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Past Exhibitions Fordlândia, Brazil Transmissão Fordlândia organized by Stephanie Elyse Sherman and Agustina Woodgate September 17 - October 14, 2017 Transmissão Fordlândia considers the history of the failed plantation city of Fordlândia through a sound art exhibition in partnership with a local radio station. Deriving inspiration from the Amazon's auditory ecosystem, Northern Brazil's vibrant musical heritage, and Fordlândia's fallen machines, the project features site-specific sound works. exh. #198 Tbilisi, Georgia Illegal Kosmonavtika organized by Magda Guruli and Mariam Natroshvili June 24 - July 22, 2017 Through workshops, a zine, and artworks, this project resurrects and examines Soviet Cosmonautics for the generations that came of age after its decline in 1991. exh. #196 NYC Promises to Keep organized by Rabbya Naseer June 8 - July 29, 2017 Promises to Keep confronts the rarity with which performance art is exhibited in Naseer’s native Pakistan. She presents the work of twelve female Pakistani artists, addressing how women specifically use the medium to engage in self-representation and socio-political issues. exh. #195 Tarrafal, Cape Verde A Glimmer of Freedom organized by Marzia Bruno April 8 - May 6, 2017 Using site-specific installations and land art, this exhibition explores the history of an abandoned prison that held political prisoners during the 20th century. exh. #194 NYC Outlaw Glass organized by David Bienenstock March 30 - May 27, 2017 As cannabis legalization continues to take root and spread rapidly, much of the media discussion surrounding this societal sea-change has been focused on the economics involved. But how will ending the War on Weed transform us culturally? To better understand what authentic underground cannabis culture has to offer, Outlaw Glass examines work from four leading "functional glass" artists. exh. #193 Berlin, Germany Un-Working the Icon: Kurdish "Warrior-Divas" organized by Shawna Vesco and Anne Wheeler February 4 - March 4, 2017 Un-Working the Icon: Kurdish "Warrior-Divas" questions the ethics of western media's iconization of Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State. The exhibition features work by artists who instead engage the lived realities and complex identities of these women, opening a dialogue about the political, social, and epistemological stakes of individual and community identity. exh. #192 NYC Animal Intent organized by Emily Falvey January 19 - March 18, 2017 Animal Intent tracks how animal culture is used as a point of departure for a range of artistic practices focused primarily on interspecies communication. The exhibition questions whether creative labor is strictly a human trait. exh. #191 Thiaroye, Senegal Guis Sou Me Le Mbao (I Do Not See You at Mbao) organized by Claude Gomis and Saskia Köbschall November 12 - December 10, 2016 The commemoration of the 1944 massacre of Tirailleurs Sénégalais (African soldiers conscripted by the French army) inspires this exhibition’s reflections on (post-)colonial politics of memory and the persistence of racial and economic injustice. exh. #190 NYC Youniverse organized by hannes bend November 3 - December 17, 2016 Channeling the abilities of art, contemplative practices, technology, and science to maximize subjective and collective consciousness, Youniverse encourages new strategies for achieving social cohesion and higher thinking. exh. #189 NYC Botany under Influence organized by Clelia Coussonnet September 8 - October 22, 2016 Botany under Influence explores systems of meaning that have been impressed upon nature, flora, and seeds throughout eras of imperialism, colonialism, and globalization. The exhibition reveals how the exportation of natural resources has affected power structures and cultural behavior. exh. #188 Hong Kong, China How to Make Space organized by Jennifer Davis and Su-Ying Lee June 25 - July 23, 2016 How to Make Space highlights the powerful way in which female migrant workers in Hong Kong, China, use temporary structures to create community. exh. #187 NYC Fencing In Democracy organized by Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret Dorsey June 2 - July 30, 2016 Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret Dorsey bring together artists, architects, and activists who have re-imagined designs for the US-Mexico border wall or fought its construction, addressing the role of art and architecture to draw attention to important issues of eroding democracy. exh. #186 NYC Space Between the Skies organized by Christopher Manzione March 24 - May 14, 2016 Space Between the Skies replaces the physical space of apexart with multiple virtual landscapes, either created from imagery collected at real world sites or from 3D constructed spaces. exh. #185 NYC Setting Out organized by Shona Kitchen, Aly Ogasian, and Jennifer Dalton Vincent January 21 - March 5, 2016 Setting Out explores how the nature of expeditions has translated into the modern day with archaeologists, engineers, scientists, and artists exploring a variety of realms, geographical and beyond, while maintaining the same eager hunger to uncover the unknown as the world travelers of early expeditions. exh. #184 Istanbul, Turkey Apricots from Damascus organized by Atif Akin and Dilek Winchester December 23 - February 21, 2016 Apricots from Damascus invites artists to prepare survival guides in the form of zines for Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. exh. #183 Copenhagen, Denmark In Vitro (Studies On Entropy) organized by Marie Nipper and Peter Amby December 5 - December 31, 2015 In Vitro (Studies On Entropy) engages artists to show works in ten abandoned modernist vitrines in Copenhagen, Denmark’s city center, focusing on transformation and disorder. exh. #182 NYC Alternative Unknowns organized by Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken November 5 - December 19, 2015 Six New York City based artists and designers have been commissioned to create objects that provoke new ways of thinking about emergency preparedness. Each artist will be invited to a conversation with the NYC Emergency Management Department about emergency issues facing the city, and then will be tasked with designing object-based solutions. exh. #181 NYC Life After Death and Elsewhere organized by Tom Williams and Robin Paris September 10 - October 24, 2015 Life After Death and Elsewhere is conceived and organized in collaboration with prisoners on Death Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The exhibition focuses on designs by the prisoners for their own memorials, which take various forms. exh. #180 NYC Profiled: Surveillance of a Sharing Society organized by Mary Coyne June 4 - July 25, 2015 Despite opposition to the post-Patriot Act surveillance programs adopted by government agencies, individuals continue to engage with social media platforms, sharing personal information online. Profiled observes the dichotomy between an over-sharing society and government and military secrets. exh. #179 Beirut, Lebanon Space Between Our Fingers organized by Rachel Dedman May 2 - May 30, 2015 Space Between Our Fingers is an exploration of outer space as image, metaphor, and utopia, as imagined by artists from or in the Middle East. exh. #178 NYC Feel Big Live Small organized by Elan Smithee March 19 - May 16, 2015 Feel Big Live Small explores dioramas and miniatures as well as our fascination with all things small, both as a technical feat and a psychological relationship. exh. #177 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Beauty Salons and the Beast organized by Rehema Chachage and Jan van Esch February 7 - March 7, 2015 Beauty Salons and the Beast uses popup exhibitions in beauty salons and barber shops to experiment with community engagement. exh. #176 NYC FOOT NOTES: On the Sensations of Tone organized by Alastair Noble January 14 - March 7, 2015 Inspired by the musical theories of the nineteenth century German doctor and physicist Herman Helmholtz (1821-1894), Foot Notes: On the Sensations of Tone will examine how sound is an integrative principle in human and natural environments. Multi-media works and sound projects will map journeys, emotions, and memories. exh. #175 NYC Bianculli's Personal Theory of TV Evolution organized by David Bianculli November 6 - December 20, 2014 TV critic David Bianculli highlights the evolution of television themes over time and reflects on his personal relationship to the medium. exh. #174 Detroit, Michigan Trans-Farm organized by Yvette Granata September 13 - October 11, 2014 Trans-Farm engages with the world’s largest urban farming project to create and exhibit interdisciplinary urban agricultural works that blend the lines between edible, practical, artistic, and the technological. exh. #173 NYC Decolonized Skies organized by Yael Messer and Gilad Reich September 10 - October 25, 2014 The use of privately owned satellites and drones have grown exponentially in recent years – both for military and civil use – watching over an ever-expanding geography and people. Decolonized Skies re-conceptualizes the air space as ‘commons,’ reclaiming the sky through social and collaborative practices. exh. #172 Ramallah, Palestine UHF42 organized by Mike Crane May 29 - June 27, 2014 Broadcasting videowork via Palestine's only independent, nonprofit, and non-state sponsored news broadcaster, UHF42 is a weekly artist television program that aims to highlight the vitality of the television medium. exh. #171 NYC The Hidden Passengers organized by Avi Lubin May 22 - July 26, 2014 Through the work of eight international artists, The Hidden Passengers investigates the relationship between science and art and argues that by adopting scientific practices and tools, art finds a way to participate in the world. exh. #170 NYC Coding the Body organized by Leah Buechley March 20 - May 10, 2014 Exploring how code is being used to understand, control, decorate, and replicate the human form. exh. #169 Phnom Penh, Cambodia On the Streets organized by Chuong-Dài Võ January 25 - February 22, 2014 On the Streets recognizes the rapid urbanization in Southeast Asia through the entrepreneurial venture of street vending, and the impact of globalization on this culture. exh. #168 NYC Private Matters organized by Ceren Erdem, Jaime Schwartz, and Lisa Hayes Williams January 16 - March 1, 2014 Private Matters presents a group of artists who, through individual strategies of sharing various kinds of secure information with the audience, blur the boundaries of the public and private. exh. #167 NYC SCARYOKE!!! organized by Dan Kois November 7 - December 21, 2013 Dan Kois, Senior Culture Editor at Slate, organizes a show challenging audiences to find the fear, joy, and release in a Russian-roulette style karaoke exhibition. exh. #166 Marfa, Texas Heterotopia organized by crystal am nelson October 5 - November 2, 2013 Exploring the cultural landscape of Marfa that pre-dates Donald Judd and the contemporary art influence, Heterotopia will illuminate the pre-Minimalist history of this West Texas town. exh. #165 NYC Death of a Cameraman organized by Martin Waldmeier September 12 - October 26, 2013 In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the anonymous cameraman has emerged as a powerful new figure in the politics of representation. Death of a Cameraman explores the complex space between the camera and eye and between documentary, documentarists, and the documented. exh. #164 NYC organized by Kari Cwynar May 23 - July 27, 2013 This exhibition researches laughter as a destabilizing force, and will use a 6-month laughter epidemic in central Africa as its anchor. exh. #163 Memphis, Tennessee Memphis Social organized by Tom McGlynn May 10 - May 18, 2013 Presented in various venues throughout Memphis, this exhibition highlights local cultural traditions alongside the work of international artists. exh. #162 NYC Exhibition Space organized by Greg Allen March 21 - May 8, 2013 Images, objects, and perceptions from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey and Project Echo, two projects from the early days of the Space Race. exh. #161 Kampala, Uganda Video Slink Uganda organized by Paul Falzone and Marisa Jahn February 7 - March 6, 2013 Short-form experimental videos by artists from the African Diaspora will be shown in Ugandan video halls, gathering places known for showing pirated DVDs. exh. #160 NYC Open Sesame organized by Ola El-Khalidi January 17 - March 2, 2013 Open Sesame invites artists to respond to stories collected from families from Kuwait who were forced to leave their homes during Saddam Hussein's regime, moving to Jordan, Egypt, and the USA. exh. #159 NYC As Real As It Gets organized by Rob Walker November 16 - December 22, 2012 As Real As It Gets gathers fictional products, imaginary brands, hypothetical advertising and speculative objects, devised by artists, designers, and companies. We resist commercial material culture as inauthentic, phony, and less than legitimate, but should we? Presenting the marketplace as medium „ while supplies last. exh. #158 Lima, Peru Lima Rooftop Ecology organized by Carlos Leon-Xjimenez November 3 - December 1, 2012 Presented on rooftops in Lima's historic city center, the exhibition Lima Rooftop Ecology will look at poverty, historic preservation, and tourism. exh. #157 NYC UNREST: Revolt against Reason organized by Natalie Musteata September 12 - October 27, 2012 UNREST: Revolt against Reason presents an international group of contemporary artists who tackle issues of inequality, conflict, and instability in recent history. The impetus for this exhibition begins with the wave of uprisings in Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, and Morocco. exh. #156 NYC The Permanent Way organized by Brian Sholis June 6 - July 28, 2012 The Permanent Way juxtaposes contemporary American landscape photographs with documentation of and information about the rapid expansion of railroads in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. exh. #155 Mexico City, Mexico Flesh and Concrete organized by Jaya Klara Brekke and Julio Salazar April 19 - May 17, 2012 The exhibition Flesh and Concrete examines the contradictions in the visually impressive but socially destructive process of infrastructure development, exemplified in the construction of the extension to the Supervia Sur-Poniente highway in Mexico City. exh. #154 NYC Consent organized by Lynsey G March 21 - May 12, 2012 Consent explores complicated questions of sex, pleasure, intimacy, and morality and how they relate to ideas of consent in pornography. The exhibition seeks to address the nature of consensual participation in adult material, as it collapses the distance between the us and them in porn and sex. exh. #153 Johannesburg, South Africa Just do it! Creative strategies of survival organized by Katharina Rohde February 4 - March 3, 2012 The exhibition Just do it! Creative strategies of survival investigates the complex relationship between local commerce, embodied by the proliferation of informal small businesses called Spaza shops in Johannesburg, and the global economy. exh. #152 NYC A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance organized by Mark Feary January 11 - March 10, 2012 A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance is an attempt to envision a state and culture that is shrouded in secrecy and is both the producer and victim of oppositional propaganda mechanisms. The exhibition seeks to develop a picture of what North Korea might be, in the absence of reliable, unbiased information of a nation that operates in exile from the international community. exh. #151 NYC The Walls That Divide Us organized by Miguel Amado November 9 - December 22, 2011 The Walls That Divide Us addresses the post-Cold War proliferation of nation-state and city separation barriers across the globe as symbols of dissent in contemporary politics. Featured artists examine the ideology of wall building as a means of dividing land and people to establish sovereignty. Selected works explore the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall, phenomena including imperialistic enterprises and migration, and current zones of conflict such as the U.S.-Mexican border and the Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory. exh. #150 NYC Private Stash: A Musician's Eye organized by Fred Hersch September 8 - October 29, 2011 Private Stash: A Musician's Eye explores the influences that shape jazz musician and composer Fred Hersch's work. The exhibition will feature everything from visual artwork to personal mementos, and will give visitors the opportunity to explore the many sights and sounds that have had an impact on his oeuvre exh. #149 NYC The Peripheterists organized by Jocko Weyland June 1 - July 30, 2011 With an often raw and personal undercurrent of neurosis and obsession and a tilt toward the refreshingly unordinary angle, The Peripheterists deal with traditional genres, bringing up old-fashioned but eternal questions about what art is, why people bother. If they walk away from it all do they remain artists, and are the most creative necessarily the ones who make it? exh. #148 Amman, Jordan We Have Woven the Motherlands with Nets of Iron organized by Eric Gottesman and Toleen Touq May 4 - June 6, 2011 A line drawn by man across a landscape allows populations to move but also to dream, to pray, to transcend. It is a means of control, at least until new technologies make new movements possible. We Have Woven the Motherlands with Nets of Iron will explore these questions about what remains of these lines in a post-colonial age. The show will occur on this line itself, after it was built, then broken, then revised and revived, at a time with the lines (borders) that this line (the Hejaz Railway) crossed are being redefined. exh. #147 Stockholm, Sweden Washed out organized by Corina Oprea, Isabel Löfgren, Judith Souriau, Milena Placentile, and Valerio Del Baglivo March 9 - March 14, 2011 Washed Out is a site-inspired exhibition held in Central Tv_tt, a community laundry facility in H_kar_ngen, a typical Stockholm suburb built in the 1940s according to the utopian urban ideals of early social democracy. Decades later, this still functioning laundry facility shares its premises with a publicly funded art center, Konsthall C, and a small collection of vintage laundry machines. exh. #145 NYC Let It End Like This organized by Todd Zuniga March 9 - May 14, 2011 What will they say about you when youÍre gone? What would you say about yourself? Let it End Like This asks a unique blend of writers, painters, directors, models, Olympians and brillianteurs in-between to create their own obituary, examining life gone by and still to come, deeds done or that remain, great loves won or still to be, and a few famous last words along the way. exh. #146 NYC Change the Channel: WCVB-TV 1972-1982 organized by Gary Fogelson and Michael Hutcherson January 12 - March 5, 2011 This exhibit's collection of original footage, press, and viewer correspondence encourages visitors not only to consider WCVBTV's impact from 1972-1982, but also to ponder the question, how might this happen again? Could the story of BBI's creation and dissemination of innovative programming inspire others in a position to impact an equally large audience? exh. #144 NYC comvideo organized by apexart November 10 - December 22, 2010 We invited artists and creative others from around the world to cut, dub, reverse, add to, and otherwise manipulate at least one broadcast commercial and submit a 60 second video. We asked you to add a critical element to the exhibition by watching and voting on as many videos as you'd like. The creator of the winning video will receive $2,000, and the top five videos will be shown on a public screen in Manhattan. exh. #143 NYC You can't get there from here but you can get here from there organized by Courtenay Finn September 15 - October 30, 2010 Some books capture you in the first line, others draw you in slowly, and then there are those books that you cannot penetrate. Each book has a unique way for a reader to enter and exit. Yet what makes all the difference is that every book contains the possibility for transportation. exh. #142 NYC Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup organized by Simon Critchley June 10 - July 11, 2010 The FIFA World Cup is the most important and widely watched sporting event in the world and will run this year from June 11-July 11, 2010, in South Africa. The germinal idea for the show is very simple: to create the perfect football environment, a sort of mini-soccer paradise at apexart for watching games. Around the games themselves, there will be talks, events and a series of works that show the curious place that soccer has in contemporary art. exh. #141 NYC Digital Domination - Cyber Nation organized by ABACA May 27 - June 4, 2010 The exhibition will attempt to link observations about the impact of cybernetics and digital media on our everyday relationships, curated by students from Satellite Academy High School Forsyth Campus and organized by ABACA. exh. #140 NYC Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining organized by Bad at Sports April 7 - May 22, 2010 For the last five years Bad at Sports, a collective based in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, has attempted to document their art world from the inside. The artists in the collective have logged close to 300 hours of audio interviews and (what might best be described as) reportage and produced thousands of blog posts and tweets for their site badatsports.com. exh. #139 Samut Sakhon, Thailand free size organized by Logan Bay March 13 - April 17, 2010 In a mass produced world of global goods, the act of creation is often lost or forgotten. Hidden machinery cranks and sweats out elements of our everyday life, yet we rarely glimpse the environment where ideas are physically forged. To produce the exhibition free size artists Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, and P7 will work directly in the Sinudom Silk Screen factory, in Thailand, along side employees creating works of art. exh. #138 NYC The Incidental Person organized by Antony Hudek January 6 - February 20, 2010 The exhibition argues that the Incidental Person stakes out a new position, outside of the 20th-century triad Joseph Beuys-Marcel Duchamp-John Cage. Unlike the latter, the Incidental Person does not seek to solve the art-life or mind-body problems. Instead, she or he fails to see them as problems at all, since for the Incidental Person art, life, mind, and body cannot be understood in opposition to one another. exh. #137 NYC AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence organized by Sandra Skurvida November 4 - December 19, 2009 Avant-Guide to NYC maps the art environment of New York of the twentieth century, reconnecting historic sites to their present functions. Marcel Duchamp's studio, Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, and Group Material, where are these places, and what are they now, in the constantly shifting cultural fabric of New York? The exhibition presents artists' works produced in response to the sites. exh. #136 NYC A Way Beyond Fashion organized by Robert Punkenhofer September 16 - October 24, 2009 A Way Beyond Fashion explores important issues raised by the fashion industry such as the projection of identity, the research for new technology and the question of sustainability in mass consumption. exh. #135 NYC Wondermare organized by Susan McIntosh and Albert Wilking July 8 - August 7, 2009 This exhibition takes the narrative template of Alice in Wonderland where childhood serves as a grand metaphor for the stages of development and the often nonsensical rituals that we must travel through in order to obtain a civilized or adult persona in the world we see through our looking glass. exh. #134 Los Angeles, California X, Y, Z and U organized by The League of Imaginary Scientists June 4 - July 3, 2009 apexart presents the exhibition X, Y, Z, and U curated by The Franchise winners The League of Imaginary Scientists at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. exh. #133 NYC I can't get no satisfaction: Contemporary views on the everyday organized by ABACA's Curatorial Studies students May 14 - May 30, 2009 exh. #132 NYC I Am Art - An Expression of the Visual & Artistic Process of Plastic Surgery organized by Anthony Berlet, M.D. March 28 - May 9, 2009 Leon Dufourmentel, a pioneer in plastic surgery, said in 1948, ñ...If I went to Picasso for my portrait, he would probably make me a monster and I should be pleased because it would be worth a million francs. But if Picasso came to me with a facial injury and I made him into a monster, aha, he might not be so pleased.î exh. #131 NYC Kick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love organized by Davy Rothbart February 11 - March 21, 2009 If the secrets to finding true love are often elusive, well, so are the secrets to making films about love. How do you inject humor into a film about heartbreak? How do you portray a happy romance without being too saccharine and oversentimental? Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart, at work on a personal documentary called My Heart Is An Idiot, has asked a collection of talented and eclectic friends to explore these and other challenges by producing short, love-related films of their own. exh. #130 NYC Nameless Science organized by Henk Slager December 10 - January 31, 2009 The debate on artistic research emerging worldwide in the field of visual art for some five years now tends to focus on what artistic research could be or should be. The exhibition Nameless Science aims to expand this debate by showing the outcome of artistic research in seven examples of best practices from artistic PhD projects. exh. #129 NYC Perverted by Theater organized by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young October 22 - December 6, 2008 Cognizant of the critique of Fried by postmodern theory and contemporary art discourse, Perverted by Theater gleefully inverts FriedÍs thesis, purposely selecting art for its theatricality and installing it in an environment molded by theater, to evoke temporality, the subject/object relation, the audience, the presence of the actor, the performance text, and the implication of dramaturgical concepts such as character, story, and plot structure. exh. #128 NYC fauxgala '08 organized by Vanessa Walters October 16 - October 16, 2008 The Man Piece, a Group Show including Jeremiah Clancy, Evan Collier, John Gregorio, Daniel Pettrow, Clayton Dean Smith, Eric Schmalenberger, Andrew Schneider exh. #127 NYC SCRAWL organized by Harley Spiller September 5 - October 11, 2008 SCRAWL consists of close to 100 different handmade pronouncements collected from the streets and subways of New York City over the past 25 years. The works on exhibition range from scary to silly, from terse suggestions to indecipherably complex amalgams of mathematical figuring, philosophical posturing, and political ranting. Whether the ideas are impeccably presented in uniquely beautiful calligraphy, or scribbled, illegible palimpsests, the creators all seek to have their ideas recognized, many silently urging their fellow New Yorkers to right wrongs both personal and universal. exh. #126 NYC Nessie Does New York: Monetizing Myth, Legend & Culture organized by July 2 - August 2, 2008 This show explored the commercialization of myth, legend and culture through such examples as the Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra and Bigfoot. exh. #125 NYC Come Out & Play organized by June 4 - June 14, 2008 6 days of projects organized by Azeb Worku Sibane, Vicky Shick, Daniel Seiple, Sheree Rose, Radhika Subramaniam, and Shelly Silver exh. #124 NYC The Blue Print. From The Ground Up. organized by ABACA May 16 - May 31, 2008 Through installation, new media and fine arts, these Curatorial Studies students explore works of art that address different relationships of power in the city. Students connect their personal experience and their life in New York City to visual and architectural manifestations of power and ideology around them. They will closely look at the architecture in their neighborhoods such as East New York, Harlem and the Bronx. exh. #123 NYC Lots of Things Like This organized by Dave Eggers April 2 - March 10, 2008 This show explored a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified by contemporary people like David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Nedko Solakov, and Tucker Nichols. This kind of art, which we refuse to name, is somewhat crude, usually irreverent, and always funny. It exists somewhere between one-panel cartoons and text-based art. exh. #122 NYC Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality organized by Boris Groys February 20 - March 29, 2008 Through visual elements and theoretical texts, the videos in this exhibition reflected on the application of appropriational technique to film. Each of these videos combines a theoretical text that is written and spoken by the author and film footage, fragments taken out of different movies and film documentations. At first glance these videos remind the spectator of the videos and short films that are used today to transmit knowledge, to comment on the news, to spread religious and ideological propaganda, or to be used in the framework of education. exh. #121 NYC The (Self) Promotion Show organized by January 9 - February 16, 2008 apexart held an open call, requesting submissions of a 30-second TV commercial about us from individuals and collaborative groups. The commercials are available for viewing on a public-access site, where viewers were encouraged to visit and cast votes for their favorite. In addition, all commercials were be on view as part of an innovative living-room-style installation at apexart from January 9 to February 16, 2008. The winning entry will have their commercial aired on network TV. exh. #120 NYC Land Grab organized by Sarah Lookofsky and Lillian Fellmann November 17 - December 22, 2007 As real estate prices have skyrocketed throughout cities of the world, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain a place. Some artists' responses to this situation mirror those of many practitioners in the sixties and seventies who moved to the margins to seek out an abandoned or still undeveloped site to live and work on an expanded scale. By contrast, no piece in LAND GRAB has involved a real estate transaction or finding that prime location. exh. #119 NYC Stalking with Stories: The Pioneers of the Immemorable organized by Antonia Majaca and Ivana Bago September 19 - November 3, 2007 Every new telling of a story perfects its narrative but also rearranges, edits and moves it further from its original, authentic plot. What do we remember? How do we remember and retell stories of the past? How do we project them into the future? exh. #118 NYC The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe organized by July 7 - August 11, 2007 The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe was presented in response to two major social issues of our time: biennialessness and poverty. Through an open call to curators and artists, over 450 people became with biennial. All works were available for donation. All 355 works in the exhibition were bid on and that nearly $13,000 was raised (in $10 increments) for the Robin Hood Foundation of NYC. exh. #117 NYC The Museum of Crime and the Museum of God organized by Luc Sante May 16 - June 23, 2007 The show is comprised of nearly one hundred artifacts from Sante's own collection--holy pictures, photographs, death letters, leaflets, posters, dime novels, relics, banners, and ephemera. These objects will be connected by a text running along the walls of the gallery. The visitor can choose to engage with the exhibition either superficially or in depth. Either tactic is guaranteed to leave a subconscious residue of ambiguity and doubt. exh. #116 NYC Don't Get It Twisted: Violence affects everyone organized by ABACA May 1 - May 12, 2007 This exhibition was curated and presented by high school students enrolled in ABACA's Curatorial Studies class held at Satellite Academy. This year's exhibition seeks to discuss and demonstrate different aspects of violence such as racism, stereotypes and social or historical injustice, as well as personal and emotional experiences with violence, through works of art. exh. #115 NYC Quick! Pull My Animated Finger organized by Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser February 27 - April 14, 2007 The two Jews from L.A. who bring you Drawn Together present the people who help write and draw the series in an ñartî exhibit. Artists from Rough Draft Studios show unpublished, unaired, uncensored and mostly unseen stuff. exh. #114 NYC Let Everything Be Temporary, or When Is The Exhibition? organized by Elena Filipovic January 10 - February 17, 2007 This exhibition brings together the work of a group of artists that consistently and very differently explore temporariness and, more specifically, the possibility of temporal instability in the work of art. This is manifest not so much as a subject, but rather as a constitutive element, shaping the artwork's fragility as well as the indeterminacy of an exhibition visitor's experience of it. Whether primarily motivated by the political, aesthetic, economic, or the intimate, these objects literally perform their temporal questioning. exh. #113 NYC Thanks: Returning the Favor organized by November 29 - January 6, 2007 Whether a gift for a superior, an inferior, a partner, family member or friend, issues of intent and meaning are part of the wrapping. This exhibition reconsiders the relationship of philanthropy, hidden meaning and gift giving. Ten local artists have each been commissioned to produce a gift. A present for someone they don't know. The only restriction given was that it had to fit in the gift box we provided, otherwise we would show whatever they gave us, with no censorship. exh. #112 NYC Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing organized by Andrea Grover October 18 - November 25, 2006 Phantom Captain explores art collaboration that involves amateur groups of individuals responding to ñcrowdsourcingî initiatives created by artists. Crowdsourcing is the methodology behind websites like Wikipedia, Threadless, Ebay, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, etc., where without the user, all that exists is the conduit for sharing media. User reviews and recommendations are the driving force behind websites like Netflix and Amazon. exh. #111 NYC neo-con. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art organized by Cristiana Perrella September 6 - October 14, 2006 Re-enacting (with a twist) famous conceptual works, the artists in neo-con level and humanize, by quirky humor and down-to-earth sensibility, the key principles of Conceptualism like the favoring of ideas over object-making, the dematerialization of the art object, the production of work in collaboration and often without a studio. exh. #110 NYC Gifts go in one direction organized by Alexander Nagel July 5 - August 12, 2006 How do the two terms, art and gift, dfine each other? This summerÍs exhibition results from interviewing a number of artists and non-artists about gifts given and received, presents reflections on how gifts redefine the boundaries of artistic production. exh. #109 NYC Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennale in New York organized by Edi Muka May 24 - July 1, 2006 This mini version of the Tirana Biennale asks: What happens to inhibitions in todayÍs swell of globalization? Does the old Polynesian term ñtabooî still have meaning, or have such notions disappeared in the ñeverything goesî drive of global Capital? To what extent do the power structures of our society differ from those of the past, and is history still relevant? exh. #108 NYC Re_dis_trans: Voltage of Relocation and Displacement organized by Aniko Erdosi April 12 - May 20, 2006 The act of leaving oneïs given place and occupying another is both emotionally and spiritually intense. What can be the gains of the physical and intellectual relocation? And, more importantly, can we displace our focus without losses? exh. #107 NYC Neo-Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter organized by Amei Wallach February 22 - April 8, 2006 From the Peloponnesian Wars to the Black Death and the War in Iraq, in dire times laughter has always been the best revenge. Art critic Amei Wallach surveys three generations of artists who amuse and appall. exh. #106 NYC One Brief Moment organized by Mark Soo January 11 - February 18, 2006 Selected artists will review the apexart archive to interpret, speculate, add to and imagine their own understanding of what specific past events at the gallery might have been like. exh. #105 NYC The Last Generation organized by Max Henry November 30 - January 7, 2006 Examines mechanical reproduction and seemingly ñanalogî approaches to art-making in our contemporary digital world. exh. #104 NYC If It's Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION organized by Mercedes Vicente October 19 - November 26, 2005 Exploring the complex relationship between mass media and global corporate culture, this exhibition explores the strategies of grassroots activism (installation, poster, video, radio, and internet art) to demand freedom of information rights and bring forward what is being omitted. exh. #103 NYC The Art of 9/11 organized by Arthur Danto September 7 - October 15, 2005 Featuring responses by artists to 9/11, the exhibition aims to show how art actually embodies grief and to reflect on how artists dealt with the attack. exh. #102 NYC Philosophical Toys organized by Sina Najafi June 29 - August 6, 2005 The tactile, visual, and philosophical fuse in this exhibition, historically anchored in the ñgiftsî innovated in the 1830s by Friedrich Fr_bel, the inventor of Kindergarten.; For the 2005 summer program, an invited writer - Sina Najafi (Editor in Chief, Cabinet magazine)- selects three art dealers to each choose an artist for a group exhibition, with the writer contributing a text. exh. #101 NYC Sacred Wild organized by Suzi Gablik June 25 - June 25, 2005 Sacred Wild will examine the way contemporary artists are drawn to sacred images and are using them in their everyday life. The six artists, based in Iowa, Virginia, and Illinois, incorporate or address the trend towards investigating one's personal spirituality over organized religious thought. exh. #100 NYC Afterall organized by Charles Esche April 27 - May 21, 2005 Issue #7 of Afterall will be turned into an exhibition This issue pivoted around the idea of the gothic as both the dark side (of artistic behavior) and complex visual patterning. exh. #99 NYC Social Democracy Revisited organized by Jonas Ekeberg March 16 - April 16, 2005 The exhibition proposes that the Nordic discourses on the subject may have a value in the current international political climate as well as highlights artworks that seem to contest this kind of purposefulness. Ultimately intervening into the realm between art and politics with the same ambivalence which is so prevalent in the Nordic system. exh. #98 NYC Maurizio Couldn't Be Here organized by Maurizio Couldn't Be Here February 12 - March 12, 2005 Five Saturdays of Events: Each Saturday from Feb 12 to Mar 12, apexart featured a performance-related activity: an all day line-up of special guest speakers, premieres of TV ads of contemporary artists, bands collaborating with video artists, a traditional Afghan-food tasting performance, and other surprises. exh. #97 NYC Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft Guerrillas in Tehran's Contemporary Art Scene organized by Amiel Grumberg (1980-2004) January 5 - February 9, 2005 Five Iranian artists use art as a tool for the demonstration of mental and physical constructions. exh. #96 NYC Drafting Deceit organized by Marta Kuzma November 17 - December 22, 2004 Drafting Deceit modestly approaches the construction of delusion as a deliberate gesture that infers a particular performability located in the purposeful drafting of the illusory. exh. #95 NYC Place for the Self organized by Amnon Barzel October 13 - November 13, 2004 This exhibition is about the meaning of a home, and a home within our own selves. A home where existential reflections and anxieties are accumulated through the dramatic events which characterize recent times. exh. #94 NYC Building the Unthinkable organized by Christian Stayner September 8 - October 9, 2004 If the atomic bomb threatens total destruction, the work in Building the Unthinkable then shifts attention to its productive element. This exhibition examines contemporary artistic and architectural production responding to an unlikely inspiration. exh. #93 NYC 2004 Summer Program organized by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz June 30 - July 31, 2004 The 2004 Summer Exhibition presented an interruption of the typical expectations artworks present to viewers. Cay Sophie Rabinowitz selected two gallerists (Brian Butler and Henry Urbach) to each choose two artists whom they do not represent for a group exhibition. exh. #92 NYC O.K. America! organized by Peter Noever May 26 - June 26, 2004 O.K., America! aimed to initiate a process of reflection on the ambivalent meaning of the fingerprint as a symbol of modern society. The work reflected on control and surveillance, identity and the freedom of artistic expression. exh. #91 NYC Black Dragon Society organized by Black Dragon Society April 21 - May 22, 2004 apexart moved Black Dragon Society and its Director from Los Angeles to NYC to take over the exhibition space. exh. #90 NYC Reciprocal Readymades organized by Stephen Wright March 17 - April 17, 2004 The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade: The use value of art reflected on the inability of art to empower anyone to do anything about socio-politial issues, despite promises supported by institutions, lending a largely unchallenged semblance of truth as well as the trustworthiness of convention. exh. #89 NYC Treasure Maps organized by Janine Antoni February 11 - March 13, 2004 Treasure Maps exhibited images that represented visual language in its broadest sense. Highly specialized technical illustrations (DNA extraction, matrix and vector space) appeared alongside ambiguous drawing-like records of physical movement, which allowed viewers to explore, and in many cases invent, the internal logic of each image. exh. #88 NYC Adaptations organized by Craig Buckley January 7 - February 7, 2004 Architecture and planning have often been privileged as sites for utopian projection. Adaptations looks at small-scale forms of independence and the context in which they have emerged to consider the potentialities they hold and the limits they encounter. exh. #87 NYC Looking Awry organized by What, How and for Whom curatorial collective, Zagreb, Croatia (Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic, Sabina Sabolovic and Ivet Curlin) November 12 - December 20, 2003 Aspects of repetition, re-actualization, re-staging and re-enactments (as a form of change and a source of knowledge), in relation to both history and contemporary political investments of everyday life and popular culture. exh. #86 NYC To be Political it has to Look Nice organized by Pablo León de la Barra November 11 - November 8, 2003 A series of intersections and distinctions in current contemporary cultural production from Latin America, featuring the collaboration of over 35 artists from 9 countries. The exhibition looks at and liberates stereoptypes of Latin American art. exh. #85 NYC Playing With a Loaded Gun: Contemporary Art in Pakistan organized by Atteqa Ali September 6 - October 4, 2003 Features work by 8 artists who explore the dichotomy of life in Pakistan, taking the nation's most difficult social, cultural, and political issues and examining them in beautiful and playful artworks. exh. #84 NYC 2003 Summer Program organized by Katy Siegel with Mitchell Algus and Michele Maccarone June 25 - July 26, 2003 Artforum contributing editor and art critic, Katy Siegel, has selected two gallerists to each select two artists that they do not represent for a four week exhibition. exh. #83 NYC Art After the Age of Mechanical Reproduction organized by Eugenie Tsai May 21 - June 21, 2003 Uncovers the many layers of the copy by looking at artists that either work directly from a reproduction or reproduce their own work. In both systems of production, the image is transformed in the artist's interpretation. The finished products deliberately never look like the source being copied. exh. #82 NYC Undesire organized by Vasif Kortun April 18 - May 17, 2003 Is it too romantic to treat an exhibition like a space of representation? Undesire articulates its curator's inability to be present in today's United States of America at war and the works echo the tensions and emotions that are created during a relationship of conflict. exh. #81 NYC Between the Lines organized by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt March 15 - April 12, 2003 Realizes an environment for information exchange of the many pertinent issues in the world today that are not being discussed by mainstream media. This idealized total resource system facilitates the dispersal of relevant information through the works by the artists exh. #80 NYC An Interest in Life organized by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston February 5 - March 8, 2003 Inspired by the Grace Paley short story by the same name, the exhibition An Interest in Life combines artworks demonstrating a liveliness that avoids art world hermeticism and encourages understanding through their plain spoken nature. exh. #79 NYC Walking in the City organized by Jill Dawsey and Melissa Brookhart Beyer January 4 - February 1, 2003 Walking in the City examines the work of Valerie Tevere, Alex Villar, Simon Leung, and Kim Soo-ja and highlights the way they engage with the historic strategies of resisting and negotiating regulated space developed by Valie Export, Yayoi Kusama, Adrian Piper and David Wojnarowicz. exh. #78 NYC sans an exhibition organized by various November 12 - December 21, 2002 sans, an exhibition consists of five weeks of disparate programming, with each day scheduled by a different artist, writer, and/or curator. exh. #77 NYC Time is Free organized by Jan Hoet/Ann Demeester October 9 - November 9, 2002 In Time is Free, the twentieth century notion of leisure time as unstructured and relaxing is challenged through the artworks by exh. #76 NYC Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country organized by Ted Purves September 6 - October 5, 2002 Invites a selection of artist collaboratives to create projects that seek to fill holes left in the social sphere by the retreat of government interest and support. exh. #75 NYC 222 - Summer Program organized by Sara Meltzer July 16 - July 27, 2002 Two gallerists each selects two artists whom they do not represent and who have not had meaningful exposure in New York for a two week exhibition. This year, artist and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud has selected Chelsea Gallery Directors, Anton Kern and Sara Meltzer to act as curators for the 222 program. exh. #74 NYC 222 - Summer Program organized by Anton Kern June 21 - July 10, 2002 Two gallerists each selects two artists whom they do not represent and who have not had meaningful exposure in New York for a two week exhibition. This year, artist and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud has selected Chelsea Gallery Directors, Anton Kern and Sara Meltzer to act as curators for the 222 program. exh. #73 NYC Public Key organized by Angeline Scherf May 15 - June 15, 2002 Does art always have to be explained, documented, mediated, exhibited? Will the artists of a transparent society have to submit to the rules of social control and the logic of marketing? The exhibition seeks to demonstrate that art strategies based on invisible, secret and encrypted proposals are now emerging within the informational paradigm. exh. #72 NYC The Passions of the Good Citizen organized by Heather Felty April 11 - May 11, 2002 The Passions of the Good Citizen will consider the desires implicit in consumer choices and how media and advertising drive those desires. The artists in the exhibition subvert, challenge, and in some cases succumb to the marketing methods so successful in advertising. exh. #71 NYC Art That Heals organized by Jean-Hubert Martin March 6 - April 6, 2002 An exhibition considering connections between beauty and health/healing. Work by Joe Ben, a New Mexico Navajo Indian, who heals people through traditional sandpainting; Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist living in New York, whose work reflects traditional Chinese medicines; and Gera and Gedewon, two Ethiopian scholars who make talismanic paintings to cure their patients. exh. #70 NYC Unjustified organized by Kerry James Marshall January 30 - March 2, 2002 Unjustified uses a curatorial strategy of resisting the implied justification for the array of works by not building the curatorial frame as a pre-interpretive device. exh. #69 NYC Gain organized by Kelly Taxter January 4 - January 26, 2002 Artists who have subverted the original purpose of certain machines, technology, and objects of everyday use emplay materials intended for industrial applications and assembly-line economy, the artist designs for them a new function: to produce unique sounds and images. Four performances held during the course of the exhibitions. exh. #68 NYC Revolving Doors: Public Sphere/Private Domain organized by Montse Badia November 14 - December 22, 2001 Revolving Doors: Public Sphere/Private Domain borrows its title from the renowned image by Man Ray that shows the door in Marcel Duchamp's apartment in New York, which opens a space and simultaneously closes another one and its reverse - evoking the notion of fluidity and confusion between the realms of the public and the private. exh. #67 NYC SportCult organized by Euridice Arratia September 7 - November 3, 2001 An exhibition of artists whose works explore the human fascination with sports, the pervasiveness of contemporary sports culture and its richness for metaphorial play. exh. #66 NYC 222 - Summer Program organized by Annie Herron/Larry Walczak July 18 - July 28, 2001 Two New York based artists Sante Scardillo, who confronts the impact of advertising on social behavior by ïhijackingÍ advertisements, and Amy Kao, whose mylar works are explorations of perceptual emergence achieved through light. exh. #65 NYC 222 - Summer Program organized by Derek Eller June 27 - July 14, 2001 Two artists concerned with personal existence within a broader context and rediscovering the familiar. LeCuyer mines his subconscious to discover original form; Wesselo alters his vantage point to discover new things about both the landscape and himself. exh. #64 NYC Lost and Found organized by René Block May 23 - June 23, 2001 Since the Readymade of Marcel Duchamp ñobjets trouv_sî are an important issue in modern and contemporary art. But what about the things lost? The exhibition tells us, in a few extraordinary examples, about loosing and finding. exh. #63 NYC Gesture, Posture and Bad Attitude in Contemporary News Photography organized by David Byrne April 18 - May 19, 2001 Byrne selected 20 news photographs to represent a documentation of a sort of choreographed performance - a dance of politics. exh. #62 NYC In/SITE/Out: Inquiries into Social Space organized by Karen Jones March 16 - April 14, 2001 Investigates the extension of art practice into public or non-traditional (art) spaces, using examples from Conceptual and Performances art projects and extending into contemporary works. exh. #61 NYC Demonstration Room: Ideal House: Apex Art: 2001 organized by Jesus Fuenmayor and Julieta Gonzalez February 7 - March 10, 2001 Forty artists from around the world were invited to design a house in response to issues involving the representation of utopia. Architectural practices may take an altogether different meaning, as the artists will not be bound to functional constraints. exh. #60 NYC Making the Making organized by Charles Goldman January 5 - February 3, 2001 Making the Making, an examination of artists who create simple machines not as artwork, but to assist them in making their work, using mechanical practices that were in existence long before photography or the computer. exh. #59 NYC Something Happened organized by Sally Berger November 15 - December 16, 2000 Something Happened looks at the individual ways in which creativity is directly and powerfully propelled in response to a life-altering moment, experience or event. It explores the ways in which different media, including sound portraits, video, animation, and the written word, can be used to create highly personal auto-portraits while simultaneously providing a testament to our shared autobiography as human beings. exh. #58 NYC Chinese Whispers organized by Ana Devic and Branka Stipancic October 11 - November 11, 2000 Focuses on various modes of communication techniques via such issues as the artistÍs position within a system of specific values, language as such, misunderstand-ings, absurdity, irony, etc., all in light of an Eastern European context. exh. #57 NYC Errant Gestures: Visual and Verbal Correspondances organized by Susette Min September 7 - October 7, 2000 Explores how select artists reveal, defamiliarize, or create manifold language systems in and through different media, featuring artists who collide words and images into disarray only to reveal a structure and texture of particular language systems. exh. #56 NYC 222 - 2000 Summer Program organized by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn July 12 - July 22, 2000 Both artists study the human condition„Lucas Michael through the lens of a camera, Nobuhira Narumi through the eyes of a dog. exh. #55 NYC 222 - 2000 Summer Program organized by Magdalena Sawon June 28 - July 8, 2000 Two projects that are a result of the artists' (Alexander Vaindorf/Jenny Althoff and Kiki Seror) online encounters and interactions. Both investigate the creation and experience of simulated reality of the internet. exh. #54 NYC Define: Context organized by José Ignacio Roca May 24 - June 24, 2000 Presents the work of six Colombian artists (Juan Fernando Herron, Antonio Caro, Jos_ Alejandro Restrepo, Miguel Angel Rojas, Jesus Abad Colorado, and Delcy Morelos) whose work reflects on the problems associated with the reception of a work of art in the absence of a proper context. The fact that the artists come from Colombia will not only not be stressed, but altogether ignored, leaving the works to provide the context by a close interaction between them. exh. #53 NYC Insertion': Self and Other organized by Salah Hassan April 18 - May 20, 2000 Features a group of artists living and practicing between two or more cultures and whose works investigate the intersections of autobiography, self-represenation and the other. exh. #52 NYC block organized by Ute Meta Bauer March 15 - April 15, 2000 block is a project developed through a seminar and workshop for 19 young European artists and architects participating in the theory program of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The participants have developed two kinds of constructions: individual projections of New York City and a prefabricated structural system. block brings both from Austria to New York and joins them together at Apex Art. exh. #51 NYC Chispa organized by Luis Jimenez February 9 - March 11, 2000 Like a chispa, a spark in Spanish, that ignites a fire, these three Latino artists have profoundly changed the way their culture and art is seen in their communities and beyond. exh. #50 NYC Double Space organized by A.S. Bessa January 6 - February 5, 2000 In writing, the expression 'double space' is used to define the maximum standard distance between two lines in a text. Poetically, though, the term is rich in ambiguities due to the intrinsic power of the words 'double' and 'space.' Double Space explores the ideas related to space in text, the architectural properties of writing, and the concept of text as a construction. exh. #49 NYC Cancelled organized by Dorothy Krasowska, David Robbins, Ingrid Schaffner, Carolee Thea November 18 - December 18, 1999 When a show is cancelled last minute, two galleries lend two works of their choice and four writers respond to the fortuitous juxtaposition. exh. #48 NYC Building Histories organized by Maureen Connor October 14 - November 13, 1999 The history of 291 Church Street, the building that houses apexart, is both typical of Tribeca loft buildings and unique in its historical usage by artists. This show presents work that addresses and reflects this history. exh. #47 NYC The Production of Production organized by Tim Griffin & Bennett Simpson September 9 - October 9, 1999 A diverse selection of works articulates the vast networks that impel production, and the interactions that affect what is produced. Ultimately the constant collision and convergence of productive contexts affects what art is and what it can be. exh. #46 NYC 444 organized by Spencer Brownstone, Susan Harris, Carol Greene, Christian Haye July 7 - July 31, 1999 444: a plan by which four individuals (often dealers but not always) who regularly see new work are asked to recommend an 'unaffiliated' artist for a four-day exhibition exh. #45 NYC Arrested Ambition organized by Gregory Williams May 26 - June 26, 1999 During the last 30 years, a certain interest, in questions of failure and impossibility,divergent from the various Modernist explorations of such, has emerged on the art scene. The artists in Arrested Ambition willingly take on such questions and explore very personal and small-scale yet resonant examples of this anxiety. exh. #44 NYC Street Theater organized by Hou Hanru & Evelyne Jouanno April 22 - May 22, 1999 Exhibits the innovative work of Beijing based architect Yung Ho Chang created in response to the massive urban expansion in contemporary China. Also presents an installation that allows viewers to more directly experience the vision of his projects abroad and the ideals behind them. exh. #43 NYC Mixology organized by Dave Hickey March 18 - April 17, 1999 When faced with the dilemmas of curating, a critic selects an artist whose work he is drawn to but does not understand. She in turn presents hybrid objects that the curator believes embody the high stakes bartending (the science of mixology) of artmaking. exh. #42 NYC Actual Size organized by Nancy Princenthal February 11 - March 13, 1999 The title refers to the relativity and instability of scale and the linear, physical systems by which we gauge time, distance, space. Five artists engage this woozy immeasurability and home in on the soft spots between fact and memory, linearity and wishful thinking. exh. #41 NYC Avoiding Objects organized by Alice Smits January 8 - February 6, 1999 We are not avoiding the objects in this show; instead, they are avoiding the way we only see them as a mean to a human end. They refuse to be incorporated in our rational systems of classification and want to be seen, caressed and listened to. exh. #40 NYC Harriet Craig organized by David Rimanelli November 19 - December 19, 1998 Presents work along the themes of domesticity, femininity and the underbelly of potential madness in both, derived from the 1950 Joan Crawford film, Harriet Craig, in which Crawford portrays a high-bourgeios woman who looks to have it all but ultimately collapses under the weight of her own neuroses and fears. exh. #39 NYC Readers Profile organized by Joseph Kosuth October 22 - November 14, 1998 An exhibition of projects by the germany-based journal finger, a newsletter for contemporary cultural phenomena. exh. #38 NYC Remembering Times Past organized by Irena Popiashvili September 9 - October 10, 1998 Conceived in regards to the shifting realities of life in the former USSR, the show presents eight artists whose work addresses realities from the recent past and offers various perspectives on the assimilation of time into consciousness and the expression of that process through art. exh. #37 NYC 444 organized by Casey Kaplan, Hudson, Marc Pottier, Klaus Biesenbach June 24 - July 25, 1998 444: a plan by which four individuals (often dealers but not always) who regularly see new work are asked to recommend an 'unaffiliated' artist for a four-day exhibition exh. #36 NYC Live and Let Die organized by Udo Kittelmann June 4 - June 20, 1998 Condenses three artworks into a comprehensive image, which deals with the existential subjects of being human. The only artistic medium in all three contributions being real people, it tells the story of life and death and simultaneously illustrates that these subjects are often taboo, both in art and in life. exh. #35 NYC Scattered Affinities organized by Nuria Enguita Mayo April 23 - May 23, 1998 The notion of networks or circuits extend into public and private realms, touching on themes as diverse as surveillance, music and archeology. Works by six international artists use diverse means to explore the vast yet personal set of relationships that structure behavior and knowledge. exh. #34 NYC The Sound of One Hand organized by Collier Schorr March 19 - April 18, 1998 Selections for the private collection of Collier Schorr. The curator/collector investigates the ways in which a collection defines and represents its maker. exh. #33 NYC Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s organized by Laura Cottingham February 12 - March 14, 1998 A video essay uses primary footage to document the stories, challenges and acheivements of the women who, in the 1970s, attempted to transform the underlying tenets of fine art of fine art beyond terms dictated by a sexist ideology. Includes over 100 visual artists. exh. #32 NYC Original Scale organized by John Yau January 8 - February 7, 1998 Looks to move beyond the binary terms of Abstract Expressionism and ask whether there are other structural principles for contemporary painting beyond the gesture and the grid. One proposal for an alternate structure is the human body in its contigent experiences of knowledge, memory, and perception. exh. #31 NYC Deep Skin Excursions: Early Work by Howard Fried organized by Dennis Oppenheim November 20 - January 3, 1998 Oppenheim presents the work of a peer in the conceptual art movement, Howard Fried. Using film, installation, and performance, the work delves without hesitation into the deepest and darkest problems of art-making, constantly questioning and prodding the territory in which he worked. exh. #30 NYC Pagan' Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art organized by Janet Kraynak October 16 - November 15, 1997 After modernism's disavowal of the referential and the narrative, contemporary art sees the return of narrative tropes and of the artist as raconteur. The works in the show illustrate some of the mulitude of ways in which artists are reinterpreting and restructuring literary and illusionistic devices. exh. #29 NYC Dazzle Gradually organized by Gregory Volk September 11 - November 11, 1997 Borrowing the title phrase from Emily Dickinson, the exhibition presents work that blurs medium boundaries, the result of which is an understated and effortless ability to slowly reveal different dimensions existing within the pieces - metaphor, materiality, humor. exh. #28 NYC 444 organized by Paul Ha, Stefano Basilico, Jessica Fredericks/Andrew Freiser, Lisa Spellman July 6 - August 2, 1997 444: a plan by which four individuals (often dealers but not always) who regularly see new work are asked to recommend an 'unaffiliated' artist for a four-day exhibition exh. #27 NYC Colorflex organized by Raphael Rubinstein May 29 - June 28, 1997 At the height of an art of 'identity politics,' the show brings together eight abstract painters who, carrying on the precedent of the likes of Beckmann, de Kooning, Bonnard and Joan Mitchell, revel in color and form for its phenomological, emotional and formal reverberations. exh. #26 NYC Letter and Event organized by Maria Lind April 24 - May 24, 1997 A group of works from around the world deal with the consequences of poststructuralism, identity politics and globalization on personal, 'real' levels. They offer no resolution to the ideas and experiences they present, but only distill and observe the inconclusivity of experience. http://www.apexart.org/images/lind/LetterEventPR.pdf exh. #25 NYC Ornament and Landscape: On the Nature of Artifice organized by Tom Huhn March 20 - April 19, 1997 Explores the relationship between the representative space of the landscape image and the introspective, self-referential space of the ornamental image. Suggests a continuity between the two but emphasizes the pleasure impulse behind the ornament. exh. #24 NYC SLAD organized by Mary Jones and Janice Krasnow February 13 - March 15, 1997 Emphasizes the engagement of the Unconscious, its linguistic structure and its occasional slips into conscious behavior as a darkly comic taskmaster of our daily actions. We are asked to consider the possibility of 'the accident' as a metaphor for art - that odd state of mind which allows accidents to happen and have meaning. exh. #23 NYC Color Detour organized by Faye Hirsch January 9 - February 8, 1997 Forced into a detour by the impossibility of obtaining an Andy Warhol 'Do-It-Yourself,' the curator brings together ten works that explore systems of image translation and the convergence of systems of information. The absent Warhol hovers among the works as the theoretical linchpin of the exhibition. exh. #22 NYC Try a Little Tenderness organized by Joe Fyfe November 26 - January 4, 1997 Art that attempts to immobilize the power of intimidating graphics and packaging of mass consumer culture. The critique is made though by a seeming degree of tenderness; the objects are softened, humbled, and sentimentalized. exh. #21 NYC Ceremonial organized by Barry Schwabsky November 24 - November 23, 1996 Ceremonial presents eight works of art that together explore how the experience of color manifests itself through such diverse media as painting and video, writing and photography, or as a series of dialogues between iconicity and dispersion, body and clothing, sex and the sacred. exh. #20 NYC Method and Multiplicity organized by Richmond Burton September 12 - November 19, 1996 Six painters who have developed highly individualized and specific process-based methods of painting. They converge in this show to illustrate the many ways in which the medium of painting can be led. exh. #19 NYC 444 organized by Xavier LaBoulbenne, John Weber, Paul Morris/Tom Healy, Steven Rand June 19 - July 20, 1996 444: a plan by which four individuals (often dealers but not always) who regularly see new work are asked to recommend an 'unaffiliated' artist for a four-day exhibition exh. #18 NYC Cathode Ray Clinic #1 organized by Joshua Decter May 16 - June 16, 1996 Constructs a theoretical therapeutic context where TV acts as a prescribed remedy for both media withdrawl and oversaturation. CRC #1 builds an experience that gives us what we want from TV while evoking how it is working on our desires and our abilities to take in information. exh. #17 NYC Screaming Heads, Grating Bodies organized by Donald Kuspit April 11 - May 11, 1996 Two anti-idealists produce perverse art-historical constructions that desublimate and reinvigorate the portrait and the female nude. However harsh the works are on first glance, Condo and Hartman work from humanist ideals. exh. #16 NYC Alice's Looking Glass: A Glimpse at the Non-Linear organized by Mary Beyt March 7 - April 6, 1996 Photography, sculpture and painting forgo the linear and the sequential for a fluidity of time, space and logic. Instead of being completely without order, the unifying factor among the seven artists is the simple license and will to break traditional dimensional boundaries and the resulting liberation of the work and the viewer. exh. #15 NYC The Rational Twist organized by Carlos Basualdo February 1 - March 2, 1996 Coming out of the historically-ignored South American movement of Concretism, contemporary Argentine art stakes out territory of material and affective intensity over a background of fluctuating ideologies. Despite an acute awareness of the problems of modernism, there remains an utopian will to continue an art of thought and carry the practice into the international context. exh. #14 NYC All Dressed Up organized by Steven Rand December 21 - January 27, 1996 Addresses the idea that history has been discredited by a young generation and its artists in favor of a self-referential process of validation. Works hint towards new parameters of globalism wtihin which the self and its choices can be defined and articulated. exh. #13 NYC Madeleines: Themes from Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' in Recent Art organized by Amanda Trager November 15 - December 16, 1995 In the tradition of Proust, these artists prioritize empircal experience, personal memory and imagination over theory and formal concerns. The work highlights a new sense of subjectivity emerging in the mid-90s and the use of this sensitivity to bridge the gap between the outside world and the personal psyche. exh. #12 NYC Crossing Borders: THE MYST organized by Rainer Crone and Petrus Schaesberg November 12 - November 11, 1995 Exhibits work produced by four artists who blur the boundaries between mediums, between figuration and abstraction, and between different anthropological contexts. exh. #11 NYC Dutch Wives, Phone Sex and Other Cheap Thrills organized by Jessica Fredericks and Andrew Freiser September 6 - October 7, 1995 Presents work that searches for the 'erotic other,' eroticism veiled in banalities. Formally the work is harsh and impenetrable with hard lines and unmodeled color, invoking a protected but forceful sensuality. exh. #10 NYC Three for Three organized by Bill Arning, Steven Rand, Jay Gorney July 6 - July 25, 1995 Three weeks three different artists. exh. #9 NYC Three Artists organized by Mary Heilmann June 1 - July 1, 1995 Group exhibition. exh. #8 NYC New York University Faculty - two parts organized by Leonard Lehrer April 20 - May 27, 1995 A presentation of the work of over 60 NYU studio art faculty. The diversity of the artists results in a broad range of conceptions of the art object, but the cohesion of the group and of the work illustrates a profound and ever-developing interest in what constitutes visual art. April 20 - May 6, 1995 and May 11 - May 27, 1995 exh. #7 NYC The Uninvited organized by Stephen Westfall March 11 - April 15, 1995 Three artists whose work shares no immediate formal concerns but each invokes an 'uninvited' presence, residual of a past event, or anticipating a future happening. It is this knowing and uninvited presence that merges the quotidien and the poetic. exh. #6 NYC Transformations organized by Sam Hunter January 28 - March 4, 1995 exh. #5 NYC Athena & Arachne organized by Casey Kaplan December 3 - January 21, 1995 exh. #4 NYC Ethereal Materialism organized by Susan Harris October 15 - November 26, 1994 exh. #3 NYC Summershow organized by Steven Rand June 24 - July 30, 1994 exh. #2 NYC Landscape...Ideas organized by Michael Toledo May 6 - June 18, 1994 exh. #1

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