Join Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts at the Re Institute for its own “Flash Mob”! The opening reception will be held on May 19th from 3PM to 6 PM. The exhibition runs from May 19th through June 16th.
The existence of so-called “Flash Mobs” predates the term itself. Historically, artists who have been united by a common time and place (such as Paris in the 1920s and NYC in the 1950s), have frequently congregated to debate cultural beliefs, concerns, and approaches to art making — such artists have used their work as a mechanism with which to question the culture of their times. Within the myriad fringe cultures of today, artists more than ever tend to generate their own societal realities and microcosms in an attempt to transcend the individual. Collectively, the artists in this exhibit remain part of this continuum, while simultaneously pushing the envelope of previous artistic movements. Here, you will find everything from fresh perspectives and appropriations of ‘traditional media’, to new media and performance-based methods — a paradoxically ‘universal plurality’ that renders each artist simultaneously “Individual” AND “Member”. Unconfined by a single medium, these artists embrace everything from photography and drawing, to sculpture, painting, and almost any possible combination therein. What unifies them is neither a literal theme nor common medium, but rather a sensibility that acknowledges, questions, and deconstructs (if not jettisons) tradition in favor of the more unorthodox and imaginative. Striving to avoid the regurgitation of their own ideas, this Flash Mob boldly pushes boundaries through its ambition of perpetual transformation.
