F Newsmagazine spends five minutes with MFA candidates Linda Tegg and Brian M. John to discuss their joint exhibition “Mercury,” which just ended one-month its showing at the LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery. Employing the gallery as an active site of social encounter, “Mercury” served as a place for aesthetic investigation and knowledge production. Poisonous to humans, mercury is an amorphous, animated substance, yet plants depend on the light to photosynthesize; these co-dependent elements were drawn into immediacy using the gallery as a test site.
