Through the Looking Glass
April 17 - June 30, 2014

Artists: Aileen Bassis, Bunny M, Marcy Chevali, Ruby Chishti, Lisa Conrad, Pam Cooper, LNY + NDA + Mata Ruda, Kevin Darmanie, Alexandra Desipris + Derek Rush, Naomi Frank, Chitra Ganesh, Richard Hart, Julie Heffernan, Aimee Hertog, Ryan Higgins, Jamie Kates, Sarita Khurana, Robert Lach, Leila Lal, Brendan Mahoney, Tehniyet Masood, L'OR, David Oquendo, Sa'dia Rehman, Khari Ricks, Esther Simmonds-MacAdams, Laura Quattrocchi, Nyugen Smith, Mary Ann Strandell, Kate Tiernan, Kelly Vetter, Virginia Wagner, Jennifer Watson and Saya Woolfalk.

Through the Looking Glass was inspired by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (1871), which follows Carroll's most famous character, Alice, as she continued her adventures through a perverse version of Wonderland. The exhibition explored ideas of parallel identity; in this context it could be seen either as a conceptual reflection of set or a projected fantasy about identity. Works in the exhibition featured both of these interpretations, and others that may have been derived from the multidimensional aspects of 'parallel'.

Through the Looking Glass was the sister experience to the Gateway Project public exhibition, Windup Wonderland, which explored ideas of fantasy and innovation. In their exploration of parallelisms, both exhibitions had themes and individual works that directly correlated with each other. The purpose of the show and larger program was to garner both a deeper understanding of identity and an expanded cognizance of potential as a byproduct of self-exploration and imagination.