Open Ground at Fountain Miami
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a. Byron King, PFC 666666, pen on paper, 6 x 8 in, 2007
b. Catherine Tafur, I love you too, Baby, oil on canvas, 36 x 44 in, 2006
c. Brynna Tucker, Red, Orange, Yellow and Blue, 8 x 10 in, photograph, 2008
Open Ground is pleased to announce its inaugural appearance at the Fountain Art Fair in Miami, Florida, with work from the following member artists:
Oscar Alzate, Kim Babcock, Emily Bicht, Cristina Botero, Dianne Bowen, Robyn Desposito, Bethany Harris, Nikki Johnson, Byron King, Patrick May, Brandon Neubauer, John Paul Osorio, Michael Rippens, Lolo Rodriguez, Radek Szczesny, Catherine Tafur, Christa Toole, Brynna Tucker, Jennifer Walty, Leah Wilemon, Andrea Williams
Open Ground’s appearance at the Fountain Art Fair is a crucial evolution of our mission to make space for creative exchange. Art will always be produced by artists who live in a particular place, but now more than anytime in the past, art is consumed and interpreted by a global audience. When artists bring the global audience home to their communities, the result is almost inevitably displacement and gentrification. The challenge facing supporters of the arts is to locate the exchange between the artistic community and the global art audience on a level playing field, and Open Ground believes that Fountain Miami is the place. We invite you to join us!
Location:
Fountain Miami 2008
2505 North Miami Ave Miami FL 33127
Dates:
December 3–7, 2008; 11 am–7 pm
VIP/Press brunch: Wed. Dec. 3, from 10 am to Noon, and Thurs. Dec. 4, from 9 am to Noon
Reception for the artists: Friday, December 5; 7pm–midnight
Wynwood Arts Tour: Saturday, December 6; 7pm–10pm
Cost:
Suggested donation of $5 at the door (weekend)
Our booth at the Fountain Art Fair will include a rotating exhibition of artwork, so please visit us often.
ABOUT OPEN GROUND
Open Ground is a social space and an open network, constituted by artists, but open to all. Open Ground has emerged from an eight-year experiment with a revolving roster of multidisciplinary artists who support and contextualize each other’s creative work through exhibitions, performances and studio critiques.
The collective was originally housed in a gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where artists practiced an open-source, consensus-based curatorial process. The space became a breeding ground for community building, a place to support local politics, and a headquarters for radical ideas, experimental work and progressive dialogue. Open Ground has nurtured a wide range of artistic styles, and brought hundreds of visitors into a conversation about art and community. We’ve articulated values of openness, generosity, experimentation and DIY-volunteerism that are essential to the progressive spirit of art.
Though early in each of their careers, the participating artists have leveraged the support of Open Ground to develop their voice, creating artwork that is unexpectedly inclusive and beautifully aware of our environment. Our dialog is based on profound respect for each other’s cultural and artistic differences, moving beyond the identity politics of the 1990’s to embody El Nuevo Estilo. Literally a former unisex salon used for a recent exhibition, El Nuevo Estilo is also the territory we claim as artists. Open Ground sees itself in the tradition of a Brooklyn salon: a community center where creativity is practiced in the service of personal and cultural expression. The art manifested, as shown at the Fountain Art Fair, joins the contemporary art dialog with a clarion voice.
For more information, please contact:
Patrick May
347-232-5208
contact AT open-ground.org
