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Title:	Loring Taoka: ±
Date:	6/11/2022 - 3/27/2023
Address:	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way , Bentonville, AR 72712,
Location:	Bentonville, AR
Hours:	Mondays and Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. / Thursdays and Fridays: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. / Saturdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/loring-taoka/
Contact Info:	(479) 418-5700

Details:

What do you see when you look at this pattern? Do you recognize certain shapes? Do the colors evoke a memory? For artist Loring Taoka, designs like this operate in ambiguous and limitless spaces. They balance between chaos and control, sugar-sweet pastels that blend and crescendo into disorienting layers. In ±, Taoka immerses a section of the Contemporary Art Gallery in such a pattern, inviting visitors to leave their expectations and comfort zones behind and fall into a space of illegibility. Walking down the hall, visitors can engage with the pattern through moments of optical disruption through the lenses of frosted glass, light boxes, gels, acrylics, and protrusions that pull the pattern off the wall and bring it into the memories, experiences, and personal references of the viewer.