“Problematic” Exhibition
Brooklyn Fire Proof
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The exhibition demonstrates work that engages with art’s most paradoxical natures and will include works by members of the Con Artist Collective: Laura Tack, Ko Irkt, Michael Sharp, Miranda Nichols, Olivia Fox, Charles Allen, Chris Simon, Cody Oyama, Saroj Patel, Matsumoto Sanpo, and Eric Steginsky, and curated by Sessa Englund.
Art inhabits a space in-between subjects: It embodies a reflection of the past and a creation of the future, a movement towards order and disorder within its own entity. Using this subject as a starting point, this exhibition deals primarily in the way in which contradiction, absurdity, and conflict can become inspirational to the artist on his/her path toward art-making that is
investigational, divisive and explorational.
The thirteen invited artists, working in a wide range of media (from traditional painting to installation work), were asked to center their process on three contradictions which they perceive to be inherent in the contemporary practice of art: art as rejuvenator and self-destructor, art as both dependent and independent upon consumerism, and art as both a heightening and an obfuscating agent in our attempt to perceive reality. The resultant exhibition displays a variety of work in a range of mediums, all speaking to the individual artists’ struggle with the common paradoxes of the artistic practice.
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Schedule
from July 17, 2013 to July 23, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-07-17 from 19:00 to 23:00