Out Of Site
In 1997, the World Trade Center gained a new group of tenants: artists. Over the past 10 years, LMCC’s residency program, now called Workspace has provided free, temporary studio space in Lower Manhattan to over 250 emerging artists and writers in such locations as the Woolworth Building and the U.S. Custom House. Our mission to place artists in studios just blocks from Wall Street has changed what it means to “work” downtown. Invited curators explored the vast archive of the LMCC residency program and came up with four diverse exhibitions, combining artists from various years, locations and mediums. Out of Site is a series of guest curated exhibitions and special events that takes artists’ work out of the studio and brings audiences to several locations downtown to explore the program’s past and present.
Exhibitions & Events
The Shape of Things to Come
Curator: Marco Antonini
REDHEAD at LMCC,
125 Maiden Lane, fl 2, off Water Street
November 5 – December 14, 2007
Hours: Monday – Friday, 12noon – 6pm; Closed November 12, 22 and 23
Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 2007, 6-8pm
Downtown Manhattan has always been a place of great juxtapositions, the dispenser of a human energy that ebbs and flows. The blue collar and the white collar workers. The tourists. All experiencing the same day. Businesses succeeding and failing. All under an impossibly high sky. And in another world, but right down the street, these juxtapositions have contributed to the creation of some visionary artwork, projects, and ideas.
Making Noise
Curators: Andrew Cappetta and Jeff Pash
Melville Gallery at the South Street Seaport Museum,
213 Water Street, near the South Street Seaport
November 28, 2007 – January 2, 2008
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm – 5pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29, 6-8pm
Making Noise features work by visual artists who utilize the many different modes by which sound is produced and received. Exploring the possibilities that lie within the relationship between producer and receiver, these artists demonstrate how the manipulation of sound can become a tool for the organization of power and, in turn, the subversion of it.
Imaginary Arsenals
Curator: Kimberly Lamm
Cuchifritos, Artists Alliance, Inc.,
120 Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets
(Inside the Essex Street Market at the South end of the building)
December 8, 2007 – January 19, 2008
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 12pm - 5:30pm
Closed December 20, 2007 - January 2, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 8, 4-6pm
Imaginary Arsenals addresses the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists. Less interested in explicit depictions of war, the exhibition explores the various ways political conflict insinuates itself into cultural imaginaries and manifests itself in artistic practice.
Human Resources
Curator: Sara Reisman@SEAPORT!
133 Beekman Street
(at Front Street, entrance at 207A Front Street)
Jan 8 - Feb 3, 2008
Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Friday & Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan 10 2008, 6 - 8pm
Space Provided by General Growth Properties
Human Resources takes into account elements of human exchange that many LMCC resident artists have explored while working downtown. Selected artworks recall David Rockefeller's founding of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council shortly after the Twin Towers were built, when the council's initial purpose was to humanize the architecture of the World Trade Center Plaza that many area workers found intimidating.
