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WHERE DO WE MIGRATE TO?
Curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project and organized with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore, Where Do We Migrate To? explores diverging ways in which migration, experiences of displacement and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. Calling for an increasingly complex understanding of the human condition, the exhibition demonstrates ways in which the ongoing circulation of people across geopolitical, demographic, and cultural contexts is addressed and questioned through a wide selection of thought-provoking works of art. Where Do We Migrate To? features the work of nineteen…
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REVISITING HISTORIES: BIGGERS, GEYER/ORTIZ
Revisiting Histories conceptualizes history as a multifaceted field of meaning and narrative, intentionally constructed and maintained by powerful social and political structures. Taking the distinct artistic practices of Sanford Biggers, Andrea Geyer, and Simon J. Ortiz as a starting point, the exhibition emphasizes possible ways in which prevailing historical scripts can be modified by critical artistic voices. Discarding history as an accumulation of master-narratives, it re-imagines multiple histories excluded from official discourse. Complete documentation here. Revisiting Histories is curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project. The exhibition took place, in collaboration with the Lambent Foundation, October, 2009 – January,…
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RES PUBLICA DES USONIA: SPACE AS ESSAY
This exhibition documents two years of community and public art projects produced by the Floating Lab Collective, many of which were part of Provisions’ Brushfire initiative. Floating Lab partnered with a Casa de Maryland, Tenants and Workers United, and Life Pieces to Masterpieces to determine key community issues and coordinate community actions. It was on display from September, 2009 – October, 2009.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: FACING THE FUTURE
Presented by Provisions Library, Close Encounters: Facing the Future explores the national art initiative, focusing on social activist art. Artists include the Beehive Collective, Mel Chin, Mildred Howard, Yoko Ono, and Jon Winet. It was on display from June 25, 2009 – August 28, 2009.
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THE BIG PICTURE: PROVISIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
The Big Picture, presented by Provisions Library, displays the work of artists Barnstormers, Nina Berman, Iona Rozeal Brown, Sue Coe, Brett Cook, Carmen Lomas Garza, Shilpa Gupta, Virginia Harris, Emily Jacir, Yun-Fei Ji, Rajkamal Kahlon, Shalini Kantayya, Lisa Kahlon, Hung Liu, Judith Lowry, Susan Meiselas, Shirin Neshat, Pat Owoc, Meridel Rubenstein, Betye Saar, Roger Shimomura, Taryn Simon, Roxanne Swentzell, and Kehinde Wiley. The exhibition occurred February 21, 2007 – May 18, 2007
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OTHER THAN ART
Other than Art features the work of collaborators Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Ivan Navarro, and Elissa Levy. Artworks by the renowned Puerto Rican team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla include a series of photographs and a video installation documenting their protest performances on the island of Vieques, for sixty years a site used by US military and NATO to practice total warfare, including extensive bomb testing. The photographic series, entitled Land Mark (foot prints), documents the practice of protestors trespassing on the military base in order to disrupt testing exercises. For these protestors, Allora and Calzadilla designed special soles…
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THE INNOCENTS: HEADSHOTS
This compelling exhibition presents photographic portraits of 45 wrongfully convicted individuals who were exonerated through DNA evidence. While police “mugshots” and photo arrays have routinely been used to condemn the guilty, artist Taryn Simon reframes this photographic convention and turns the camera around to document these innocent victims of mistaken identity and perverted justice, using the medium of photography to humanize the victims. The collection powerfully exposes the fault-lines of a deeply flawed and unreliable criminal judicial system. The Innocents: Headshots brings together two disparate themes in criminal justice. On the one hand, there is the issue of science and forensic identity…
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BODY LANGUAGES
If the body is itself a complex structure, the meanings we project onto it are doubly complex. Our contemporary reading of the body, particularly the challenging issues of gender difference and identity, offer a fascinating opportunity for artists to explore such questions and share their insights with the public. Through the powerful photographic works of Mary Coble and Robert Flynt, viewers may reflect on several related aspects of the power of language: its power to make things legible, and thus legitimate, as well as its power to inflict harm and its potential to be misread. Both Coble and Flynt achieve…
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DEE DEE DOES UTOPIA
Deborah Lawrence, Beachtopia, Acrylic, collage, and varnish on rag paper, 37×31 inches, 2005. Deborah Lawrence’s beguiling collage-paintings mix magic and politics, whimsy and anger, a sense of indignation as well as the absurd. In her hands, these intricate dreamscapes, recycled from discarded piles of pop imagery and the art canon, transform into powerful critiques of authority, oppression and social injustice. New worlds are created out of old ones. They are also celebrations of important progressive leaders and milestones in the history of protest. What makes propaganda so dangerous is its emphatic righteousness. And while Dee Dee is clearly a feisty…
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