Exhibition from the Archives: I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me
In the beginning of 2011, EFA Project Space organized an exhibition entitled I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me curated by artist/curator Eric Doeringer, which explored the fraught relationship between emerging artists and the established art world. The title plays on Joseph Beuys’s infamous performance I Like America and America Likes Me.
"They [young artists] desire to participate more fully and to be recognized but are simultaneously repulsed by some key aspects. There is a critical or iconoclastic character to much of the work, but also a great deal of reverence. Despite their criticism these artists clearly love art."
-Exhibition Press Release
Jennifer Dalton , "How Do Artists Live?" 35mm slides and projector, 2006
Simon Grennan & Chris Sperandio - "Modern Masters" 2002 and "Art School Superstars"1998
Exhibition Dates: January 14th – March 5th, 2011
Artists: Conrad Bakker, Marc Bijl, Jennifer Dalton, Eric Doeringer, Nancy Drew, Bill Drummond, Alex Gingrow, Grennan & Sperandio, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Charles Gute, Nate Harrison, Pablo Helguera, Dan Levenson / Little Switzerland, The Matthew Higgs Society, Loren Munk, Filip Noterdaeme, Laurina Paperina, William Powhida, Ward Shelley, Jade Townsend