COMMON SPACE
San Diego City College Gallery 2015
Lynn Susholtz/Stone Paper Scissors presents 4 interactive projects that highlight community engagement in several San Diego neighborhoods. These participatory pieces are an ongoing collaboration with City College Art Dept. and Crawford High School New Arrival students. Students and gallery participants share their stories and memories from their home countries and experiences of community, gallery participants will have the opportunity to engage in a gift exchange- considering how objects embody meaning and history, and you will join your “new neighbors” in a giant board game and collectively build public space.
Common Space is an exhibition of projects by four artists whose work either addresses issues associated with a particular locality and/or uses the concept of localized engagement as a starting point for the production of work. By addressing “the local” these artists hope to shed light on global issues of public space, neighborhood, and civic culture. Artists included: Lynn Susholtz, David Krimmel, Omar Pimienta, & David White
San Diego City College Gallery 2015
Lynn Susholtz/Stone Paper Scissors presents 4 interactive projects that highlight community engagement in several San Diego neighborhoods. These participatory pieces are an ongoing collaboration with City College Art Dept. and Crawford High School New Arrival students. Students and gallery participants share their stories and memories from their home countries and experiences of community, gallery participants will have the opportunity to engage in a gift exchange- considering how objects embody meaning and history, and you will join your “new neighbors” in a giant board game and collectively build public space.
Common Space is an exhibition of projects by four artists whose work either addresses issues associated with a particular locality and/or uses the concept of localized engagement as a starting point for the production of work. By addressing “the local” these artists hope to shed light on global issues of public space, neighborhood, and civic culture. Artists included: Lynn Susholtz, David Krimmel, Omar Pimienta, & David White
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Common Space presents four artists - David Krimmel, Omar Pimienta, Lynn Susholtz and David White -who blend art with activism, responding to homelessness, climate change, corporatization of food, societal isolation and global identity. They frame these topics in terms of the neighborhood, the colonia, the city block, transforming abstractions into intimacies.
This style of social practice art - also called interventionist art, socially engaged art or relational aesthetics is deeply rooted yet utterly contemporary. Early Surrealists experimented with audience interaction, but the field is perhaps most strongly defined by 1960s political activism and the rise of the counterculture.As a discipline, though, social practice art is relatively young. In 2005, San Francisco's California College of the Arts launched the first graduate program in Social Practice and Public Forms. Locally, many artists cite the influence of UCSD along with community-based initiatives such as North Park's Agitprop and Art Produce, the multinational women's collective Las Comadres, and the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. San Diego seems uniquely suited to this approach that promotes DIY values and trans-disciplinary strategies over commercialism. Suspended between the marketing engine of Los Angeles and the creative chum of Tijuana, the city exists in perpetual beta, a fitting environment for art that requires the viewer to engage as co-creator.
Introduction by Susan Myrland
This style of social practice art - also called interventionist art, socially engaged art or relational aesthetics is deeply rooted yet utterly contemporary. Early Surrealists experimented with audience interaction, but the field is perhaps most strongly defined by 1960s political activism and the rise of the counterculture.As a discipline, though, social practice art is relatively young. In 2005, San Francisco's California College of the Arts launched the first graduate program in Social Practice and Public Forms. Locally, many artists cite the influence of UCSD along with community-based initiatives such as North Park's Agitprop and Art Produce, the multinational women's collective Las Comadres, and the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. San Diego seems uniquely suited to this approach that promotes DIY values and trans-disciplinary strategies over commercialism. Suspended between the marketing engine of Los Angeles and the creative chum of Tijuana, the city exists in perpetual beta, a fitting environment for art that requires the viewer to engage as co-creator.
Introduction by Susan Myrland
