June 28 – July 28, 2013
17 Artists from 13 countries around the world
America has always been an amalgamation of immigrants who arrived here either yearning for a new life or thrust by circumstance into providence. For hundreds of years immigrants from every reach of the globe have passed through New York harbor to settle into new lives far from home. From wherever it is in the world they come, it is the shared experience of braving a new world together that has strengthened foreign-born New Yorkers to carry on together under the weight of constant irreversible change.
Along these generations have come the standard bearers of culture. These are the artists and musicians and poets from every continent putting into words and images their personal re-conceptualizations of what is home and what is foreign, what is progress and what is tradition. It is though their work that the grand and dynamic America experiment becomes illuminated.
So, what does the voice of this generation have to say for itself? What is it about the contemporary American experience that captures the imagination of today’s foreign-born and first generation artists? This summer Republic Worldwide picks up the flag in search of answers through the work of seventeen contemporary artists from around the globe.
Featured artists include Orlando Arocena, Raul Ayala, Chong Gon Byun, Liset Castillo, Alexis Duque, Alessandra Exposito, Kira Nam Greene (Courtesy of Accola Griefen Gallery), Jung S. Kim, Fay Ku, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (Courtesy of Sepia Eye Gallery), Esperanza Mayobre, Levan Mindiashvili, Sirikul Pattachote, Shahpour M. Pouyan, Francesco Simeti, Saya Woolfalk and Siebren Versteeg.
Curated by Keith Schweitzer and Jason Patrick Voegele, “For Which It Stands” is open to the public from June 28 through July 28 at The Lodge Gallery, 131 Christie Street, NYC. For more information please call 917. 478. 7513 or visit thelodgegallery.com.
http://nycartscene.info/post/54110131026/for-which-it-stands-the-lodge-gallery-nyc
http://quietlunch.com/for-which-it-stands/
http://blog.artsinbushwick.org/post/55011741581/for-which-it-stands-shows-range-of-international
