Future Exhibitions

The ideas explored in Ann Resnick's solo exhibition Tell Me What You Think of Me stem from a consideration of Rodney King’s famous question, “Can’t we all just get along?” It’s a seemingly simple query, yet it gets at the core anxieties of our fraught times. For this show, Resnick intends to present and juxtapose the perspectives and methodologies of multiple disciplines—from psychology and sociology to the occult—to try and understand how and why humans differ from each other as widely as we do and how we might bridge those differences. The component pieces of the exhibition will use and reference numerous tools to get at this elephant of a question from different angles.

Tell Me What You Think of Me builds on work begun over a year ago, in the Fall of 2024, when the Salina Art Center presented the first part of this project: Tell Me What You Think of Me, Part I: Something to Divine. During the run of that exhibition, the artist and curator gathered data from SAC visitors through a custom-designed survey. 46 people participated, creating a dataset that became the starting point for the full exhibition. For this second and full presentation, Ann Resnick is creating a new group of works driven by the collected data. The data has also been analyzed by several experts, including a handwriting analyst, a sociologist, a psychologist conversant with the Myers-Briggs personality types, and a professional tarot reader. Our hope is that in this new exhibition, visitors will see themselves represented in a new and surprising way as a community and that everyone attending the show  will question what lenses we use to perceive those around us and how we form opinions about others. 

Guest curated for the SAC by Ksenya Gurshtein.

About the Artist
Ann Resnick was born in 1954 in Syracuse, NY. Over the course of her career, she has been an artist, gallery owner, and cultural instigator and experimenter. She studied at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, the Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art, and the University of North Carolina. Trained as a printmaker, Resnick has engaged with a broad range of materials and processes, including wood burning and digital signal processing. She married artist and creative partner Kevin Mullins in 1982; together, they lived and worked in New York, New Mexico, Alaska, North Carolina, and in Kansas since 1995. Resnick has a 30-year record of exhibitions stretching from Maine to New Mexico and from Japan to Brazil. Her work has been the subject of more than 50 reviews and is in the public collections of the Ulrich Museum of Art, The Art of Emprise, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the William Benton Corporation. She is represented by Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita.

About the Curator
Ksenya Gurshtein is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and translator living in Wichita, Kansas. She has worked at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among other institutions. In 2023, she received the Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. She has produced exhibitions and published widely on a range of topics in modern and contemporary art. Her work strives to foreground lesser-known histories, look to places historically peripheral to the Western canon, and support the work of arts institutions and artists as agents of social change. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan and has received support for her work from the NEH, Getty Research Institute, and Mellon Foundation.