EXIT ART HISTORY
GEOMETRIC DAYS
02/25/11 – 04/30/11
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, Herb Tam
Artists: Rico Gatson, Peter Hildebrand, Charles Koegel, Geoffrey Owen Miller, Driss Ouadahi, Paul Pagk, Nathlie Provosty, Dannielle Tegeder
Exhibition: GEOMETRIC DAYS is an exhibition of new paintings by eight artists whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures from microscopic, political, and spiritual dimensions. Geometry, abstraction and painting are ingrained in our interpretation of experience—geometry as measurement of space and time, abstraction as poetic expression of the visual, and painting as the manifestation of a will to communicate.
Event: April 23, 2011, Painting Club, with works by Stephanie Campos, Ariel Dill, Osamu Kobayashi,
Rebecca Watson Horn
AUTOTOPIA
04/08/11 – 08/05/11
Curators: Herb Tam, Associate Curator, Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator and curatorial interns Shifra Goldenberg, Julie Hanson, Yulia Khaitov, Centa Petersen, Jackie Siemon, Candace Strongwater, Frances Wilkinson, Margarita Yong Way, Terra Zenteno and Ying Zhu
Exhibition: AUTOTOPIA: Cars for a Better Tomorrow is an exhibition that focuses on eco-friendly cars. This show, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), investigates the history and future of alternative transportation in connection with political and environmental factors that have revolutionized the methods and technologies of transit.
Events: April 23, 2011, Eco-Friendly Car Showcase, in connection with Earth Day New York and the CO2 E-Race, and featuring a discussion by Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen
CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY
06/03/11 – 08/05/11
Curators: Herb Tam, Lauren Rosati, Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo
Artists: Ian Berry, Anindya Chakraborty, Kay Chernush, Jodi Cobb, Ricardo Funari, John Hulme, Stefan Irvine, Bruce Jackson, Naser Khan, Jennifer MacFarlane, Tiana Markova-Gold, Robert Miller, Jesse Pesta, Antonio Rosa
Exhibition: CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) and the second annual ECOAESTHETIC exhibition, investigated various forms of contemporary slavery—from human trafficking and the sex trade; to the exploitation of farm and domestic workers, immigrants and prisoners; to sweatshop, bonded, and child labor—through a bombardment of images taken by leading photojournalists documenting this issue.
Events: June 11, 2011, Contemporary Slavery Symposium: Conceived and organized by Mary Anne
Staniszewski; coordinated and organized by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati, with advice/support from Mark Looney. Introduction by Mary Anne Staniszewski, Panel 1: "The Long Chain of Slavery from Plantation to Prison" with moderator Eddie Ellis and panelists Gloria Browne-Marshall, Scott Christianson, Joanna Weschler; Panel 2: "The Slave Next Door: Local and Global Labor" with moderator Ron Soodalter and panelists John Bowe, Benedetta Rossi, Barbara Young; and Panel 3: "Trafficking, Sex Workers, Migration and Slavery" with moderator Tiantian Zheng and panelists Dina Francesca Haynes, Jennifer MacFarlane, and Norma Ramos; June 14, 2011, SEA Poetry Series No. 7 with poet Tonya Foster, artist Jesse Pesta and scholar Salamishah Tillet; July 5 - 26, 2011, Contemporary Slavery Screening Series with "Very Young Girls," followed by a Q & A with Janice Holzman,
Director of Communications and Development for GEMS; "Los Herederos / The Inheritors"; "Stolen," followed by a Skype Q & A with the directors; and "Ghosts," followed by a talk with Patrick Radden Keefe, author of The
Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American
Dream.
Excerpts from PAINTING CLUB
06/03/11 – 08/05/11
Curators: Herb Tam, Papo Colo
Artists: Stephanie Campos, Ariel Dill, Osamu Kobayashi, Rebecca Watson Horn
Exhibition: The Painting Club is an ongoing series of gatherings held throughout the year for participants to talk, learn and share the experience of painting. It is an unconventional, theatrical presentation of painting. Taking place in Exit Art’s Trickster Theater space, four artists present their paintings one at a time in the center of a stage lit by theatrical and photographic lights. Before each painting is presented to the audience, the title of the work is announced. The audience than has three minutes for silent observation. A reception follows.
Event: April 23, 2011, Painting Club
RICO GATSON: Three Trips Around the Block
9/30/2011- 11/23/2011
Curator(s): Exit Art with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Artist: Rico Gatson
Exhibition: RICO GATSON: Three Trips Around the Block is a 15-year retrospective of work by New York artist Rico Gatson. This exhibition is the third in Exit Art’s SOLO program, aimed at providing public visibility for under-recognized, mid-career artists through one person shows at Exit Art. Brooklyn-based Gatson was born in 1966 in Augusta, Georgia and raised in
Riverside, California. His work generates collective memory through the
exploration of symbols and images culled from popular culture and the
mass media, questioning issues of identity, racial intolerance, and the
status quo.
Events: October 14, 2011, RICO GATSON: Video Works, a one-night only program compiling Gatson’s complete discography of single-channel videos and a special single-channel version of "Spirit, Myth, Ritual and Liberation (2008)"; November 3, 2011, RICO GATSON in conversation with THELMA GOLDEN, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
NEW MONEY: Business Models for a Sustainable Future
9/30/2011- 11/23/2011
Curator(s): Wilson Duggan, Lauren Rosati, and Verena Straub
Artists: 141 Eyewear, Ahkun, Amani/Students for Fair Trade, Ecoio, Ecoist, Ecovative, FIG Ties, Interface, Kiva, Microplace, Mr. Ellie Pooh, MYC4, Of Rags, Our Goods, Out of Print, Playback, Raise India, TOMS, UniquEco, Zambikes
Exhibition: NEW MONEY: Business Models for a Sustainable Future, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), is an exhibition of videos, photographs, and socially conscious products from more than a dozen companies with business models that have environmental and social consciousness at their core, emphasizing sustainability and social responsibility. The companies and organizations included in the exhibit approach markets in new and innovative ways that foster cooperation, awareness, social and environmental justice, sustainability, philanthropy, stewardship, and humanitarianism.