Art is Who You Know
Art is Who You Know
by Christina Massey
www.cmasseyart.com
June 25 – July 5, 2007
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
Opening Reception: Friday June 29th, 6-8PM
FREE and open to the public.
Have you ever gotten a job, apartment, or been accepted into a program due to the recommendation of a friend? This interactive installation takes a bold move at defining Art as exactly that, simply who you know.
Attendees be prepared to get a little messy. Depending on your relationship to the artist, visitors are asked to participate in "making their mark" on either of two canvases lied out on the floor. Using footprints as their brush, guests step into paint and walk over the canvases creating paths of prints. These are divided between creation of those the Artist knows, and does not know. Though the outcome of essentially the same, the canvases created by people she knows are given preferential treatment. When finished they are put onto frames and hung on the walls, where as the ones created by those she does not know are tossed aside and ignored.
Christina's chashama 266 Flickr set
by Christina Massey
www.cmasseyart.com
June 25 – July 5, 2007
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
Opening Reception: Friday June 29th, 6-8PM
FREE and open to the public.
Have you ever gotten a job, apartment, or been accepted into a program due to the recommendation of a friend? This interactive installation takes a bold move at defining Art as exactly that, simply who you know.
Attendees be prepared to get a little messy. Depending on your relationship to the artist, visitors are asked to participate in "making their mark" on either of two canvases lied out on the floor. Using footprints as their brush, guests step into paint and walk over the canvases creating paths of prints. These are divided between creation of those the Artist knows, and does not know. Though the outcome of essentially the same, the canvases created by people she knows are given preferential treatment. When finished they are put onto frames and hung on the walls, where as the ones created by those she does not know are tossed aside and ignored.
A humorous and insightful look into the proceedings of the Gallery World, Massey draws a conclusion that networking is often more important that the artwork itself.
Christina's chashama 266 Flickr set
