The Invisible Dog Art Center presents the first curatorial program Plus One, curated by artist Kiya Kim (Korean, b. 1977), which features artists Adam Smith Parker, Young Paik, Chong Gon Byun, Carolyn Salas, Eun Jung Hwang, Woolga Choi, Hong Seon Jang, Hee Jung Cho, Jason Peters, Julie Evanoff, Kiya Kim, Megan Prince, Noah Klersfeld, Richard Jochum, Sea Chang Chun & Thomas McKean.

What’s the fun of an event if you don’t get to bring along a plus-one? What’s the point of being involved with a vital and forward-thinking artistic community if you don’t get to invite your colleagues, mentors, and creative crushes to the party?

Plus-One Curation models a new kind of artist involvement in the gallery process. Where artists are too often encouraged to cultivate narrowness, Plus-One Curation asks them to pause and reflect on the contemporary art scene at large. Placing themselves on the other side of the artistic equation, the Plus-One artist-curator must look at art with a different kind of attention, maintaining his or her unique vision while expanding notions of what should get shown and how.

The first installment of Plus-One Curation is Kiya Kim’s “If You See Nothing, Say Something,” which inverts the New York subway slogan to explore the wonder of the everyday discovery. The fall show, Gabriel Yozzo’s “Pseudonym Project,” playfully interrupts the branding mechanism of contemporary culture: every artist included will chose a pseudonym instead of using his or her name.