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alternative barter:

a new method of exchange?

What is Alternative Barter? Is it digital bartering? Is it a new type of currency? Which types of effort and motivation play a role in this field? What is value and who decides what the value of something is? In this exhibition, we explore the possibility of alternative bartering with the idea of value and concept. The 6 artists in the show investigate and contribute to the dialogue on different levels by using found objects, digital animations, and blockchain-based work.

Artists: Hyun Cho, Julie Gratz, Susan Luss, Mano Penalva, Julian Zuluaga

Curator: Pia Coronel

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Work Info

hyun cho

Hyun Cho was born in South Korea and she is currently based in New York City. Cho’s solo exhibitions include Midnight Deli, Open Space Baltimore, MD in 2016; YAYAYA, Conduits Arts, Melbourne, Australia in 2014; and Rocking On Empty, Fowler Project Space, NY in 2013. Her poetry has been published in the poetry journal Prelude in 2014. She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Sydney, Australia and Master of Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design, New York.

Julie Gratz

Julie Gratz is a Director, Animator, and Artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She grew up painting, dancing, and choreographing, so animation has become a beautiful culmination of all of her training and experience. Julie is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kaleida Studio, a video and animation studio that specializes in film, music, documentary, and commercial projects. Their award-winning work has been featured on VICE: The Creator's Project, Tribeca Film, Short of the Week, Great Big Story, CNN Films, Vimeo Staff Picks, Choreoscope International Film Festival, and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival.

Susan Luss

Susan Luss, (b. El Paso, Texas) is a transdisciplinary artist living in New York City, maintaining a studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Luss works with a range of found and other materials. She intermixes and assembles these, creating site responsive, yet adaptable works, which incorporate the architecture of space, the outside environment, and changing light.

Luss received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her BFA in Studio Arts Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Luss has exhibited her work at various venues in the New York area and beyond, including Lowe Mill in Huntsville, AL, Chashama in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, The Knockdown Center and Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, The Hole in NYC, Haverstraw RiverArts in Haverstraw, NY, Garner Arts Center in Garner, NY, Westbeth Gallery and The Painting Center in NYC, among others. Luss has curated exhibitions at Pratt Institute, Westbeth Gallery, and Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York. She serves as an advisory board member of ArtShape Mammoth, a non-profit organization with the mission to cultivate arts research, education, and dialogue by supporting the development of artists and connecting them with new communities. Luss’s work is held in public and private collections including Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and LaTable des Artists, Paris, among others. She recently completed an artist residency at Acumen in Brooklyn sponsored by COPE NYC.

This work is a site responsive installation that is a continuation of my ongoing series: 

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: #asphaltforensics.

I walked a block

Maybe two

More likely several miles

To find you.

mano penalva

Mano Penalva (b. 1987 in Salvador, Bahia - BR) is based in São Paulo. He has used materials like raffia bag, plastic canvas and stripes to reveal the poetic beauty within overlooked everyday objects. Penalva's work documents the material culture, behavior changes and globalization. They are deliberately nonrepresentational, allowing materials to dictate form and come together on their own. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in locations such as Central Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil; A Plus A in Venice, Italy; Cité des Arts in Paris, France; Passaporte Cultural in Mexico City, Mexico.

JULIAN ZULUAGA

Exhibition supported by:

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