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Gretchen Bender
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Acceptable Entertainment
Acceptable Entertainment presents a selection of photographs by twenty-six contemporary artists who are involved with both the imagery and institution of television. Ranging from the poetic to the political, their photographs repackage the fragments of broadcast images brought daily into our living rooms.
read more »Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social
Art is no longer restricted necessarily to a paradigm of formal values that constitutes or describes an ‘art world’ or aesthetic scheme. Instead, it posits a hybrid network of provisional relations. Hybrid Neutral examines the way in which abstraction, today, in the art matrix, reaches into the social.
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