Michelle Grabner (Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who also teaches at Yale, is an artist herself, and oversees two alternative art spaces in the Midwest) noted that her section of the 2014 Whitney Biennial «features artists who have come to the fore as figures of influence, both inside and outside the geographic and
commercial centers of the art world.
The United States arrived as
the commercial center of the art world while countless other cultures emerged on an increasingly globalized stage.
Not exact matches
All works commissioned and coproduced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary
Art With the support
of Schering Stiftung Coproducers De Hallen Haarlem, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kunsthalle Aarhus Additional support from Musée d'
art moderne de la Ville de Paris; 20th Biennale
of Sydney; Barbara Seiler, Zurich; Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna; Robert D. Bielecki Foundation; KIASMA Helsinki; FACT Liverpool, Metal, and Canvas, cocommissioners
of Commercials, 2015 In - kind support from Atomium, Brussels; BruBotics — The Brussels Human Robotic Research
Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels; Andrew Martin and Contemporary Hotels, Joadja; Cow Prod, Paris; iw, Kontich; Scenic
World, Blue Mountains; YEEZY; silentdisco.de, silentdiscotheque.com
«We all chase our tails from one
art fair to another, but the heart
of the matter is that New York, and America, are the absolute
center of the
commercial art world,» Mr. McCaffrey said.
Referencing past, genre - bending artists such as Keith Haring and Sterling Ruby,
art world renegades who successfully designed and applied their own aesthetic to
commercial spaces, fashion boutiques, and public urban
centers — blurring the line between private and public, between
art and commodity — San Pablo has implemented his own distinct style to re-imagine the gallery space as an installation and retail platform which uniquely showcases the collaborative and multi-dimensional nature
of Vacancy Projects.