In Good Company

Matthew Cronin, Carlos Franco, Wieteke Heldens, Alexandro Silver,
Anika Todd, Catalina Tuca, Joseph Wilcox, Huidi Xiang, & Alisa Yang

November 11 - December 18, 2022

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A little over a year ago, we started this curatorial project using Anthony Huberman’s Take Care essay as our point of departure. In it, he calls on contemporary alternative spaces to strive towards maladjustment:

“these smaller institutions are proud to be maladjusted: they do not adjust themselves to an art community obsessed with knowledge, power, and scale. Instead, they step onto the smaller and more vulnerable roads and allow learning to replace teaching, camaraderie to replace competition, the homage to replace the explanation, and the dance move to replace the chess move.”

Our main goal was to explore the potential in NFTs for emerging contemporary artists creating challenging and thoughtful work. Since then, we have hosted seven exhibitions, helped over twenty-five artists make their first NFTs, produced thirty podcast episodes, and built a community of maladjusted individuals. We’ve worked to implement sustainable models that honor individual’s labor including a 60/40 sales split, compensation for guest curators, and appropriate production budgets. But we are looking for something more maladjusted than that. 

The artists presented in this exhibition represent the first group that will take part in our “Collector Pass” initiative, an annual pass issued in the form of an NFT that guarantees ownership of exclusive physical and digital artworks from every participating artist for the year, in addition to other community benefits. The proceeds from this initiative will help to secure artist funding up front and maintain gallery operations, while strengthening a collective spirit. Please join us. 

Matthew Cronin lives and works in New York’s Lower East Side. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from University of Texas at Austin as well as a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Cronin reimagines pre-existing images in order to explore the invisible functions of commercially produced photographs.

Carlos Franco is trying to make his existence as anonymous as possible. 

Wieteke Heldens graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and has alternately lived and worked in The Hague and New York since 2010. Painting is her primary medium, though in practice, she is a conceptual artist. She uses abstract visual forms and processes to explore systems of meaning and states of mattering.

Alexandro Silver is a multidisciplinary Dominican American artist, curator, and facilitator. His work focuses on emergence, entropy, and finding joy in the impossibility of trying to impose order onto nature.  

Anika Todd received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Todd is a sculptor/media artist investigating landscape and ownership; Todd’s work functions through acts of trespass — simultaneously enacting and challenging systems that oppress, compartmentalize, and own in order to control.

Catalina Tuca is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator and independent curator, born and raised in Santiago, Chile. After earning a BFA and a degree in Art Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions since 2004.

Joseph Wilcox adopts the roles of image gatherer, entrepreneur, documentarian, object-maker, and organizer to explore how institutional control, political systems, and social power structures undermine individual & collective autonomy. 

Huidi Xiang is an artist and researcher currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. In her practice, Huidi makes sculptural objects, installations, and systems to examine the spatial and temporal effects of inhabiting both virtual and physical worlds in late capitalism.

Alisa Yang is an antidisciplinary artist and independent filmmaker with a research based practice exploring alternative ways art can be a currency for care. Centering the body as a site of geopolitical and social conditionings, she works across video, installation, and situational specific projects in orienting oneself towards social change.

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