“Work” Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
This event has ended.
Organized in collaboration with Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Work is a show constructed to engage issues of labor, value and authorship in the commercial art market.
Here’s the process:
Over two work days immediately prior to the show’s opening, the 16 artists will collaboratively make a single composition, each determining a single mark or intervention on a standard 16 x 20 inch canvas.
Day one will consist of the design and development of this painting, involving a collaborative effort to determine the best “product” for
the art workers to manufacture.
Day two will be production day, in which the chosen composition will be “mass-produced” in an assembly-line fashion, with each artist working at a station of their own design.
Sticking to an 8-hour work day (with breaks), the labor involved in studio production will become an integrally balancing factor in the commodification of the final artwork. The notion of the individual’s studio production will be toyed with, amplified, and diluted as there will inevitably be too many cooks in the kitchen.
The resulting paintings, manufactured like an artist-run factory, will be hung together in the gallery for the duration of the show.
Sarah Crowner, TM Davy, Michelle Grabner, Joanne Greenbaum, Keltie Ferris, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, David Kennedy Cutler, Brad Killam, Michael Mahalchick, Eddie Martinez, Yuri Masnyj, Sam Moyer, Ian Pedigo, Kate Shepherd, B. Wurtz
Media
Schedule
from June 27, 2013 to July 27, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-06-27 from 18:00 to 20:00