Upcoming Exhibitions
If you happen to be in town for any of these exhibitions or if you just want to poke around some more websites, here is where I will be during the month of september.
NOTE: the works in these shows are SITE SPECIFIC, so if you want to see them, YOU MUST PHYSICALLY GO TO THEM, once the shows are gone, the works are painted over.... sorry, but that;s what happens
Jersey City Museum of Art (jerseycitymuseum.org)
Tropicalisms
September 14, 2006 - January 14, 2007
This exhibition asks fundamental questions about the tropical landscape and how contemporary artists have used it in their work, either to subvert common (mis)conceptions or simply quote this scenery as part of an everyday experience. Exploring the history of the colonization of the New World as a land of savage and unexpected beauty, this exhibition rejects utopian visions of the tropical landscape that continue to mark their presence in contemporary tourist literature. Instead, artists explore the difficulties inherent in the development of this problematic reading of the tropical landscape. Featured artists are: Manuel Acevedo, Matías Aguilar, Elia Alba, Adriana Arenas, William Armbruster, Nicole Awai, Terry Boddie, Norton Bush, José Camacho, Javier Cambre, Vladimir Cibyl Charlier, David Antonio Cruz, Jon Cuyson III, María Dominguez, Jeffrey Gibson, GULDSVEINEN (Monika Broz+Andrew Wilkson), Andre Juste, Vandana Jain, Deborah Jack, Kristina Jacob, Jeff Jacobson, G. Jerome, Rajkamal Kahlon, María Lau, Builder Levy, Miguel Luciano, Lynn Mullins, Joan Pamboukes, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz, Gloria Rodríguez, Natalie Shook, Joseph Stella, Rhonda Tymeson, Mary Valverde, Juana Valdes, Raul Villarreal, Amy Wilson.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (icaphila.org)
Fables
September 9 - December 17, 2006
Exhibition Walkthrough with artists Christopher Myers and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Naomi Beckwith, 2005-2006 ICA Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow:
Friday, September 8, 5-6pm, ICA Members Only, join on-site
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Fables," a group show of artists who have either fabricated personal histories, or reconsidered history through their own fanciful imaginings, in order to break free of the very conditions of historic and cultural narrative. "Fables" is on view September 9 through December 17, 2006 in the Project Space at ICA.
This exhibition brings together works that project particular social subjects—the artist, the immigrant, the person of color—in narratives shaped by conceptual practices. The urge to tell a story merges with the desire to dismantle one in works that represent a range of media. For example, Kara Walker's silhouettes portray psycho-sexual fantasies about antebellum America and Bronx-based Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz's drawings explore her Puerto Rican heritage through pop-cultural heroes.
"Fables" will include established and emerging artists of color living and working in the United States. Their practices encompass a variety of media who are operating within a conceptual art framework. Artists include: Kara Walker (b. 1969, Stockton, CA) who revived the 19th century silhouette cutout tradition to explore race and sexuality; Kanishka Raja (b. 1969, Kolkata, India), whose drawings and paintings of architectural interiors combine complex styles and complicated perspectival lines; Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (b. 1973, lives and works in the Bronx) whose works focus on her Puerto Rican heritage and the place of Latinas in North American society; and Christopher Myers (b. 1972, New York City) whose works on 19th-century circus and fair "freaks" explore the construction of mythical identities through public display.
Whether by invoking social history or deploying science (witness the current commercial surge in genealogical DNA testing), people have a desire to create a narrative that accounts for their past and perhaps sheds light on their present. "Fables" exemplifies how some artists work through that desire while underscoring prominent trends in contemporary thought not exclusively recent art: the critical use of narrative, the role of fantasy, the creation of fictitious personae, and engagement with a "post-identity" politics in conceptual art practice.
Haven Art gallery ( bronx, ny) (havenarts.org)
10 Curatorial Perspectives
September 4th -- 29th
Reception Friday, Sept. 8th, 6 to 9pm.
Curators include:
Carie Clark
Edwin Gonzalez
Barry Kostrinsky
Anat Litwin
Aristides Logothetis
Wayne Northcross
J.C. Rice
Tim Rollins
Nathan Schreiber
and
Zimad
NOTE: the works in these shows are SITE SPECIFIC, so if you want to see them, YOU MUST PHYSICALLY GO TO THEM, once the shows are gone, the works are painted over.... sorry, but that;s what happens
Jersey City Museum of Art (jerseycitymuseum.org)
Tropicalisms
September 14, 2006 - January 14, 2007
This exhibition asks fundamental questions about the tropical landscape and how contemporary artists have used it in their work, either to subvert common (mis)conceptions or simply quote this scenery as part of an everyday experience. Exploring the history of the colonization of the New World as a land of savage and unexpected beauty, this exhibition rejects utopian visions of the tropical landscape that continue to mark their presence in contemporary tourist literature. Instead, artists explore the difficulties inherent in the development of this problematic reading of the tropical landscape. Featured artists are: Manuel Acevedo, Matías Aguilar, Elia Alba, Adriana Arenas, William Armbruster, Nicole Awai, Terry Boddie, Norton Bush, José Camacho, Javier Cambre, Vladimir Cibyl Charlier, David Antonio Cruz, Jon Cuyson III, María Dominguez, Jeffrey Gibson, GULDSVEINEN (Monika Broz+Andrew Wilkson), Andre Juste, Vandana Jain, Deborah Jack, Kristina Jacob, Jeff Jacobson, G. Jerome, Rajkamal Kahlon, María Lau, Builder Levy, Miguel Luciano, Lynn Mullins, Joan Pamboukes, Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz, Gloria Rodríguez, Natalie Shook, Joseph Stella, Rhonda Tymeson, Mary Valverde, Juana Valdes, Raul Villarreal, Amy Wilson.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (icaphila.org)
Fables
September 9 - December 17, 2006
Exhibition Walkthrough with artists Christopher Myers and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Naomi Beckwith, 2005-2006 ICA Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow:
Friday, September 8, 5-6pm, ICA Members Only, join on-site
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Fables," a group show of artists who have either fabricated personal histories, or reconsidered history through their own fanciful imaginings, in order to break free of the very conditions of historic and cultural narrative. "Fables" is on view September 9 through December 17, 2006 in the Project Space at ICA.
This exhibition brings together works that project particular social subjects—the artist, the immigrant, the person of color—in narratives shaped by conceptual practices. The urge to tell a story merges with the desire to dismantle one in works that represent a range of media. For example, Kara Walker's silhouettes portray psycho-sexual fantasies about antebellum America and Bronx-based Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz's drawings explore her Puerto Rican heritage through pop-cultural heroes.
"Fables" will include established and emerging artists of color living and working in the United States. Their practices encompass a variety of media who are operating within a conceptual art framework. Artists include: Kara Walker (b. 1969, Stockton, CA) who revived the 19th century silhouette cutout tradition to explore race and sexuality; Kanishka Raja (b. 1969, Kolkata, India), whose drawings and paintings of architectural interiors combine complex styles and complicated perspectival lines; Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (b. 1973, lives and works in the Bronx) whose works focus on her Puerto Rican heritage and the place of Latinas in North American society; and Christopher Myers (b. 1972, New York City) whose works on 19th-century circus and fair "freaks" explore the construction of mythical identities through public display.
Whether by invoking social history or deploying science (witness the current commercial surge in genealogical DNA testing), people have a desire to create a narrative that accounts for their past and perhaps sheds light on their present. "Fables" exemplifies how some artists work through that desire while underscoring prominent trends in contemporary thought not exclusively recent art: the critical use of narrative, the role of fantasy, the creation of fictitious personae, and engagement with a "post-identity" politics in conceptual art practice.
Haven Art gallery ( bronx, ny) (havenarts.org)
10 Curatorial Perspectives
September 4th -- 29th
Reception Friday, Sept. 8th, 6 to 9pm.
Curators include:
Carie Clark
Edwin Gonzalez
Barry Kostrinsky
Anat Litwin
Aristides Logothetis
Wayne Northcross
J.C. Rice
Tim Rollins
Nathan Schreiber
and
Zimad
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