2019 Curatorial Focus
What would it look like if an artist designed and operated municipal government? A hospital? Your bank? From our thousand square foot former automotive shop and garage at 324 Elmwood Avenue we are experimenting with methods of becoming, breaking, and remaking an institute. We’re staging three exhibitions alongside interdisciplinary workshops and lectures, and inviting various partners and communities to participate in events based around the artists’ works.
In Maggie Schrecongost’s My Body My Corpse the passive female nude of classical tableau painting is transformed into hyperactive subject, author, and secret agent from a cyber-dimension right next door. Using herself as her primary model, Schrecongost’s work is informed by art history, collage, sci-fi, and feminism, looking simultaneously forward into the future and back into the past, probing the myths and images that haunt our present.
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