Installation Views VI, 2016
A group show curated by James Lam Scheuren that highlights artist networks of support and community, rather than metrics of exchange related to sales, financial speculation, and notions of collectibility.
In my case, I traded work with friend and artist Teresa Cervantes. She gave me a fertility sculpture made out of styrofoam, and I used installation view photographs from her recent thesis show in Philadelphia to generate a new presentation of her work at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX.
Installation view photography courtesy of Lawndale Art Center
James Lam Scheuren
Artist and curator of Traded
“Traded is a group exhibition consisting of artists who have traded works with one another. The organizational premise is simple. I reached out to a number of artists, who I know personally and whose work I respect, and asked them to propose one artist with whom they have traded works to join the artist roster. In this way, an extended network of artists began to form, and the concrete evidence of these connections exists in the artworks themselves.”