"A New Currency" Exhibition
SVA Chelsea Gallery
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “A New Currency,” an exhibition of work created in response to changing economic circumstances affecting the contemporary art community. Organized by recent graduates of the MFA Fine Arts Department and curated by faculty member Dan Cameron.
The exhibition is the culmination of a three-part project that developed out of discussions in an MFA Fine Arts seminar taught by Cameron. In contemplating economic struggles faced by artists and the art community, the organizers hoped to develop a model for applying art’s experimental methods to a fundamentally entrepreneurial task: rethinking the relationship between art and systems of exchange.
The artists first organized and created new works around the theme “A New Currency” for an exhibition in a vacant storefront at 55 Delancey Street, New York City. Then they invited artists outside New York to stage their own exhibitions, performances or research on the same theme during the months of May and June. These efforts, along with the first exhibition, are documented and developed in the second part of the project: a Web site developed by Gregg Louis (MFA 2009 Fine Arts), www.anewcurrency.com.
Now, the third part of the project combines the local, global, and virtual efforts of “A New Currency” into one exhibition. The results of the offshoot exhibitions, documented through photographs, announcement cards, press clips and video, will be displayed alongside works from the first exhibition.
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Schedule
from July 11, 2009 to August 15, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-07-14 from 18:00 to 20:00