2010

A Separate Peace
Co-curated by Anna Ortt and Shane McAdams
McNeill Project Space, 143 Reade Street, NYC_June 16 – August 29_Opening Reception, June 16, 6 – 9 PM__With the onset of the digital age artists are faced with an unprecedented availability of legitimate content and media for expressing themselves. In order to identify, parse and organize this information, many artists choose to work across media and disciplines, virtually without restriction, embracing new media, while others choose to confront it by returning to traditional modes of mark making and representation, finding novelty in personal mythologies and individualized narratives, creating manageable worlds that do not answer to the pressures outside it.

A Separate Peace features:
Samuel Adams
Jonathan Allen
Jeffrey Beebe
Jean Blackburn
Paul Jacobsen
Nick Lamia
Adela Leibowitz
Patte Loper
Shane McAdams
Nat Meade
Dean Monogenis
Christopher Mir
Ryan Mrozowski
Kristen Schiele
Anne Sophie Staerk
A Separate Peace features artists who create works featuring their own, unique cosmologies, interior logics and self-enclosed universes in order to maintain an integrity independent of the exterior world.