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.