WW5: Ah, Motherland!

Gallery Sitting Schedule for WW$

March 15 Sunday noon-3pm INSTALL Doris, Vandana, Pollie
March 18th Wednesday 4pm-7:00pm  Andrea, Christina
March 19th Thursday 4pm-7:30pm DE-INSTALL Hanna

March 22nd Sunday noon-3pm INSTALL Holly, Doris
March 25th Wednesday 4-7pm  Melissa 7pm – 10pm game and salad nite. Pollie, Mary
March 26th Thursday 4-7:30pmDE-INSTALL **Economy Panel event is cancelled** Hanna, Christina

March 29th Sunday noon-3pm INSTALL Michelle , Pollie(Doris is traveling)
April 1st Wednesday 4-7pm  Melissa, Sarah
April 2nd Thursday 4-7:30pm FINAL DE-INSTALL  *** Closing Party *** Michelle, Sarah, Holly, Doris

The WW$ residency has concluded. We are installing all of the work made in the residency in an exhibition at the legendary ABC No Rio. Join us March 13th for the opening!

WW$: Money, Money, Money
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
NYC
212.254.3697

March 13 – April 2, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-7pm and Sundays 1-3pm
Opening reception: March 13th 7-10pm

Artists: Pollie Barden, Mary Button, Andrea Callard, Geraldine Juarez, Sarah Julig, Christina Kelly, Michelle Loughlin, Melissa MacAlpin, Holly Pitre and Hanna Von Goeler

Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Vandana Jain

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ABC No Rio is pleased to host WW$: MoneyMoneyMoney!!, the culminating exhibition of the Wonder Women Residency Project presented by _gaia. The six-week residency brings together ten emerging artists to engage in discussions about their work, the economy, feminism, and personal relationships to money.
The projects that have developed over the course of the residency are diverse in form and concept.

Some of the artists are documenting their relationship to money, such as Andrea Callard in her sound piece “Comfort with Money,” or Sarah Julig in her visualization of her income and spending as a grid of collected and found baubles. Pollie Barden charts the financial and ecological impact of the Cobb salad, depending on what season it is eaten.

Other artists are inspired by the idea of personal and/or domestic currencies. Hanna Von Goeler takes money and transforms it into currency by drawing, painting and piercing it. Holly Pitre quantifies the “value” of the members of her nuclear family by painting their portraits on recycled tea bags filled with different spices. Geraldine Juarez waxes metaphorical, charting her “loves and deaths” in an emotional stock market programmed in Processing.

The current state of economic recession also informs several works. Michelle Loughlin is embroidering atop images of foreclosed homes in her neighborhood, rendering the new bank owner’s in cross-stitch. Mary Button has created a board game where you buy and sell resources in an effort to rebuild society while Melissa MacAlpin takes the loaded image of a house on fire, and turns it into kitsch.

In an attempt re-establish the value of our money, Christina Kelly has taken shredded American currency to use as the brown matter in a worm compost bin, wondering what the transformation of paper money into valuable dirt could symbolize, and perhaps, how it can guide the rebuilding of our economy.
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WW$ coincides with the Feminist Art Project. The purpose of the Feminist Art Project is to bring public attention to the significant and continuing impact of women and their art on all aspects of contemporary art practice, highlighting their international influence, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Exhibition funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Dedalus Foundation.

PRESS CONTACT: Doris Caçoilo info@gaiastudio.org 201-386-0486