Best Laid Plans

“The standard visual art exhibition traditionally presents polished objects and ideas, ready to be considered and defended. This is not that. Eight artists present a room full of abandoned projects, suspect ideas, unworkable proposals, and folly that suggests the residue of struggle can still yield poetry.” – 2023 Philly Fringe Festival Guide

By presenting drawings and works on paper consisting of abandoned ideas and projects, harebrained schemes, weird notebook pages, shitastic drawings, and failed preliminary studies, “Best Laid Plans” embraces imperfection and unveils artistic churning. To that end, this exhibit defies convention by exploring artistic experimentation and vulnerability, celebrates the raw, impractical, and stalled, and ultimately grants access to artists’ personal journeys by exposing triumphs and tribulations and showing how the sausage is made.