Before Meaning
SENSES & PERCEPTIONS
Sensation comes first...
raw, immediate, unfiltered.
Only then does meaning take hold.
The exhibition invites the viewer to encounter art at the elemental threshold of sensation, where seeing unfolds into feeling and experience precedes understanding— the fleeting instant before interpretation settles into meaning.
At its core, the exhibition remains anchored in the visual—the primary terrain through which perception is both ignited and complicated. Around this axis, discrete gestures of language, sound, and taste punctuate the experience, tracing how perception is never singular but composed of interwoven sensory threads.
Yet the exhibition resists the reductive celebration of the senses for their own sake. Instead, it probes the ways memory, context, and emotion infiltrate even our most immediate encounters. Perception here is not passive reception, but an active, recursive process—an interplay of sensation and meaning shaped by the sediments of individual and collective experience.
By situating sensation as both origin and threshold, the exhibition invites reflection on the influences beneath what presents itself as the obvious. In the space between sensing and knowing, it opens a subtle dialogue between art and the underlying currents of our perception.
Michael J. Korber Fracchiolla
SENSES & PERCEPTIONS
Opening Reception
May 1, 2025 • 5–9 PM
On view through May 2025.
CURB GALLERY
424 NW 12th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Reserve a time for a private gallery tour with the artist (Wednesday–Saturday, 11 AM–5 PM).
Private studio visits (in person or via Zoom) are also available by appointment.