“PLUS ONE” Exhibition
Sideshow Gallery
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Presented by Sideshow Gallery, the 2014 MFA Alumni of SVA are pleased to announce Plus One, a one-year-after exhibition of new and recent work by twenty-six of these graduates, featuring painting, photography, drawing, video, and sculpture, curated by Melanie Kress. Having presented their thesis exhibition and completed their degrees in spring of 2014, Plus Oneoffers a look at their practices one year later. While they present predominantly disparate works, these artists nonetheless form a collective portrait of reentry – both hurdling headlong into their careers and striving against the impossibility of supporting oneself as a practicing artist in New York.
Exiting a place of rigorous self-examination and perpetual self-defense, much of this work is united by the examination of interior space, and of omission, of the gap required in the production of novel work and ideas. In pieces that examine brain mapping, sensorial patterns and their digital analogues, or purely a continued dedication to self-portraiture, many of these artists devote themselves to an outward projection of psychological space. The gaps, fractures, and negative spaces that emerge in many of these artworks approach a constitution of the core of the creative act, as well as that of consciousness, subjectivity, and thought. Following Adorno’s writing on gaps in his opus Minima Moralia, often it is precisely distance from formal education that allows its lessons to be fully realized.
Melanie Kress is the High Line Art Curatorial Fellow at Friends of the High Line and one third of the writing collective The Rare Element. In 2010 she co-founded the Brooklyn-based project space Concrete Utopia, of which she was Director and Chief Curator until its closing in 2012. In 2009 she was the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship at the Slought Foundation. Her projects have been featured at organizations including Artists Space and Art in General in New York; Bétonsalon, Paris; Schalter Projektraum, Berlin; and the Deptford Old Police Station, London. She holds a BA in Art History and Studio Art from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Featuring: Julie Bahn, Julia Buntaine, Graciela Cassel, Youri Choi, Donna Cleary, Elizabeth Cook, George Davis, Tiffany DiOrio, Leah Dixon, Anthony Donatelle, Byul Han, Katrin I Jonsdottir Hjordisardottir, Rachel Jantzi, Jee Hee Kang, Shinyoung Kim, Yeonji Kim, Alison Kuo, Lucy, Chris James Martino, Jennifer Alexandra McDermott, Andrea McGinty, Nadia Haji Omar, Jonathan Sedor, Manuel Vazquez, Art Vidrine, Jacob Williams
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Schedule
from July 10, 2015 to July 12, 2015
Artist(s)
Julie Bahn, Julia Buntaine, Graciela Cassel, Youri Choi, Donna Cleary, Elizabeth Cook, George Davis, Tiffany DiOrio, Leah Dixon, Anthony Donatelle, Byul Han, Katrin I Jonsdottir Hjordisardottir, Rachel Jantzi, Jee Hee Kang, Shinyoung Kim, Yeonji Kim, Alison Kuo, Lucy, Chris James Martino, Jennifer Alexandra McDermott, Andrea McGinty, Nadia Haji Omar, Jonathan Sedor, Manuel Vazquez, Art Vidrine, Jacob Williams