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Hearing Aids & Other Personal Prosthetics
January 20 – February 16
Opening Reception, January 26 5-8pm
January 27, 12pm Artist talk with Yevgeniya Kaganovich and Heather Layton

Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics combines the ambiguous body objects of Yevgeniya Kaganovich with the absurd character paintings of Heather Layton.

Kaganovich, a metals artist and Assistant Professor at UWM, has selected three-dimensional pieces from her own collection that act as devices, which extend the body and the senses in order to intensify several modes of communication between people. As wearable objects, these ‘hearing aids' allow people to listen more carefully on a literal and metaphorical level: feeling emotions more intensely.

The work exhibited by Heather Layton, a painter who is currently teaching at the University of Rochester, also attempts to unveil forms of interaction and communication through her work. Her paintings juxtapose interdependent, vulnerable characters as thy make desperate and often unfulfilling attempts to emotionally connect with each other. The characters are created in a world where fiction and nonfiction are one in the same and where emotional closure is always a step away. Together these works bring focus to the issues of interpersonal communication and psychological states of intimacy and isolation, providing an awkward tension between what is functional and dysfunctional.

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