"it can happen here" at the Museum of New Art (MONA)

Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:05

Pontiac, MI - With this exhibit, the Museum of New Art hopes to question what and where art can occur.  Whether what is allowed globally can occur locally.  A questioning of art itself, as it becomes more and more about centralized markets, about placement, about the external, and becomes less about history, the sense of place and creation, of the internal that once incited its creation.  On exhibition from January 27 through February 23.

Today's art has become a movement away from the personal toward the collective artist, moving from a single identity and a singular purpose toward a multiplicity that advances only greater exposure and careerism.

Twenty years ago, art students graduated to rebel against everything they were once taught.  Today, students are taught the art of rebellion as a matter of course.  The avant-garde has been institutionalized.

Participating artists:

Kyle Irving

Chandana Reddy

Mikhail Steinberg

Nathaniel Whitcomb

This small band of Detroit artists proves that exciting new art can happen anywhere.  And, in today’s cultural spin, that is as avant-garde as it gets.- Jane Speaks, from Art Can't Happen Here.

Visit the Museum of New Art (MONA) at : www.detroitmona.com