Thursday, June 28, 2012

Medium of Exchange: The Art of Cash



6-22-12
Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
<http://www.banfill-locke.org/>
Medium of Exchange: The Art of Cash

Nice small community gallery space if you can find it, with handcrafted gifts shop at entry, a bit at odds with the art exhibition but understandably so. Fun participatory money message buttons (I picked “Buy My Vote”) given by curator of show John Schuerman, himself an accomplished artist <www.schuermanfineart.com> Photo during artist reception shows artist Rachel Breen <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tFJL7I-1gA> (3 minute egg segment) creating her conceptual piece “The Bank of Our Common Wealth: Prosperity, sewing together donated dollar bills on a vintage sewing machine, with a certificate of deposit with the message at the bottom “Thank you for your investment in the idea that we are all in this together!” I especially liked the work of Karen Searle <http://www.karensearle.com/> and her money stole and the alternative version of the Rubrik's money cube titled “Job Search” by John Ilg <http://mnartists.org/john_ilg> — both were most clever and compelling in their messages.