Video by Nilay Lawson and Breck Brunsen
Edited by Sarah Yochim
Super/Prime is pleased to announce our participation in Fountain Miami 2009. We are excited to build off of our recent show at 717 Prospect Place as we continue to expand on our ideas and our mission.
Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries overlooked by the larger, corporate-sponsored art fairs. The name “Fountain” is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial sculpture which shook up the art world when it was rejected by the Society of Artists’ exhibition in 1917. Similarly, in defiant contrast with The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the numerous other international art fairs, Fountain has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its experimental slant favoring large, open and ambitious installation spaces. In form and spirit, the artwork exhibited at Fountain reflects the avant-garde attitude of the Dada art movement, while attracting the attention of the international clientele and top collectors who attend the more traditional fairs.
Fountain Miami will open to the public on Thursday 3 December at 11am and run until Sunday 6 December at 7pm.
Fountain Miami 2009
Barter is a non-monetary silent auction organized by Blair Murphy as part of Washington Project for the Arts’ Coup d’Espace series. You can bid on the goods and services by offering a good or service in exchange. The auction will close at midnight on July 21 and the participants who have put items up for auction will have until July 23 to choose which bid they wish to accept. Exchanged items and certificates representing exchanged services will be installed at the WPA office for the closing reception on July 30.
PART AND PARCEL
OPENING: DECEMBER 10, 8-11 PM
Work by Frank Adams, Keli Anaya, Deborah Anzinger, Chris Chen, Rachel England, Jessica Ford, Elizabeth Graeber, Becca Kallem, Chandi Kelley, Regan Kireilis-Helms, Stephanie Kwak, Jon Lee, Dana Maier, and Kristoffer Tripplaar
The Fridge, 516 8th Street SE, REAR ALLEY
The expression “part and parcel” is used to reference something that must be done or accepted as a part of something else. Without the venue to sell works on a small scale, many artists wouldn’t have the means to create some of their more substantial works. Part and Parcel is an opportunity to showcase large scale works by Project Dispatch artists while emphasizing the importance of the subscription. We will be displaying one piece next to each large work that will be wrapped in brown paper to represent the subscription. Patrons will be able to purchase the larger work or take a risk on the smaller, wrapped piece by the same artist. These smaller works will be the beginnings of subscriptions, but will remain unopened until after they are purchased. By showing these seen and unseen works alongside each other, we want to that the project is an integral part of the practice for the artists involved.
Current Exhibition:
February 3 – March 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6pm-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 11, 2pm-3pm
Past Exhibitions:
