MoreArt’s new art project at Clinton Middle School is to create a new ONLINE EXHIBITION!
Artist Justin Berry is now working with the children at Clinton Middle School to try and explore all of the different ways that spaces can be conformed to artworks. Each student is going to come up with a perfect artwork and the perfect venue for showing it, thinking beyond the white walls and regular rectangles of traditional sites. Then, as a team, they are going to mix these up, placing one person's artwork in another person's idealized space. Each of the students is going to realize the way that space and site determines experience, understanding how context and content exist only through mutual compromise. The goal is to empower the students by giving them the perceptual tools to better understand the world around them, harnessing their creative energy to tackle a problem. The final show will exist as a conversation between the varying intents of the artworks and the underlying expectations of the sites that the students create. A candle, meant to be seen in a room with no light, is exhibited in a wind chamber meant to keep a kite in constant flight; meaning becomes something shared between the site, the objects within it, and the students themselves.
Justin Berry has created The Waymaker Gallery as a vehicle for reimagining what is possible. The Waymaker Gallery is an imaginary art space that is not bound by the laws of physics or budgetary concerns. A container reshapes whatever it contains; this is true for both art and a glass of water. The Waymaker Gallery is a venue that conforms to the art it exhibits rather than the other way around, adapting to the artist's practice rather than forcing the artist to adapt. Over time the gallery is reshaped even as it is reimagined.
Check it out on www.moreart.org to see the final show at the end of June!
