ONE NIGHT STAND : ANONYMOUS ART SHOW
What would do if you could do anything you wanted and knew you could get away with it?
20 artists from New York, London, and Rome, working in a variety of media were posed this same question. They were asked to make works in which they banished self-censorship and were encouraged to make art that provokes, annoys, and insights outrage. By wearing the mask of anonymity they could put any feelings of consequence aside. The artists, in turn, made works that confronted racism, homophobia, unpatriotic acts, and the sexually taboo.
Saturday April 11, 2009 at
Envoy Enterprises for this one night show.
Gallery open between 12pm - 8pm
Opening reception 6pm - 8pm
with performance by
Tough Slutting at 8 pm at Home Sweet Home (directly bellow the gallery)
After party and continued fun at HOME SWEET HOME until 4 am
envoy enterprises
131 Chrystie Street, ground floor
New York, NY 10002
212.226.4555
http://www.envoyenterprises.com
Link:
http://envoy.typepad.com
Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. His artwork primarily questions systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti and the Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, http://www.ifac-arts.org, an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators.
His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net.
Wells is currently a curator at large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs http://www.scope-art.com. In January 2006, he co-founded the video art community research portal and traveling installation [PAM] http://PerpetualArtMachine.com, with the artists Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller.
Wells has been participating on the Rhizome since 1998.
Michael Connor