“The Rivington School” Exhibition

“The Rivington School” Exhibition

FusionArts Museum

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Adriaan van der Plas curates THE RIVINGTON SCHOOL @ FUSION ARTS.

Scot Borofsky, Jim C. (James Cornwell), Michael Carter, Christopher Hart Chambers, Linus Corragio, Angel Eyedealism, Richard Hambleton, E.F. Higgins III, Ken Hiratsuka, Istvan Kantor, Julius Klein, Shalom Neuman, Robert Parker, Therese Rodrigues, Susan Strande, Toyo Tsuchiya, Kevin Wendall (aka FA-Q), NIna Sobell, and Krzysztof Zarebski

The Rivington School presents an excavation which explores a group of artists who creatively thrived around Rivington and Forsyth Streets on New York’s Lower East Side during the 1980s. The Rivington scene was centered around three tiny galleries, Nada (helmed by artist Jim C.), Freddy the Dreamer, and No Se No (formerly the site of the social club/performance space of the same name) and a sculpture garden created in an adjacent vacant lot. This Wild East scene attracted hundreds of painters, sculptors, and performers; drawn by its free-form & wild energy, and largely non-commercial atmosphere. While all of these artists were doubtlessly influential in the creation and promulgation of the Rivington scene, the network in the Rivington School stretched far and wide and had international reach, further prompting exhibitions in Japan and Europe. Similar to both the graffiti movement and the DIY tradition of punk rock, the Rivington artists generally evinced a kind of street energy impossible to replicate today. It was the product of a place and time. This exhibition affords a vital glimpse into a still-too-little-understood cavern in time called The Rivington School.

Additional background and history is available: The Rivington Street School - 80’s New York Underground, edited by Istvan Kantor (Black Dog Publishing, 2016), and Invisible Underground, photos by Toyo Tsuchiya (Howl! Publishing, 2016.)

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• Installation

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