David Shrigley
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
Royal Art Lodge
PFFR
Rich Jacobs
Richard Colman
Kime Buzzelli
Kyle Mock
Noah Lyon
Andrew Kuo
Erika Somogyi
Keith Jones
Maya Hayuk
Wes Lang
Andrew Jeffery Wright
Maxwell Williams
A Group Show of Tiny Works. The curator, Maxwell Williams, asked 70 people to interpret the idea of the Lilliputian and the temporal, the specks of dust that make up the world, the fleeting moments of pleasure and pain.
Curated by Maxwell Williams
Featuring David Shrigley, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Royal Art Lodge, PFFR, Rich Jacobs, Richard Colman, Kime Buzzelli, Kyle Mock, Noah Lyon, Andrew Kuo, Erika Somogyi, Keith Jones, Maya Hayuk, Wes Lang, Andrew Jeffery Wright, and many more!
Nothing against Christo and J-C, but art isn't meant to be big grand flourishes of orange gates. And really, I love Olafur, and huge waterfalls under the great bridges of New York are really cool, but art is supposed to be an intimate affair.
The artists selected are all people that I have worked with, come into contact with or am friends with—some are prominent artists, and some are part-time, but all are very creative people. As the world gets smaller, you will come into contact with these creative people also. And hopefully as the world gets smaller, the ability to connect with people will grow. I am asking this growing group of people to, as Steve Martin would say, "get small."
So I set upon having over 70 people interpret the idea of the Lilliputian and the temporal, the specks of dust that make up the world, the fleeting moments of pleasure and pain. I wanted the artists to bend over their workbenches and canvases and get inside of their tiny artworks. I wanted to freeze a moment so you could all lean in, get our faces right up next to the artwork, as close as you can possibly get, and see a tiny beautiful thing. I wanted to make a galaxy of tiny art, a prismatic assemblage of little moments: this is Brevity's Rainbow.
-Curator's Note, Maxwell Williams
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer Street - New York