Scratches on the Film features works by seven artists: Alex Prager, Amie Dicke, Janet Werner, Mark Armijo McKnight, Stephanie Temma Hier, Suzy Lake, and Tammi Campbell.
The exhibition explores the manufacture of meaning through transformation, psychological masks, performance, and artifice—uniting artists deeply invested in superficiality. Their shared focus on surface, veneer, and the appearance of appearances opens up ideas of abjection, repression, impulse, and latent violence.
This intergenerational and international group embraces seduction and narrative construction to examine key art historical themes, including originality, appropriation, the muse, control, and aesthetics.
