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A PAINT SLAM!
RUHE vs. SHIFREEN

Internationally renowned artist Barnaby Ruhe
will challenge NYC artist Frank Shifreen
on site!
with paint and canvas!
to the death!

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ANTHONY REACH

 April 26 - May 10

TRANSLATIONS:

Art, Immigration & Identity

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LINDA PHELPS

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STUDIO VIEW:

a photo project by Andrew Maydoney

April 5 - April 26

ARTISTIC MEDIUMS:

Whatever our collective destiny, artists working with technology may serve a unique role as contemporary mediums. Our works, individual and unique, record for posterity the experience of living in a time marked by an uncertainty of our own making. We explore, take note and occasionally guide, pushing the limits of our world and repurposing the tools of objective inquiry in the hopes of finding more subjective truths. We've met the ghost in the machine, and found it's us.

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RACHEL HUNT

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DIETMAR KRUMREY

Dietmar Krumrey’s creative practice is driven by a radically skeptical relationship to language. He is not simply skeptical of certain concepts, discourses, or perspectives, but of the very means whereby we articulate all of our certainties and doubts, about ourselves and about our world.

Stemming from this ambivalent fascination with language, his work deals with different aspects of communication, from the simple, personal articulation of ideas and beliefs through action and utterance, to the more complex communal communication expressed through media and technology.

Krumrey is also interested in the communication of the social, as in the ways we are conditioned by the laws, traditions and behavioral norms of state and cultural institutions. He is especially interested in the communication of power as it is exercised both symbolically and physically, from the soft power of a government's theatrical authority, information controls and economic policies, to the hard power of its policing, punishment, and legitimate violence.

In all, Krumrey’s work seeks to create a dialogue where the questions posed must be posed as objects and the answers derived must be proven not in words, but by action.

So, for one hour on Saturday night April 5^th at the Museum of New Art (8 to 9pm), Krumrey will perform live for the first time ever his performance of Loud and Clear: an hour long performance piece where, dressed in a shirt, tie and expensive shoes, Dietmar Krumrey spins in circles while shouting “Attention!” into a large black megaphone as a clock ticks off the seconds in the background. It is a repetitive action that at once appears totally absurd, but if seen as a metaphor - of communication in all its dizzying ceaselessness.

March 8 - April 11

SIDE-BY-SIDE

February 22 - March 22

CHANGING CITIES: Detroit

in collaboration with Chicago's ThreeWalls

January 19 - February 22