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CUE Art Foundation: TO SHOOT A KITE - Curated by Yaelle Amir - 5 July 2014 to 2 Aug 2014 Current Exhibition |
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Julie Green, The Last Supper, 2000-ongoing
Installation view of 357 plates in the 2009 exhibition �Counter Intelligence,� California State University, Los Angeles. |
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TO SHOOT A KITE: Curated by Yaelle Amir July 5 - August 2, 2014 Opening reception: July 10, 2014, 6-8pm ARTISTS: Julie Green, Ashley Hunt, Lucky Pierre, Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (P+NAP), Sarah Ross, Dread Scott, Jackie Sumell, Tamms Year Ten, and Temporary Services. In prison-speak, a ‘kite’ represents notes or letters and ‘to shoot a kite’ means to send a message. The projects included in this exhibition represent the work of a select group of artists who have set out to relay the severe conditions of inmates and expose this broken system. In so doing, they are reframing the narrative surrounding the incarcerated—providing a platform for public expression and advocating for change both from within and out of the prison system. Each project takes on a different form – from documentation and data visualization to offering services and advocacy – that provides a link between the incarcerated and the outside world, portraying their conditions, and personalizing the abundant yet anonymous data about the prison system. Yaelle Amir is an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing and curatorial projects focus primarily on artists whose practices supplement the initiatives of existing social movements—rendering themes within those struggles in ways that both interrogate and promote these issues to a wider audience. She has curated exhibitions at Artists Space, Center for Book Arts, ISE Cultural Foundation, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Marginal Utility, and the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, among others. She has also worked at major New York art institutions, such as the International Center of Photography, Rubin Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, and recently held a Research Scholar appointment at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. www.yaelleamir.com This exhibition was the winning selection of the 2013 Open Call for Curatorial Proposals. This program provides one deserving curator the necessary time and resources to realize an innovative project, with the aim of encouraging curatorial research in tandem with exhibition planning. The proposal was unanimously selected by a jury comprised of Suzanne Kim, Director of Exhibitions, SmackMellon; artist Pablo Helguera; and artist and 2013 Guggenheim Fellow Laura Parnes. For additional information, contact Jessica Gildea, Programs Director: [email protected]. |
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