"Common Jive" Exhibition
EFA Project Space
This event has ended.
"Common Jive" presents a spectrum of contemporary artists who summon up vernacular and traditional craft approaches in their art-making practice. Organized in a collaborative effort between curator Julie Fishkin, and artist Saya Woolfalk, the fifteen artists in the exhibition engage the dichotomy between communal pasts and the individual experience, intertwining them visually through the manipulation of common materials and re-examination of time-honored aesthetic practices. The work in the exhibition represents strategies of both the self-taught and formally trained. Rather than making a distinction between these tactics, "Common Jive" argues that these artists, presenting a resurgence of dedicated artistry combined with a concern for conceptual rigor, are part of a contemporary communal discourse.
[Image: Ai Kijima "101" (2008) fused, machine quilted 31.5 x 27 in.]
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Schedule
from April 03, 2010 to May 15, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-03 from 18:00 to 20:00