Exhibitions and Events
Joy Drury Cox, Flyleaves (clockwise from top left): Artists in Revolution: Portraits of the Russian Avant-Garde 1905-1925 by Robert C. Williams, Of the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture Vittorio Lampugnani Ed., Ethics and Language by Charles L. Stevenson, Lost Treasures of Europe Henry La Farge Ed., Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to present Some Titles (in a library), a new installation by artist Joy Drury Cox
Saturday, May 7, 2011, 6 PM – 4 AM
Old School
233 Mott Street
Library, Room 106
New York City
Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to present Some Titles (in a library), a new installation by artist Joy Drury Cox for SCHOOL NITE, an event featuring twenty artists and organizations, curated by The They Co. in conjunction with the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for The New City. The exhibition continues through Sunday, May 8, 12 PM – 6 PM.
For SCHOOL NITE, Cox selected the school’s old library for an installation that asks viewers to consider the library as a metaphor for a city. Each book manifests itself as a plan, a perspective, and a physical structure to contend with – ultimately becoming allegories for our relationship to the architecture of the city. In consideration of future visions or idealized re-workings of the “new” city, Cox installed book flyleaves throughout the space. These blank spaces of the books are like many spaces within a city: quiet, overlooked, waiting for someone to inscribe some form of ownership onto them. Various works within the installation extend the metaphor of library as city to meditate on the possibilities of the future in the context of the immediate.
Joy Drury Cox is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work uses variations on mapping and abstraction to reveal unconsidered spaces. Her text-less drawings of bureaucratic forms pose questions to viewers about the nuances of defining people, places, and events within the structure of a two-dimensional document.
About SCHOOL NITE
Restrictive allocation of city space foster partnerships between otherwise unrelated groups. Here, a vacant school is bequeathed to artists and cultural organizations for site-specific installations, performances, discussions and lectures implicating hopes, insights, and fears for a Future City. SCHOOL NITE is made possible in part through generous support from the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City, the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, and The They Co. More information
About the Festival of Ideas for the New City
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.
festivalofideasnyc.com / watch video
For additional information, please send an email to: hello {at} hafny.org.
