MFAD thesis student Maja Cule (MFAD ’10) and Dora Budor are opening in an exhibition tonight:
BLACK & WHITE & READ ALL OVER
Q: What’s black and white and read all over?
A: A newspaper…
At the NP Contemporary Art Center
31 Chrystie Street (btwn. Delancey and Broome).
14 December at 7 PM

Nostalgia isn’t exactly what it used to be, and thinking back to one’s youth entails a relationship with pop cultural detritus as well as anachronistic forms and media. This is why a common riddle of the current 20-something’s youth has decreased currency: the recent decrease in circulation of newspapers moves it to near meaninglessness. However, these decreases do not lessen the currency of circulation itself and ideas move more widely and freely than ever carried by increasingly im-mediate media.

But, as art comprises the set of a society’s articulations and representations, nostalgia (for forms and ideas of its relatively recent history) also haunts the art world through the spectres of Modernism and gestalt experience as well as a basic set of aesthetic pleasures.
In the spirit of these observations, BLACK & WHITE & READ ALL OVER has been organized with attention to the occasional monochromatic severity, simplicity and elegance of the avant garde and the dilletant sensibility of colors that hang well over one’s couch: divided between restrained black and white and eye-catching colors. Works in the show also address the dispersal of ideas and forms over an ever-expanded field.

Featuring work by Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo, Ethan Cook, Jarvis Earnshaw, Joshua Caleb Weibley, Maja Cule’ + Dora Budor, Matthew Craven, Ruth Gruca, Slava Balasanov, Victor Payares, Winston Chmielinski, Wesley Stokes, and Young Joon Kwak.