Legal Tender is an exhibition that examines the overlaps between the language of finance and the language of romance. Terms like mutual, interest, tender, bond, investment, equity, and transparency describe both financial processes and interpersonal relationships. The nine participants in this exhibition perform financial alchemy, converting the forms of standardization, currency, and protocol into different, unanticipated forms of value.
Exhibitors
Endia Beal, Matt Hilger, Sarah Meyohas, R. Lyon, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Carlos Vela-Prado, WHERE (Lucy Hunter + R. Lyon)
Writer in Residence
Dorothy Howard of arachne.cc, Recess, and WAGE
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Endia Beal, Matt Hilger, Sarah Meyohas, R. Lyon, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Carlos Vela-Prado, WHERE (Lucy Hunter + R. Lyon)
Writer in Residence
Dorothy Howard of arachne.cc, Recess, and WAGE
Featured Publication
Art Handler
Download Legal Tender exhibition info PDF.
View artists' press links.
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EXHIBITION PROGRAMS AT THE ALICE Saturday April 30, 5-8pm - Legal Tender Opening Reception Saturday May 14, 6-9PM - Georgetown Art Attack Saturday, May 21, 3-5pm - Is it rude if I ask how you pay the rent? A conversation on funding artist-run spaces, convened to help The Alice figure out its own financial structure. Saturday May 21, 6-8pm - Legal Tender and Processing Closing Reception |
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Participant Bios |
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ENDIA BEAL is a North Carolina based artist, educator and activist who is internationally known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the contemporary personal stories of minority women working within corporate space. She aligns herself with artists like Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson who use stories to question conformity and gender norms. Beal currently serves as the Director of Diggs Gallery and Assistant Professor of Art at Winston-Salem State University. As a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008, Beal earned a dual bachelor’s degree in Art History and Studio Art. In 2013, Beal graduated from Yale School of Art with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, and she was also an artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2013. Beal is featured in online editorials including The New York Times, NBC, BET, Huffington Post, Slate, and National Geographic. She also appeared in Essence Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine South Africa and Newsweek Japan. Her work has been exhibited in the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, Michigan, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture based in Charlotte, NC, the Aperture Foundation of New York, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz, and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.
endiabeal.com MATTHEW HILGER is a Seattle-based artist with artistic training in photomedia and a studio practice deeply rooted in contemporary theory. Born in 1986 outside Chicago and raised near Kansas City, Hilger earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and his MFA at the University of Washington in 2011. In addition to his formal studies and studio practice, Hilger has worked with nonprofits that focus on community empowerment and education. matthew-hilger.squarespace.com R. LYON R. Lyon is an artist who lives and works in New York. irlyon.com SARAH MEYOHAS is a French-American artist based in New York. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School, and an M.F.A. from Yale University. Her cryptocurrency, BitchCoin, and her recent Stock Performance have been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, WIRED, Vice, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post, among others. She has also appeared on CNBC, PBS, and CBC. Her home in New York is her eponymously named gallery. sarahmeyohas.com bitchcoin.biz CATHERINE TELFORD-KEOGH (b. 1986 Toronto) currently lives and works in Toronto. Her group exhibitions include Bronx Speaks, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (2015); Group Show, Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY (2014); Body and Material, Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2012). Catherine Telford-Keogh was a fellow at the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program (2013), the recipient of the Susan C. Clarke Award (2013) and the Fannie B. Pardee Prize (2011), and was a finalist for the Tony Devan Lewis Fellowship (2011). She earned her MAR in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University (2013) and MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2011). catherinetelfordkeogh.com CARLOS EMMANUELLE VELA-PRADO (b. 1984, Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Switzerland-based artist. His multimedia work relates the trace of objects and locations to a human presence. Using photography as a framework, Carlos explores the interstices between mediums, spaces, and poetics. In reframing these concepts to create complementary fusions, he serves as the composer to orchestrate different bodies of work that live in tension. He develops sets of instructions that manipulate each piece to create an unrealized function –a method he derives from programming. This method of thinking has allowed him to think unconventionally about the creative processes. He earned his BA from SUNY Albany in Computer Science and MFA from Yale School of Art in Sculpture. He has been awarded the Atelier Mondial Fellowship, 2016; Assets for Artist Grant, 2014 and LMCC Swing Space, 2013. He has exhibited internationally, recently at Palazzo De’ Toschi in Italy curated by Simone Menegoi, and will debut his next project, Villa Nocturna, during Art Basel 2016. carlosvelaprado.com WHERE is a think tank and on-demand publishing project headquartered in an undisclosed shipping container in Brooklyn, New York. Its operations test the assertion that art manifests the same patterns, behaviors, and properties present in all complex informational systems. Acknowledging the powers and perils of systems-based thinking, Where suspects that the mechanisms identified as producing growth and complexity in large-scale systems may be directly applicable to the field of artistic production. Where uses the exhibition format as a site for researching these mechanisms. Where is produced by the art historian Lucy Hunter and the artist R. Lyon. where-container.tumblr.com WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE DOROTHY HOWARD is a technology and media researcher, writer, and information activist. She focuses on digital labor, contemporary art, and online culture. Her first book of poetry, Troll, was published by Inpatient Press (2015). She is the Founder and Lead Editor of the Arachne webzine at arachne.cc. dorothyhoward.com FEATURED PUBLICATION ART HANDLER is a print and online publication about the social and cultural impacts of behind-the-scenes labor in the art world. The magazine reconsiders the worker in museums, galleries, studios, and other sites, both practically and theoretically. By focusing on this field, it offers readers new insight on interactions within the art world that are normally hidden. The call for new reflections on the mechanisms of the art industry can hopefully foster greater understandings on art and its practice for everyone involved. ART HANDLER puts labor at the center of culture. art-handler.com |
