Art-O-Mat Gallery is pleased to present Zeitgeist 2009, an exhibition of 10 artists organized by Chris Lee.
Featuring Artists:
Annie Rudden (aka anniecat), Yevgeniya Baras, Peter Bardazzi, Gilbert
Giles, Kim Gordon, Marie Koo, Christopher Lee, Heather Morgan,
Christian Pietrapiana, and Christina Wickstein.
The next generation of our culture is already here and is sending out
complex and sometimes disturbing signals. This new spirit has yet to be
defined and is rapidly changing and shaping the culture, politics,
communications, the planet and us.
Zeitgeist 2009 is a creative attempt to witness, understand and participate in this spirit of our time.
Christopher Lee, the curator and a participant in the exhibition
invited a group of artists to interpret and go beyond current events in
a search of a truer significance of the theme Zeitgeist 2009.
“Things have lost their original meaning in terms of being cutting edge
and the power of definition has become meaningless in these troubling
times” says artist peter bardazzi.
The resulting collective group of works and images is a window into
this new landscape of our time: emphasizing how important it is
that we understand that culture, politics, and nature are now encoded
with new meaning in Zeitgeist 2009.
About
Art-O-Mat L.I.C.
Art-O-Mat L.I.C.
began in 1995 as one of the Internet’s earliest online art projects.
Its latest incarnation is an Artisan Store and Gallery in the heart of
Long Island City’s Hunters Point. The gallery and store have sold works
from over 200 artists, artisans, musicians, and authors as well as
items from local cultural
organizations. Art-O-Mat
L.I.C.
holds community events such as workshops, Folktale
night
(local oral histories), formal lectures on the history of L.I.C., and
Poetry Sundays. The store sells unique gift items, items with
local flavor, and books on art and literature.“Zeitgeist 2009”
will be
Art-O-Mat’s
twenty-fifth exhibition in the Gallery since opening on October 25th,
2005.
Our mission is to provide a venue to promote and preserve local arts
and the community within which artists live and work.
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