Over the past sixty years, artists have sought to merge easel painting and its secondary support, the wall, in manifold ways. The gallery or “white cube” has been engaged, questioned, and at times, dramatically altered. Artists involved with the exhibition Inside will present a brief illustrated overview of the development of their work in the exhibition followed by a discussion of how contemporary painters use elements of their studio practice to create site-sensitive wallworks or performances.

Inside includes work by eight artists who use the various technologies and traditions that painting offers to engage the Blackwood Gallery’s exhibition spaces and reflect on the established genre of interior painting. Several of the artists have painted directly on the Blackwood’s walls, while other artists are exhibiting mural-sized or more intimately scaled easel paintings. All of these artists connect painting in its many guises—from illusionistic or schematic tableau to a celebration of paint’s physical nature—with built interior spaces in order to ask us to reconsider painting’s longstanding critical and poetic engagement with the rooms we inhabit.