Wax Apple
Michael Guidetti, Alyse Ronayne, Christopher Samuels, Natalie Rognsøy, Kate Steciw, Sam Falls, Paul Cowan, Robin Cameron, Ben Schumacher,
Bailey Salisbury, Myranda Gillies, Collin Hatton, Jessica Labatte, Lucas Blalock, Andy Meerow, Andrea Longacre-White
June 11 - July 17, 2011
Natalie Rognsøy, Sam Falls, Kate Steciw, Jessica Labatte, Collin Hatton, Lucas Blalock
Andrea Longacre-White, Kate Steciw, Robin Cameron, Robin Cameron
Andy Meerow
Chris Samuels
Bailey Salisbury and Myranda Gillies
Michael Guidetti, Paul Cowan, Ben Schumacher
Ben Schumacher
Michael Guidetti
Lucas Blalock
Collin Hatton
Alyse Ronayne
Paul Cowan
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In a model of conceptual art that privileges the process and intent of a project over a final object, the act of making and the act of reflection are at odds with one another; the physical document cannot be the 'real' work. In Wax Apple, Bodega presents the work of sixteen artists who confuse this historical model of separation. The collection of objects highlights the temporal and physical located-ness of things at the same time it addresses their methods of production and distribution.
How do we locate a work in the complicated relationship between material object, digital file, printed document, and the network of its reception? What is the 'real' work that we are locating? How useful is it to think about a 'real' work? In what capacity does it exist?
Wax Apple presents a renewed enthusiasm for the intrinsic and formal parameters of objects: medium, material, color, composition, etc. The knowledge that these themes are the subject of a well-worn art historical dialogue does not lead the artists to a self-defeating cynicism, for these themes are indispensable tools in understanding our complex world, its images and theoretical discourse. These material and formal investigations place the work in a dynamic relationship between production, product, and reception.
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