ABANDONED PLOT
Curated by Andy Meerow
June 15th 2008 and Onward
Opening reception Sunday June 15th, 6-8 pm
(Opening will feature guest performances by Charlie Looker and MPA)
For "Abandoned Plot", twelve artists create work for an abandoned plot of land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The property is an undeveloped and neglected place which currently houses a tangle of weedy urban greenery, trash and debris, all of which will be left undisturbed. The exhibiton's agenda is malleable - the artists will enter an undefined area and respond to its properties (aesthetic, political, formal, mystic, etc) in whatever capacity they see fit. In other words, just as the plot of land is abandoned, so is the plot of the show. We will go to a place and we will do a thing, anything, because nothing in New York City can be empty. Time is compressed here. Things move quickly, and places like the abandoned plot become super-charged with the simultaneous energies of past, present, and future. Narratives have overlapped or have run parallel, some memorialized, some forgotten. Certainly, more will keep coming. The work in this show will collectively speak to that complexity – to the impossibility of a straight story. The artwork itself will also be abandoned. That is, the show will never officially close, it will only break down, or possibly grow. Please join us at its beginning.
The contributing artists in "Abandoned Plot" have exhibited widely, both internationally and nationally, as well as being involved in numerous other curatorial, published, and musical projects.
They are:
Darren Bader, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Leidy Churchman, Rutherford Chang, Alex Escamilla, Shane King, Rebecca Gordon, Brendan Harman, Frankie Martin, MPA, Andy Meerow, Reid Ramirez
Abandoned Plot
Key Foods Parking Lot
Intersection of Calyer and McGuiness
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Direct all inquiries to Andy Meerow ameerow@gmail.com
