Wow, it's been two years
since we started Your Art Here. This email is dedicated to everyone
who's supported us and what we do. We hope you are all safe,
motivated, and registered to vote.
In this E-mail:
New Your Art Here billboards!
Your Art Here Mentor, Osamu James Nakagawa
solo show
New
Your Art Here Billboards!!!
Announcing the Your Art Here Patriot Art Series! Four
patriotism-influenced billboards will be hanging in downtown
Indianapolis, IN on Massachussetts Avenue in the months leading
up to the November presidential election.
America has a strong history of revolution. In
fact, our founding fathers were revolutionaries who placed a
high price on critiquing and changing their government. An aunt
of mine once said to me that we she was growing up that she
and her peers saw protest as a kind of civic responsibility.
Yet somehow, today it seems that the popular definition of patriotism
means a blind love of one's country. The dictionary will tell
us that patriotism is defined as “the love of ones country,
and the willingness to sacrifice for it.” One could say
that all social change in America has come from those willing
to sacrifice as they faced scrutiny for challenging the norm.
In an effort to reflect on what patriotism means today four
artists will have work displayed on billboards on Massachusetts
Avenue in downtown Indianapolis.
Two billboards led off the series this weekend
(9/1/2004) - Does Your Vote Count? by Your Art Here founding
member, Shana Berger and Lies Lies Lies by Your Art Here
founding member, Owen Mundy. Both billboards reside on the 900
block of East Mass Ave - check
them out!
Shana Berger’s Does Your Vote Count? examines the
social values, freedom, liberty, and justice against the backdrop
of the 2000 election incident...
Owen Mundy’s Anaglyph,
Lies Lies Lies looks at the media influence on the spectacle
of politics, life and death...
[ Red and Blue 3D glasses recommended,
but not required ]
...And next up, in October, Dan Reidy and Wendy
Taylor's #2 makes a humorous interpretation of America's
ongoing 'destiny' to be #1.
Osamu
James Nakagawa: MA - BETWEEN THE PAST
SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Sept. 3 - Oct. 2
Reception: Friday, Sept. 3, 7-9pm
Opening on Sept. 3 is MA - BETWEEN THE PAST, featuring photographic
images from Osamu James Nakagawa (Your Art Here Mentor!). In
this series, Nakagawa explores ideas of memory and cross-cultural
tensions that he has experienced in his own life. These large-scale
photographs include images taken by Nakagawa's father and grandfathers
combined with his own. Find out more here: http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu
[pictured] Rain, (detail), pigment inkjet print 2003
