“Untitled” by Nao Bustamante

LACE is pleased to present I Feel Different, a multi-media group exhibition organized by guest curator Jennifer Doyle. Participating artists include: Nao Bustamante, Monica Duncan and Lara Odell, James Luna, Lezley Saar, Susan Silton, David Wojnarowicz, and Niña Yhared (1814). This provocative project explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. Most of the time, we attend museums and galleries with our social armor up, approaching art with sophistication, irony, and even a degree of cynicism.

This exhibit gathers together artists working in the nusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as real in art (and what happens when they do), what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist really change how we feel (and if this is what we want from them). The show acknowledges that contemporary art is powerfully defined by the relationship between art and the spectator, and asserts that emotion plays a major part in this story.

I Feel Different opens with an evening of moody performances a reading by Raquel Gutierrez (the text of which is available on LACE’s website), and live performances by resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna.

ALSO ON VIEW
- Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project, series of video installations depicting reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movement of the Vietnam era. Opening 20 October 2008, 8PM

- Wall-works by Ami Tallman and Jason Yates in the LACE storefront gallery through 24 January 2010.

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