EMINENT DOMAINS (proper names), Robert Miller Gallery, 6 March – 11 April, 2015. NYC
A group exhibition organized by gallery artist Willem Oorebeek, featuring works by Doug Ashford, Aglaia Konrad, and Glen Rubsamen.
EMINENT DOMAINS (proper names) addresses the mechanisms and hierarchies of the art world: absence, eminence, and protégés, all of which are inclusive in the enterprise of presentation. The exhibition titles broadly refer to the infinite perspectives from which we look at art. The traditional gallery space has been described as a hermetic space, within which the art viewing experience may be controlled to a degree. Oorebeek endeavors in his curatorial exercise to allow the participant to (or not to) engage with the art in a potentially open structure without being separated by (white) space that isolates the works from each other. Oorebeek describes the domain as the space where art is happening, as well as the space occupied by the act of its making. Within the context of this exhibition, eminence is fundamentally generated by the artist’s activity ““ awareness, intention, and gesture ““ and is not based on the (external) judgments of its reception in the art world.
Curated by Willem Oorebeek_(link)
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