Image PS 119 student Fundred Operative at work, 2008. Photo Hawley Hussey.
A New Deal
Art and Currency
Curated by Baseera Khan
January 21 – March 7, 2009
Opening reception:
Wednesday, January 21
7 to 9 pm
A New Deal, Art and Currency highlights relationships between American presidents and the economy, while observing how these relationships affect art-making. This exhibition takes its name from the social and economic reforms implemented by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s. For better or worse, each president affects the course and stability of the economy, and likewise, the changing economy affects the stability and reputation of each president.
Image Peter Simensky, Neutral Capital 500 (Conjurers), 2008. Collaged currencies, 4½ x 7¾ inches.
Artists in this exhibition play within the space of literal and imagined artifacts of currency and alternative methods of exchange to push social protest and reconsider material value. The participating artists deal with manipulating and erasing, recreating and exchanging, collecting and commemorating, all to address these intrinsic relationships. Some artists take the stance of philanthropic entrepreneurs who devise new economic systems.
Image Peter Simensky, Neutral Capital 500 (Conjurers), 2008, Collaged currencies, 4½ x 7¾ inches ea.
Image Jon Kessler, Couple (detail), 2008. Pigment, paper pulp, US currency, and magazine on handmade paper, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Dieu Donné.
A New Deal also includes Fundred Dollar Bills created by fifth grade students at PS 119, The Magnet School for Global and Ethical Studies participating in BRIC Rotunda’s in-school Education Program.
Image Anissa Mack, Failure is Impossible (detail), 2008. Susan B. Anthony dollar, silver chains, and velvet, 9½ x 10½ inches ea. Courtesy Small A Projects, New York.
Image Fundred Dollar Bill Project, Collection Centers as of December 2009
Artists
Fundred Dollar Bill Project
Peter Simensky
Fine Art Adoption Network
David Greg Harth
Mark Wagner
Jesús Jiménez
Jon Kessler
Jonathan Herder
Anais Daly
Anissa Mack
Public Programs
Rent Control: Brooklyn
February 4, 2009, 7pm
Brooklyn on the big screen hosted by the Maysles Cinema
Portraits of the Artist
February 25, 2009, 7pm
Featuring a screening of Smalltown Boys and other shorts plus discussion with filmmaker Matt Wolf.
Also on View
Human Craters, Curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens
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