MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Grab a coffee. Really – pick a mug, fill it up, and drink as you wander through the gallery.

As you sip, consider: why do we always consume something at art openings? Cheese, wine, cookies – they become part of the ritual. Maybe it’s because tasting and seeing are so connected. Do the perspiring cheese cubes taste better when your eyes are consuming the strokes of a painting, the surfaces of a sculpture and the time unfolding in a film?

This is an exhibition for the mouth: for the eight muscles of the tongue, for the desire to take something in, to twist it around, to taste it, to swallow it. The mouth is always critiquing – telling us what is sweet, what is sour, what is safe, and spits out what is dangerous. It is deceived by sugar and kisses and delighted by coffee and conversation. 

Viewing art parallels the complexity of tasting coffee. The flavor profile is questioned by the nose and tongue, thumbing through past palate’s, discerning a match. It is one of those things that if you say it, then the delicate dance of your tastebuds falls apart, and the flavor becomes blueberry, or raspberry…no definitely lemongrass. But it isn’t blueberry, it is coffee fermented with the fruit on, dried out on the roof of a villa.

Several coffee roasteries will be tasted by gallery visitors throughout the length of the exhibition including Panther, Cat and Cloud, Heart Coffee Roasters, Casa Blanca, Good Citizen Coffee Co, Prodigal, Little Wolf, Portrait, Dayglow, Verve, Blue Cup Roastery, Luna Caffé, Luma, Black & White, Blanchards, Afterglow, Vigilant Hope, Stumptown, Go Get Em Tiger, Lineage, Coffee and Pussy, Perc, Alinea, French Truck, Methodical, Black Beard, and Lamplighter.

Drinking vessels contributed by the following artists: John Gargano, Maryam El-Awadi, Chandler Smith, Jennifer Schumacher Waller, Emily Rose Green, Raynia Johnson, Katelyn Guthrie, Rebecca Allen, Florence Wen, Chelsey LeBlanc, Mariia Orlova, Rey Hansen, Angelina Quigley, Zach Wollert, Aaron Wilcox, Kjelshus Collins, Faye Kennelly, Zachary, Delaney Miller, Ashley Merklinger, Fable Hyde, Lance Wilson, Heather Lee McLelland, John Thomas Richard, Angel Ohome, Willetta Bailey, Ina Kaur, Sarah Moschel Miller, Aaron Moseley, Eli Pillaert, Jeff Brown, Emma Brinkley, Adrien Lee, Karen Hoffpauir, Vijay Gondhalekar, Adrien Doucet, Brooke Cassady, and Steve Kelly.