"Black Mondays" Exhibition
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
This event has ended.
For hundreds of years, disaster and violence have been the primary characteristics of “black” days. Specifically, the term “Black Monday” has referred to diverse catastrophes – from a 13th Century Gaelic massacre to 21st Century financial collapse. It is on “black” days that terrible things happen without warning – events so unexpectedly bad that we are dumfounded by their repercussions. Right now, faced with multiple wars, financial meltdowns, ecological degradation, terrorism, racial conflict, and local scandal, every Monday seems like a Black Monday.
Week after week, the bad news does not relent and the work of the artists featured in Black Mondays will reflect the darkness of our troubled time. But there is a Gramscian resolve in the work of these artists; the pessimism of their intellect does not break the optimism of their will. That which is sinister reveals that which is lovely and this complexity of the work, especially in concert, describes a landscape of possibility, even hope.
Curated by Thomas McDonell
Media
Schedule
from May 11, 2009 to June 20, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-11 from 19:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
John Alexander, Ashley Bickerton, Sebastian Black, Ernesto Burgos, Jake Cohen, Brooke Eberle, Griffin Frazen, Rico Gatson, Joseph Gergel, Richie Gergel, The Harlem Shakes, Judy Hudson, Scott Hug, LOLA, Haley Mellin, Tim Pierson, Nick Poe, Caroline Polachek, Aida Ruilova, Borna Sammak, Max Snow, Michael St. John, Hunter Thompson