ART AS RESEARCH
/ART AS RESEARCH
Gillespie Gallery of Art
September 25 – October 24, 2014
This exhibition examines recent experiments in creative research viewed through artwork by 24 contemporary US artists-- all participants in Provisions Library's Research Residency Program. Each artist used Washington DC as a platform for socially engaged research using archives, museums, local communities and policy think advocacy organizations. Exhibition themes range from outer space exploration to neighborhood mapping, from urbanism to intellectual property and from nationality to surveillance.
Featuring: Greg Bloom with Jenn Stowe (DC), Gareth Branwyn (DC), Riah Buchanan (Los Angeles), Kate Chandler (DC), Edgar Endress (St. Augustine), Paul Farber (Philadelphia), Katie Hargrave (Chattanooga), Robbie Herbst (Los Angeles), Scott Holmquist (Berlin), James Huckenpahler (DC), Pam Jordan (Berlin), Nate Larson (Baltimore), Pedro Lasch (Raleigh-Durham), Jaimes Mayhew (Baltimore), Katie Grace McGowan (Detroit), Anne Elizabeth Moore with Julia Gfröer (Chicago), Susan Morgan (Los Angeles), Heidi Neilson (Brooklyn), Houng Ngô (Paris), Emmanuel Pratt (Chicago), Ding Ren (Amsterdam), Siobahn Rigg (DC), Steve Rowell (Los Angeles), Tim Schwartz (Los Angeles), Terry Scott (DC), Cassie Thornton (San Francisco), and Jon Winet (Iowa City).
