” Whitney Museum of American Art - Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition”
Artists Space
This event has ended.
Since its inception in 1968, the Whitney Independent Study Program has evolved from a small experimental project challenging established thinking about pedagogy and art to become a world-renowned model for an alternative approach to the education and professional development of young artists, curators, and art and cultural historians.
Ron Clark, ISP director, has remarked that the program recognizes “that there are always social and political stakes involved in cultural practice. Art and culture are never neutral or innocent. They are always shaped or determined in some way by social interests. This conception contradicts the central principle of conventional mainstream aesthetics that art is disinterested, autonomous, and separate from the social world.”
In keeping with these principles, the artists of this year’s studio program are committed to socially engaged, critical art practices. The works presented in Public Event critique the ideological effects of cultural representation using a variety of means and methods, from installation and sculpture to video and painting. These projects find urgency in questioning a range of discourses, from gun ownership, big data, and education to political incarceration, ecology, and postcolonialism.
Mimi Bai, Dana Buhl, Gabo Camnitzer, Sophia Dawson, Filipe de Sousa, Julian Irlinger, Wes Larios, Greg Lindquist, Gustavo Murillo Fernández-Valdés,
Maria Veronica San Martin, Stephen Sewell, Emily Shanahan, Asha Sheshadri, Kara Springer
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Schedule
from May 12, 2018 to May 19, 2018
Closing Reception on 2018-05-19 from 17:00 to 20:00