Run Off
Curated by Aaron Harbour, Brandon Drew Holmes, and Jackie Im
October 7th – 30th, 2011
Opening Friday, October 7th, 7-10 pm
MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce Run Off, a group show featuring new work Marcella Faustini,
David Kasprzak, Jon Kuzmich, Hunter Longe, Reuben Lorch-Miller, and Cybele Lyle. Curated by Aaron
Harbour, Brandon Drew Holmes and Jackie Im.
The take-away, created by the artist’s own accord or at the behest of a curator as a physical object for the
viewer to take and own, carries with it some unquantifiable value and residual aura of the exhibition, artist
or space from which it was derived. Yet the validity of the take-away as a piece of art is far from a given.
Alluding to and eluding the original/unique/unobtainable works, the take-aways’ tenuous value status
is often exemplified by their tendency towards being simply produced copies as a means of cutting cost,
versus dealing with the take-aways’ specific concerns (i.e. media and multiplicity).
The artists in Run Off were invited to create and present a work that is in the form of a take-away,
produced primarily via a photocopy machine. Each work takes into account the situation of the give-away
and the media of reproduction (whether mechanical or phenomenological in nature). The exhibition will
explore the hidden potentials within these well-worn processes re-administered as integral mediums. Each
work will be produced in an edition of the artists’ choosing, perhaps presented in a form that recalls the
stacks of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and the pieces will be free for viewers to take, questioning the notion
of monetary value in artwork and by extension, intellectual capital. Run Off intends to explore alternative
notions of reproduction and distribution – here, is the reproduced individual object ever the “original”?
Does such work, indeed such an exhibition, find a new mode of existence via its diffusion?