Show Your Work

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Show Your Work is titled after the ubiquitous request of math teachers everywhere. The artists in this exhibition challenge us in different ways to consider the role of  “work” in their artwork; from art brought to life through labor-intensive virtuosic efforts, to art that succeeds exactly because the artist did less, not more, work. By questioning how art, labor, virtue and meaning intersect, these artworks ask us to consider what kinds of labor did or did not occur in their making and how that makes us feel, exposing our cultural biases and belief systems around success and working hard.