Position Matters

Curated by Saul Ostrow

July 7 – August 11, 2018
Opening: Saturday, July 7, 6-8pm

MINUS SPACE
July 7 – August 11, 2018
Opening: Saturday, July 7, 6-8pm

GALERIE RICHARD
July 13 – August 25, 2018
Opening: Saturday, July 14, 6-8pm

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Noël Dolla, Don Dudley, Michelle Grabner, Ivelisse Jiménez, Russell Maltz, Raul Mourão + Marcos Chaves/RM+MC, Richard Nonas, Gustavo Prado, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Jeanne Silverthorne, Adam Simon, Robert Yasuda

Galerie Richard and MINUS SPACE are delighted to present their first joint group exhibition entitled Position Matters curated by renowned critic, curator, and educator Saul Ostrow. Bridging the Lower East Side and Dumbo gallery neighborhoods, the concurrent exhibition will feature new and historical works by thirteen New York and international artists spanning three generations.

Bringing together artists working with a diverse array of material and conceptual concerns, Position Matters presents works where siting and location play a critical role in the viewer’s experience and comprehension of the work. Curator Saul Ostrow states, “The artists in Position Matters abandon the frame, traditional formats, the pedestal, and placing things at eye level. They align their works with the body and address the viewer somatically and cognitively. By doing so the work becomes more a presence, an intervention, an event.”

Artists on view at Galerie Richard include Noël Dolla, Michelle Grabner, Russell Maltz, Raul Mourão + Marcos Chaves/RM+MC, Gustavo Prado, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Jeanne Silverthorne, Adam Simon, and Robert Yasuda. Artists presented at MINUS SPACE include Noël Dolla, Don Dudley, Ivelisse Jiménez, Russell Maltz, Richard Nonas, and Robert Yasuda. For further information about the concurrent exhibition, participating artists, or available art works, please contact either gallery.

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Saul Ostrow is a critic and the founder of Critical Practices Inc., an organization that fosters research, teaching, and practices dedicated to social discourse and change. A renowned thinker and writer, he has four decades of experience in the contemporary art world as critic, curator, and educator. He previously was Chair of Visual Arts and Technology at The Cleveland Institute of Art and Director of the Center for Visual Art and Culture at The University of Connecticut. He is Art Editor at Large at Bomb Magazine and was the Editor of the Routledge book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture.

GALERIE RICHARD
Galerie Richard opened in 1989 in Paris and in the Lower east Side in 2015 with the motivation to discover new artists creating challenging new art and support them in a long-term journey.

www.galerierichard.com

MINUS SPACE

Founded in 2003, MINUS SPACE presents the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level.

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