"Material Witness" Exhibition
Kustera Projects Red Hook
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The conventional use of the term “material witness” refers to someone who has information that contributes important value to a legal proceeding. Here, we redeploy it specifically to mean artists who incorporate and explore abstraction, materiality, and physicality, revealing the non-obvious in mundane, found materials and objects. The artists are essential witnesses to some inherent, perhaps indefinable, meaning or essence; they all have and hold “relevant knowledge” about a case at hand.
Material Witness specifically considers materiality and abstraction by four artists – Charlotte Becket, Andy Coolquitt, Isa Genzken, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. All four artists incorporate industrial materials, defiant of common studio tradition. Moreover, they all explore physicality, incorporating found and rediscovered materials and objects into their work, each confronting conventional definitions of painting, sculpture, and installation. The objects these artists found and use are typically human-made, anti-natural by-products of innovation: tapes, films, plastics, fabrics, synthetics, and mechanical parts. Their work transmutes meaning of otherwise banal objects.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2011 to February 05, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-08 from 18:00 to 20:00