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GRAM announces ten artists featured in museum for ArtPrize 10

The 10 artists, or artist, will be taking advantage of the Grand Rapids Art Museums "dynamic architecture."

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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