Hill Art Foundation

Canvas, earth, ink, rock, string. These introduced, we are ready to encounter Dash’s fifteen additional works, all of which forthrightly make visible the ingredients used by the artist, a truth in materials or “principle of transparency,” as Hudson puts it. But we might still be surprised by the variety of her practice, as well as by an aspect not enumerated in the essay: the opportunity that the artist and curator have taken to explore installation as a medium, using the collections and the architectural quirks of the two levels of the Hill Art Foundation to build an exhibition that teases out the possibilities of siting and juxtapositions.