PASSENGER Presents:
LOST and FOUND: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures
Curated by Brian Barr
Hosted by PASSENGER Project Space, The Museum of New Art Detroit, and Starkweather Gallery
April 5- May 6, 2012
PASSENGER Project Space
Opening reception April 5, 2012, 6-8pm
Starkweather Gallery
Reception April 13, 2012, 6-8pm
The Museum of New Art
Reception April 14, 2012, 6-8pm
LOST and FOUND: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures looks at artists engaging with the concept of pictures in the era after the "death and resurrection of painting" in which images in any traditional capacity have become impossible in a critical context. In light of this impossibility comes the demand for a fresh investigation. LOST and FOUND showcases a generation of artist that are aware of the historical critique of the language of painting/images. This awareness informs their practice and a traversal of the liminal space between belief/doubt structures their conceptual framework. The show features painting (figurative, abstract and text), print media, transfers, collage, video, drawing, fabric, and sculptural works.
The artists exhibited are Njideka Akunyili (New York, NY), Hartmut Austen (Detroit, MI), Jordan Buschur (Lincoln, NE), Tim Campbell (Washington, D.C.), Jesse Harrod (Chicago, IL), Yui Kugimiya (Brooklyn, NY), Doron Langberg (New Haven, CT), Nick Martin Carbondale, IL), Ryan Parker (Philadelphia, PA), Lauren Rice (Detroit, MI), Amy Sacksteder (Ypsilanti, MI), Naomi Safran-Hon (Brooklyn, NY), Sharon Servillio (Queens, NY)
Brian Barr received his BFA from the College or Creative Studies in Detroit and his MFA from American University in Washington, DC. Barr has exhibited his work at venues nationally in Detroit, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis among others. His work was recently featured in New American Paintings. Barr has also curated CONSTRUCTS at org Gallery in Detroit, and Detroit Muscle: New Aesthetic Trends from the Motor City at the Rueff Gallery at Purdue University. He is a regular contributor to The Studio Visit, an international webzine based in Washington DC.
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