NYAB Event - Carmen Einfinger Exhibition

Carmen Einfinger Exhibition

Broadway Gallery

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Carmen Einfinger’s works are often a collaborative effort between herself and the audience, which she creates using florescent paints and a variety of other media. Lively, winding shapes contort around each other, cramming and crunching into smaller sizes in one area, then spreading out with great growth and volume in others. The forms in Einfinger’s paintings possess a hectic, frenzied circus-like feel. Scent Of Color, the artist’s recent project won an international competition to transform Dolna Square in Gdansk, Poland is one such work. Transforming the park into a vibrant outdoor gallery Einfinger was the only U.S. based artist selected to participate in the competition. The Broadway Gallery Exhibition will feature a model of the Dolna Square in Gdansk which was a collaborative piece with architect Alex Diez.

Following from the long list of previous artists engaging with relational or participatory practices, from Allan Kaprow’s happenings, to Fluxus’ performances, as well as the contemporary practices of artists associated with “relational” practices, such as Rikrit Tiravanija, Thomas Hirschorn, and Liam Gillick, Einfinger carries these artists’ legacies infusing her work with her own unique voice. Such artists all have one thing in common–activating the spectator. Einfinger is indeed an artist whose works embody the creative act as a social one, one of healing and companionship in which people come together to construct something larger than themselves.