting, photogravure and screenprint
edition 44/60, 1991
Courtesy of the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art