"Commonalities: 4 Norwegians + 4 New Yorkers" Exhibition
NOoSPHERE
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.NO . a nonprofit gallery on the Lower East Side, presents Commonalities, curated by Noah Becker.
Commonalities is scheduled to open during Armory Week, NYCFs most important art event, when the international art world descends upon the city. Featuring four Norwegian artists, Commonalities is a perfect fit to the Nordic Focus of this yearFs art fair, and will stand out as a superbly crafted supplement to the grand event.
Commonalities consists of contemporary figurative painting selected by Noah Becker, the founding editor of WhitehotMagazine.com. Becker is a curator, writer, artist and jazz musician, and contributes to Art in America, Interview Magazine, Canadian Art and The Huffington Post. LThis exhibition shows an aspect of high quality work being produced in Europe and North America in our time. The idea of artists being automatically connected in some way is a fallacy fed to us subliminally and linearly. Art history is wound together with globalism through the mass distribution of images and imagery delivered in a linear digital mold. Much of what is documented in two-dimensional artistic practice is fed to the public in a manner that has a host of attached biases. The presumption of a common thread is an attitude propagated by linear thinking as linear thinking is part of everything we do now. In relation to contemporary art, the non-linear holds an important place. Linear thinking has its place in contemporary art, but on the whole I find more value in the non-linear interaction. Ciphers found in the procedure of opening one's email or social media brainwashing templates distort the meaning of these things. We are herded down a visual path without knowing it and our senses become conditioned. The public thinks together and group thinking is often template based or linear in its presentation. There is a shared invitation to show works in New York - then we see what transpires.S (Noah Becker)
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Schedule
from March 09, 2012 to April 01, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-09 from 18:00 to 20:00