Exhibition
Modes of Mapping
6 Sep 2018 – 25 Oct 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Address
- 81 Barclay Street
- New York
New York - 10007
- United States
Travel Information
- A, C, E to Chambers Street Walk south two blocks and turn right on Barclay Street. Walk two blocks and enter the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at 81 Barclay Street 1, 2, or 3 to Chambers Street Walk 4 blocks South on West Broadway and turn right on Park Place. Walk one block and enter Shirley Fiterman Art Center at 81 Barclay Street
Modes of Mapping presents a cross-section of contemporary artists engaged in aspects of mapping in its broadest sense.
About
Curated by Lisa Panzera, Director of the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, this exhibition explores a wide range of artistic tendencies that incorporate cartography as a departure point. Fourteen artists, including one collaborative, are featured, all of whom employ distinctly varied approaches, from the investigation of intricate, abstract networks, to explorations of identity and place, to detailed depictions of entire imagined worlds. Other issues at play concern the technological, as well as the invisible, and engage aspects of geolocation and global positions systems, charting radio wave frequencies, and making visually tangible experiential interactions and psychological concerns. Moving away from the conventional, utilitarian function of maps, these artworks make apparent ways in which maps are inherently subjective, often political, marking arbitrary boundaries that shape our emotional and aesthetic, as well as geographical, perceptions of the world.
