Crane Arts

Medium Resistance

Medium Resistance presents contemporary works of craft and print that resist old-fashioned distinctions between high art and artisanship. Informed by historical avant-garde practices such as those of the Productivists, Black Mountain College and, more recently, the  Interventionists,  these provocative works reassess the mediums  expressive, communicative, and material possibilities beyond known aesthetic, social, and political boundaries. Vessels and posters, digital images and books, to name just a few examples, straddle the divisions between art, craft, and mass production, strategically exploring each format s relative autonomy and usefulness, its potential for participation and collaboration, communication and dissemination, and aesthetic, social, and technical labor.

Artists
Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret
An Atlas of Radical Cartography published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press
Colette Fu
Cut and Paint
David Rhys Jones
Dylan Beck and Jason Scuilla
Eva Wylie
Francesc Ruiz
Leslie Mutchler
Marc Herbst
Martin Mazorra
Bill Rankin
Robert Dawson
Women's Studio Workshop
Piper Shepard

Magnan Metz Gallery & International Curatorial Exchange Present Alexandre Arrechea
@ Icebox Project Space

As the first International Curatorial Exchange @ Crane Arts LLC's Ice Box Project Space, Alexandre Arrechea will show new and recent work (2004-2010).

"Orange Tree", a new installation by Arrechea, is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also includes: new media, video, prints, watercolors, and sculpture by the Cuban artist.