Meticulosity

By Anne Swett

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Meticulosity,"April 28-July 7, 2012 held at Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design."Meticulosity" features the work of eleven Southern California based artists and three poets.The artists, Tanya Batura, Hilary Brace, Eileen Cowin, Linda Hudson, Gegam Kacherian, SandeepMukherjee, Ross Rudel, Linda Stark, Arthur Taussig, Elizabeth Turk and Samira Yamin work invarious genres ranging from painting to installation to ceramic and digital formats while the poets, Guy Bennett, Dennis Phillips and Martha Ronk work with words, grammar and sound. All offer up exceptionally thoughtful artwork where the visual acuity is as important as the originating idea to the process of its creation and we have selected a variety of disciplines to underscore the plurality of our point of view."Meticulosity," like the best of titles, serves as anintroduction and welcome into our curatorial method and motivations for assembling this particular group of artists from the Southern California region. The word meticulosity derives from meticulous, which in turn traces its origin to the Latin meticulosus ("full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful") from metus ("fear") and culosus, which is extracted from periculosus("perilous"). It is synonymous with something painstaking, careful, scrupulous, punctilious, oreven fastidious. While these adjectives indicate attentiveness to all aspects or details, our use ofthe term is intended to underscore the thoughtful focus and physical processes of these artists,which are not obsessive ends in themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477407022
• ISBN13: 9781477407028
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.2" x 8.3"