Model Home
Model Home presents the interdisciplinary work of eight artists from the tART collective, a New York-based network of women committed to exploring the intersections of public engagement, education and activism through visual art. In this exhibition, Suzanne Broughel, Anna Lise Jensen, Elaine Kaufmann, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Carrie Rubinstein, Asya Reznikov and Yasmin Spiro foreground a heightened awareness of the role of objects in discussing cultural value, fetishization and identity.
Through a broad survey of the domestic signifiers which simultaneously enable and oppress—mops, feather dusters, ovens, rubber gloves, kitchenware, televisions and things-to-do-lists—this exhibition critiques the notion that there is a “model home” or “archetypal lifestyle” to which universal value can be ascribed and questions the governing political, lingual and cultural forces that write this utopian yet heavily gendered vision into being.
Model Home resituates household objects and actions outside of the diverse spaces we inhabit to highlight the psychological distance between public and private and assert that meaning is derived from context. As global citizens whose relations to said objects have undoubtedly been effected by travel, tourism and routes of migration, these eight artists discuss individual agency—through what could be described as a Fluxist, visual rhetoric—as it relates to desire, self and otherness.
MODEL HOME
ON VIEW JULY 1 – AUGUST 31, 2010
RECEPTION | JULY 28 | 5:30 – 8:30
SUZANNE BROUGHEL | ANNA LISE JENSEN | ELAINE KAUFMANN | JODIE LYN-KEE-CHOW
SANDRA MACK-VALENCIA | CARRIE RUBINSTEIN | ASYA REZNIKOV | YASMIN SPIRO
CURATOR | NICO WHEADON
ROGER SMITH HOTEL GALLERY, 16TH FLOOR
501 LEXINGTON AVENUE | NEW YORK | 10017
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
[rogersmithlife.com]
[nicowheadon.com]
[tartnyc.org]
Through a broad survey of the domestic signifiers which simultaneously enable and oppress—mops, feather dusters, ovens, rubber gloves, kitchenware, televisions and things-to-do-lists—this exhibition critiques the notion that there is a “model home” or “archetypal lifestyle” to which universal value can be ascribed and questions the governing political, lingual and cultural forces that write this utopian yet heavily gendered vision into being.
Model Home resituates household objects and actions outside of the diverse spaces we inhabit to highlight the psychological distance between public and private and assert that meaning is derived from context. As global citizens whose relations to said objects have undoubtedly been effected by travel, tourism and routes of migration, these eight artists discuss individual agency—through what could be described as a Fluxist, visual rhetoric—as it relates to desire, self and otherness.
MODEL HOME
ON VIEW JULY 1 – AUGUST 31, 2010
RECEPTION | JULY 28 | 5:30 – 8:30
SUZANNE BROUGHEL | ANNA LISE JENSEN | ELAINE KAUFMANN | JODIE LYN-KEE-CHOW
SANDRA MACK-VALENCIA | CARRIE RUBINSTEIN | ASYA REZNIKOV | YASMIN SPIRO
CURATOR | NICO WHEADON
ROGER SMITH HOTEL GALLERY, 16TH FLOOR
501 LEXINGTON AVENUE | NEW YORK | 10017
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
[rogersmithlife.com]
[nicowheadon.com]
[tartnyc.org]
