From time immemorial, humans have made sense of their world through art. Early human paintings and glyphs on cave walls have been found all over the globe, in a demonstration of our fundamental likeness.
“In the Beginning” is a new group art exhibition at Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville, bringing together an international assembly of artists whose work explores fundamental human identity, as well as the ways our cultures distinguish themselves. The collection is on display now through Oct. 5, and Nairika Cornett, the executive director of the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, recently joined Lois Reitzes on “City Lights” to discuss the exhibition.
When Cornett began to put together the exhibition with curator Carlos Solis, one of the most important things they looked for was an extremely distinct sense of self and cultural place.
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