NYU The Commons Gallery presents Lefty’s, a group exhibition featuring:

Michael Caputo Lauren Christiansen Joe Graham Felsen Jenny Hagevik Bringaker Dominic Nurre Carlos Reyes Ben Schumcher Brad Troemel

Performances by Jennie Bringaker and Carlos Reyes on September 15, 2010

(Anti?) Post modern, post structural, transparently Marxists, anti analytic Lacannians, prosthelytizing anti humanists, both romantic and enlightened both seekers of truth and myth busting truth generators. So much talk, so little time. Once it is acknowledged it is done.

How do we address the paradoxical nature of truth in the face of more and more and more and more information. How do some artists mitigate the moribund moment? “Lefty’s” is an attempt to look at how acknowledging our fleeting presence combined with our seemingly endless access to bits of data disguised as knowledge can cultivate an emotional and intellectual culture of disengagement and discontinuity. Moreover, it is an attempt to showcase how some artists co-opt disengagement towards their own artistic ends.

Some utilize this strategy through aesthetic inquiry, adding form around a negative space to reveal something that is not directly visible. Others use the concept as a way of problematizing current models of art consumption. And some use the strategy to deflect the pressure to “reveal” oneself through their art in order for the public to access artistic authenticity as a source of meaning.