"Demo Eco M.O." Exhibition

NURTUREart

This event has ended.

The earnest pursuit of environmental responsibility has even determined the opening night refreshments for this exhibition. Guests will "eat local" by sipping filtered rainwater and nibbling on sprouts grown on site.

Special Guest curator Linda Weintraub invited ten artists from the NURTUREart registry to break the conventions of art display and production that arose during the first flush of industrial productivity. Instead of taking abundance for granted, tolerateing waste, and disregarding contamination, the artists exhibiting in Demo Eco M.O. 'Demonstrate Ecological Modes of Operation' in art.

Weintraub explains, "The unconventional materials, tools, and processes the artists introduce comprise a professional critique targeting artists, gallerists, art supply manufacturers, and other art professionals. They are eco-crusaders whose fervor for environmental reform coincides with delight in humor, commitment to community, and generous offerings of good will. Together they minimize art's footprint upon the environment and maximize art's mark upon the culture.
MasseyBehind-the-scenes eco-innovations occurred during the weeks preceding the opening. Weintraub invited the artists to emulate the interdependencies, interconnectedness, and efficiencies that characterize vital ecosystems as they prepared their artworks. A spirited exchange was thereby initiated as the artists reformulated art practices according to these mandates:

- Mediums were traded among the artists.
- Visual components of artworks were exchanged.
- Tools were shared.
- Communications between studios and the gallery became an art performance.
- Maintenance regimes on one artist's work were integrated into another artist's piece.
- Illumination of all the artworks was contributed by one artist's light sculpture.
- Catalogue-binding was a communal activity in which the artists hand-bound each catalogue with the by-products of their studio practices.

Meanwhile, the network of interactions expanded to include members of the gallery staff. They participated in the material exchanges and scrupulously applied sustainable criteria to the production of the exhibition catalogue, invitation, and wall labels. Even members of the board were enlisted to supply components of works of art. In all these ways the rigid borders that isolate artists in their studios and separate professional roles dissolved. It was replaced with a dynamic multi channeled arena of participation that avoided redundancies, reduced consumption, eliminated waste, and conserved energy.

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Schedule

from July 18, 2008 to August 18, 2008
Opening Reception: July 18, 7 - 9 pm.

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