Just Bring Your Clothes
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a new performance/installation work by olek
www.agataolek.com
crochetedolek@gmail.com
October 28 - November 13, 2009
chashama Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
a new performance/installation work by olek
www.agataolek.com
crochetedolek@gmail.com
October 28 - November 13, 2009
Gallery will be open on the following dates from 3pm-8pm:
October 28th - 30th | November 1st - 4th | November 9th - 13th
chashama Times Square Art Space
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
You are invited to participate in this performance/installation.
Actions:
To enter gallery from Oct 28th thru November 9th, you must bring a donation of clothes, fabric, sheets, or small objects to be utilized in the piece.
Donated materials will be recycled through artistic transformation into new objects.
Certified Donors will be able to purchase objects from the installation beginning November 2nd at a price of $99 each.
Non-Donors will be allowed access to the gallery beginning November 10th and will be able to purchase objects at a price of $199 each.
Please, join me there as the piece needs you and your clothes!
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness. She received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
