Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt, Art Institute of Boston
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Urban Camo Santa, T-shirt, sml, med, lrg and xl, Printed by Inthang 2009
The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
MBTA Redline to Porter Square
Gallery Hours Tues-Fri, 12:00pm – 6:00pm / Sat 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Beyond the Fluff and Fold, Contemporary Artists & the T-Shirt is curated by Andrew Mroczek with an intorduction by Helen Walters, author of 100%, 200% and 300% Cotton, a series of titles on contemporary T-shirt graphics. Artists featured in the show: Burtonwood and Holmes, Ben Colebrook, Aaron Krach, J. Morrison, Dave Ortega and Dan Rollman.
In Beyond the Fluff & Fold, curator Andrew Mroczek highlights the work of seven artists who continue to use the T-shirt in the creation of conceptual works or to support current visual projects.
"T-shirts are a very unconventional and unlikely medium, but one that’s unquestionably a powerful avenue for self-expression," said Mroczek. "Each of these artists brings a fine art sensibility to an ephemeral object. If they are used in the way each artist intends – as clothing – then they defy most aspects of artistic preservation and expression to exist only the in the present."
Click here for a Flickr set showing some of the T-shirts were sent / show card
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