Brooklynite Gallery , New York
November 21 – December 19
OPENING RECEPTION: NOV. 21, 7-10 PM (NY)
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What does it mean for an artist to ‘survive’ in a tough economic climate?
Can business ever be ‘bad’ for a diligently working artist? Making an honest
living ,in a group show like NO OTHER, these artists, some legendary and
some suitably hungry, will dissolve the line between utility and luxury for
an exhibition entitled, ‘GO GET YOUR SHINEBOX’.
If you’ve spent time in a ‘third world country’, you’ve had a chance to see
kids carrying ingeniously designed work boxes, set up for shining shoes. We
find that the variety and exuberance of these objects perfectly captures our
world climate.
With the global economic downturn and the hardship it has caused blue-collar
workers throughout, we find it fitting to explore the world’s simplest way
to make a living , SHINING SHOES. We are planning an exhibition around just
that SHOESHINE BOXES.
However a ‘SHOESHINE BOX’ should not be taken in the most literal sense of
the words. These objects, our inspiration, have all been created out of
necessity- a need to earn money, or further, to survive. We push ‘the need
to survive’ beyond its literal context, commissioning our favorite
established and emerging artists to design their own, ‘SURVIVAL BOXES’.
A shoeshine box is a medium, a framework, the boundaries of which have not
been pushed, till now.
