Metro Poles, Art in Action
October 2008 - January 2009
John Powers, Captain America (2008)
January 17, 3p-6p - Panel Discussion at JCAL
Mix and mingle with the Metro Poles artists.
November 13, 2008 – January 17, 2009
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432; 718-658-7400
Opening Reception Press Release
JCAL presents Metro Poles, Art in Action, a curatorial collaboration with the Bronx River Art Center, the Asian American Arts Center, and the Maiden Lane Exhibition Space. Metro Poles, Art in Action debuts on Friday, October 17th with the opening of John Powers: Captain America at the Maiden Lane Exhibition Space located at 125 Maiden Lane, in lower Manhattan. John Powers' Captain America was commissioned by Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, and Maiden Lane Exhibition Space is sponsored by Time Equities Inc.
From October 17, 2008 – January 17, 2009 the four galleries will serve as hubs for creative experimentation. A core group of artists will be given the opportunity to create work in each gallery that reveals their vision of nexus, collaboration, and social relationships. The gallery will be their stage for the duration of a week. Each artist in the core group will then invite an additional artist to continue their work, expanding upon the original artist’s momentum through addition, subtraction, inversion or re-position.
This second group of
artists arrives at the galleries the
following week to begin the
process of creation and revision.
That group passes the baton to
the next and so on until the second
to last week of each of the
gallery exhibitions. What would
normally be a closing is now an
opening as the artwork has been
transformed over time. This will continue for the duration of the exhibition with approximately 60 artists participating in the project. Throughout this time, each gallery will function as a collective studio—a site of constant creation and revision. By
switching the premise of opening
and closing receptions, the final
work will be on view during the last week of each exhibition.
The idea for Metro Poles was originally conceived by Heng-Gil Han, JCAL’s curator. It was later developed in collaboration with Jose Ruiz, Bronx River Art Center curator and realized in collaboration with Robert Lee and Elisabeth Akkerman curators of Asian American Arts Centre and The Francis J. Greenburger Collection/Time Equities Inc, New York respectively.
Each gallery will be open for
viewing during the entire
process. The public will have the rare opportunity to witness the
entire progression of artistic evolution.
The choice to allow the
artist to recommend, inherit and
control the course of an exhibition
elevates the role of the artist
while providing the curators,
artists, and viewers an opportunity
to interpret the scope of artistic
influence and collective
intelligence.
List of Participating Artists
Press Release
Exhibition Card
October 17, 2008 - January 30, 2009
Maiden Lane Exhibition Space
125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038;
212-206-6061
John Powers: Captain America
Maiden Lane Exhibition Space is sponsored by Time Equities, Inc.
John Powers' Captain America is commissioned by Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
October – January 2009
Asian American Arts Centre
26 Bowery 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-233-2154
Visit www.artspiral.org for a schedule of events.
October 27 – December 6, 2008
Bronx River Art Center
2000 Bronx St, Bronx, NY 10460; 718-589-5819
Visit www.bronxriverart.org for a schedule of events.
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