This is Roysdon's first exhibition with Higher Pictures and marks the first time she is showing her work
in a commercial gallery context after nearly a decade of exhibiting internationally.
Featuring selected works by recent graduates from DIT, IADT and NCAD 2012, this year's exhibition will provide a unique opportunity for the chosen artists to engage with a wider public
in a commercial gallery context.
Not exact matches
It was
in the fall of that year we began the Hammer Projects to give local, national, and international emerging and lesser - known artists opportunities to exhibit
in a museum
context outside of the constraints of the
commercial gallery system.
Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this
context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making
in the West, from
commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street
in New York) to websites such as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.
Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this
context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making
in the West, from
commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street
in New York) to
Using pre-fabricated
commercial materials and processes that combine mark - making and casting, Arps» installations transform the
gallery into a distinct reality not usually at home
in an art
context.
I think that's
in the work's
context, which I have explored through projects that take things outside the
commercial gallery setting.
RP: I definitely learned a lot from working
in different
contexts — both
in a
commercial gallery setting, and for a larger non-profit organization.
Gypsum is interested
in relocating the progressive and investigative art practices that have been associated with the non-profit art sector of Cairo and the Middle East to a
commercial gallery context, to redefine society's understanding of contemporary art, collecting and their relationship to the world around us.
What made the MOCA appointment unusual
in this
context was that Mr. Deitch went
in the opposite direction, giving up his eponymous
commercial gallery in order to run a nonprofit institution that needed reinventing.
Galerie Daniel Buchholz becomes a test site
in which the artist experiments with the both the physicality and psychology of this undertaking, using the
context of a
commercial gallery exhibition to mediate between the privacy of studio practice and the civic and social world.
How, if at all, does mounting it
in a
commercial gallery — essentially a selling space — versus a museum
context, change its perception or reception?
It was founded
in the
context of the 1960s, as an alternative to a
commercial gallery.
It also presents an innovative model of collaboration between an independent space and
commercial gallery, highlighting the different social and political
contexts in which the two organizations operate.