La Mama Gallery and Bruce High Quality Foundation University Present:

LIVE/WORK: A Painting Show

Organized By Elizabeth Marshall and Caitlin MacQueen

Tomer Aluf/ James Brittingham/ Heidi Hahn/ Rebecca Watson Horn/ Kathryn Kerr/ Caitlin MacQueen/ Rose Marcus/ Elizabeth Marshall/ Leigh Ruple/ Damon Sfetsios

November 9th through November 20th, 2010 Opening reception Friday, November 12th, 6-10 pm

This press release anticipates the exhibition of 10 artists whom regard historical vocabularies of painting as a generative means to address the everyday. These artists have been pulled together because of their commitment to the image as a sustaining presentation of personal and social experience. Navigating language, history, art, trash, technology, social networking and subjectivity, this collection of work shows what a perverse privilege it is to make paintings in the open-source age, and how curious the questions of subject and style can be.

Does the painted rectangle provoke an antagonistic relationship to the passive demands of the glowing screen – Can one placate the other – Can one sign off – Do paintings today threaten the painter with touch-sensitive sleep or can we still negotiate an end point – What noise does a painting make when it restarts

Live/Work is made possible by the inspiration and encouragement of The Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and is one of many curatorial expeditions by participants, facilitators, and friends of The BHQFU.