GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) announced the 10 artists, or artists pairs, participating in ArtPrize 10 at GRAM on Wednesday, Sept. 12.
The exhibition will showcase a broad range of contemporary art by local, regional, national and international artists—competing in every ArtPrize category: 2D, 3D, Time-based and Installation. ArtPrize 10 at GRAM will be on view from Sept. 12 until Oct. 14, 2018.
Curators at the GRAM say the entries will take advantage of the Museum's dynamic architecture, pushing beyond the boundaries of the gallery spaces alone. The exhibition includes outdoor installations and large-scale nighttime projections on the building’s exterior, and also contains sculpture, painting and interactive performance works.
“Visitors to ArtPrize 10 at GRAM will find the Grand Rapids Art Museum's most ambitious presentation yet—dazzling installations adapted to interior and exterior public spaces, technology-based interactive experiences, monumental sculpture and more," commented GRAM Director and CEO Dana Friis-Hansen.
"The Grand Rapids Art Museum is delighted to present 10 artists in ArtPrize 10 at GRAM," said GRAM Chief Curator Ron Platt. "The artists in the exhibition are grappling with urgent social issues and the current state of public and private discourse surrounding these issues—I look forward to seeing how our visitors will engage with the work on view."
The ten artists featured and their voter codes:
Conrad Egyir
The Labor of Love
Category: 2D
Vote Code: 68461
Sarah FitzSimons
Pacific Quilt
Category: 3D
Vote Code: 67108
Scott Froschauer
The Word of the Street
Category: Installation
Vote Code: 68065
John Gutoskey
PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies
Category: 2D
Vote Code: 68075
Saskia Jordá
Cacerolazo
Category: Installation
Vote Code: 68347
Nathaniel Lewis
Re:VOLVER
Category: 3D
Vote Code: 68343
Willam R. Mayer
Wall of Sound
Mark Newport
Making Mends
Category: 2D
Vote Code: 68077
Mark Niskanen and Jani-Matti Salo
No Names
Category: Time-Based
Vote Code: 67125
Kendra Sollars and Lauren Strohacker
Animal Land
Category: Time-Based
Vote Code: 68404
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