Something Good

somethinggood1 Something GoodIf you’re the type who let’s the media decide how you feel about the world, you might be inclined to feel pretty neg­a­tive about the state of things. Wars are rag­ing, stocks are falling, and the envi­ron­ment has gone to shit. But those of us who turn the vol­ume down on net­work news sta­tions, while keep­ing our ears tuned to less imper­sonal sources, see some­thing dif­fer­ent hap­pen­ing. Some­thing Good. Peo­ple are wak­ing up, bridges are… being built, chal­lenges are being met and tran­scended. We are learn­ing to speak to one another in man­ners that tran­scend the lan­guage bar­rier. And one of the most pro­found, uni­ver­sal dialects that we can speak is the lan­guage of art.Not only has the tech­no­log­i­cal boom of the late 20th cen­tury changed the way we com­mu­ni­cate glob­ally, it has had a pro­found effect on the man­ner in which art is dis­played and pro­moted. 20 years ago art stu­dents were warned that hav­ing their art online would not only cheapen it, but open it to the threat of pla­gia­rism and mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion. The past few years has seen the art world, and the young artists who are con­stantly redefin­ing it, embrac­ing the dig­i­tal world. This has allowed an inter­change of ideas and styles so mon­u­men­tal that even the most stri­dently old school of cri­tiques will have to admit: The game has changed.Collaboration has become com­mon place. Mixed media has taken on new mean­ings. And the notion that a group show requires a coher­ent visual theme is an idea on the endan­gered species list. This August 14th, pre­em­i­nent con­tem­po­rary art pub­li­ca­tion Curbs & Stoops will open their inau­gural group show at the Curbs and Stoops Project Space in New York, New York. The show includes pieces in a vari­ety of media from a wide range of the world’s bright­est ris­ing tal­ents includ­ing: Aaron Nagel, Ash­ley Zelin­skie, Car­los Don­juan, Chor Boo­gie, Hec­tor Her­nan­dez, Jef­frey Pena, Korakrit, Lapiz­tola, Pep Williams, and UR New York. The show will serve as a visual man­i­fes­ta­tion of the publication’s writ­ten goal to pro­vide expo­sure to stel­lar tal­ents who have one com­mon theme to their work: It’s good. It’s really fuck­ing good.

The show is curated by Chloe Gal­lagher and Jef­frey Pena.

For Show List and Prices Click Here: Show List
For pic­tures of the show click here: Flickr

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