About
Opening Friday, June 8, 2012, “Making Dollars” will feature eleven artists whose works address value systems, offering a range of personal responses to how business is conducted today. Conceived as an art “scavenger hunt”, the exhibition will occupy the fourth floor of CIC with works integrated into the function of conference rooms, meeting areas, hallways, and other common office areas. “Making Dollars” will be on view through November 2012.
Inspired by the mission of the Cambridge Innovation Center as a space for emerging companies, “Making Dollars” explores the entrepreneurial spirit that artists and startups share. The exhibition pairs artists responding to contemporary business practices through quiet, personal works with those who are using their practices to influence or subvert systems of exchange. Many of the works in this show examine the commodification of art and of the artists themselves, while other works comment on greater economic realities of today. A consideration of how values are defined and negotiated is underscored in “Making Dollars”, while a sense of humor and inherent playfulness links this group of artists together in a multimedia presentation that includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video.
The eleven artists are: Alexandra Emmons, Noah Feehan / AKA, Yassy Goldie, Geoff Hargadon, James Horgan, Ian Jeffrey, Mister Never (G. Maxim Burdett), Nick Rodrigues, Jess Wheelock with photographs by Catherine McMahon, and Carlin Wing. All artists were once or are currently located in the Boston area. All of the works in the show are either new or have rarely been exhibited to the public.
The evening of Friday, June 8 will include performance and video works which will be presented throughout the course of the public reception from 5 to 8pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public. ID is required for entry, which is located at 1 Broadway. Business hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.
Organized by Kristen Wawruck, a New York City/Boston-based curator, “Making Dollars” is the second in a series of group exhibitions at CIC, and the first by a Curator-in-Residence at CIC.
About the Cambridge Innovation Center:
Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, the Cambridge Innovation Center is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. The Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company’s growth. Currently, over 450 companies are located at CIC.
