“Double Blind” Exhibition
Garis & Hahn
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Garis & Hahn presents Double Blind . The group show will feature mixed-media installation, painting, photography, and live performance, as well as documentation of a past performance that viewers may contribute additional ‘data’ to, in the exhibition of 6 artists exploring cognitive science and psychology. There will be an opening reception at Garis & Hahn (263 Bowery, New York, NY 10002) from 7 to 9 PM on Friday, April 4th, 2014. Mental functions and behaviors remain a final frontier of the sciences with the latest advances in brain scanning and research technology telling us only how little we know about the vast and complex human brain. In Double Blind , the artists intervene with these scientific studies, contributing their artistic analysis of this and the past centuries’ attempts at unraveling the conditions and responses of the human brain. Just as a double blind trial (where results that might lead to bias are concealed from tester and subject alike) establishes a safeguard from preconceived influences and causation, Double Blind seeks to further a conversation on the many artists who are creating works that contribute to our understanding of cognition without mandate about how this information may be interpreted, elaborated or used. Examining the impact of external standards and norms imposed on individuals, Adam Payne creates homeopathic medicines for his ‘brand,’ A. Payne , which resemble pharmaceuticals that the national public consume on a regular basis. As art, their actual use is a mystery, no different than the FDA approved drugs that can affect each individual differently. Jason Alexander Byers creates images that resemble Rorschach inkblots with tar and paper that actually reference and appropriate film stills from cult movies. Taking a more personal, introspective approach, Karen Margolis creates beautiful organic artworks based on a secret color coding system that are considered her personal diary entries. The works capture the inner mechanisms of psychological awareness, an approach mirrored by the self-portraits and other works of Andrea Mary Marshall , whose personally reflective work examines her own instincts and behaviors amidst standardized gender boundaries and fetishes found in American culture.
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Schedule
from April 04, 2014 to May 03, 2014
Performance Date: April 15th, 6-8 PM
Opening Reception on 2014-04-04 from 19:00 to 21:00