And So It Goes
An Exhibition by Anthony Warnick
Anthony Warnick's foredooming exhibition, And So It Goes, presents a constellation of thematically connected works engaged with news distribution, each using abstraction to forefront the structure of the news delivery.
The exhibition takes its title from Linda Ellerbee popularized news sign-off inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s repeated line “So it goes!” from Slaughterhouse-Five, and which was subsequently popularized in the recently resurrected sitcom Murphy Brown (in which Ellerbee guest stared in a meta collision of news and entertainment).
The works, like the title, weaves together how the system of news is both raw entertainment and bleak presentation of our smallness in the vastness of time; through distortion and pattern, the content recedes, revealing the system’s operation.
Anthony Warnick investigates the intersection of social systems and capital. He lives and works in Manhattan, Kansas where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Kansas State University. Warnick holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He works between digital media and sculpture producing works in media as varied as film, software, and gold. He exhibits nationally and internationally at Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit, MI), Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI), and CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea).