BIO
Mission:
Founded in 1982, Exit Art is an interdisciplinary cultural center that presents innovative exhibitions, films and performances that reflect a commitment to contemporary issues and ideas. We support emerging, under-recognized, mid-career and international artists, emphasizing new and experimental forms of expression. We are interested in art that explores environmental, political and cultural issues as a means of initiating or instigating social change. The diversity of Exit Art’s programs reflect the multiplicity of our audience, which includes artists, activists, scholars, scientists, students, cultural critics, educators, collectors, and the New York community at large.

History:
During our first decade, Exit Art presented artists whose work challenged notions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and equality. We mounted a series of mid-career retrospectives which helped to bring wider public attention and critical acclaim to artists who are now firmly established, including Jimmie Durham, Willie Birch, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Tehching Hsieh, Martin Wong, Adrian Piper, David Wojnarowicz and David Hammons.

In our second decade, we identified a new generation of young, emerging artists with diverse backgrounds and organized a series of exhibitions, launching the careers of artists such as Shirin Neshat, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Roxy Paine, Patty Chang, Julie Mehretu, Sue DeBeer, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Chakaia Booker. Fever (1992), the first exhibition in the series, was named one of the ten most important shows of the decade by Peter Plagens in Newsweek.

Now Exit Art is a leading voice in experimental art, producing exhibitions that illuminate the pressing issues of our time while supporting artists whose works reflect the transformations of our culture. By 2012, our 30th year, Exit Art will have organized over 200 exhibitions, events, festivals and programs featuring more than 2,500 artists.
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EVENT

Geometric Days


Dates:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 19:00 - Sat Apr 30, 2011

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

ARTISTS
Rico Gatson, Charles Koegel, Peter
Hildebrand, Geoffrey Owen Miller, Driss Ouadahi, Paul Pagk, Nathlie Provosty, and Dannielle Tegeder
 
[The Universe] is written in the
language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures." Galileo Galilei, Il
Saggiatore
, 1623

 
NEW YORK – GEOMETRIC DAYS is an exhibition of new paintings by eight artists whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures from microscopic, political, and spiritual dimensions. The show is based on the assumption that geometry, abstraction and
painting are ingrained in our interpretation of experience—geometry as measurement of space and time, abstraction as poetic expression of the visual, and painting as the manifestation of a will to communicate.
 
These artists propose that geometry isn’t necessarily abstract, but that it is actually a form of reality. Their hand-crafted, anarchic/controlled forms undercut geometric abstraction’s historical ties to utopian idealism. The works calls upon mathematics as a spiritual force (and geometry as its visual realization) that codes the experiences of nature, built environments, social constructs, and the digital
world. Artist/Curator Papo Colo states, For these artists geometry is more than a combination of lines. The nature of images are mathematical. Geometry divides borders, topography and climate. This labyrinth of numbers and forms, construct the world in a rational way but also transforms surfaces/images into
spiritual substances that take you to a space of esoteric solutions.

 
Curated by Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman with Herb Tam
 
ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues
that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 28-year-old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and artist Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its
unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.


EVENT

Geometric Days


Dates:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:00 - Sat Apr 30, 2011

Location:
New York, New York
United States of America

Geometric Days is an exhibition of new painting by 7 artists
whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures from microscopic,
political, and spiritual dimensions. The show is based on the assumption that geometry,
abstraction and painting are ingrained in our interpretation of
experience—geometry as measurement of space and time, abstraction as poetic
expression of the visual, and painting as the manifestation of a will to
communicate. These artists propose that geometry isn’t necessarily abstract,
but that it is actually a form of reality. And their hand-crafted, anarchic
forms undercut geometric abstraction’s historical ties to utopian idealism. Their
work calls upon mathematics as a spiritual force (and geometry as its visual
realization) that codes the experiences of nature, built environments, social
constructs, and the digital world.
Artists included in the exhibition:
Peter Hildebrand, Rico Gatson, Charles Koegel, Geoffrey Owen
Miller, Driss Ouadahi, Danielle Tegeder, Nathlie Provosty