This
exhibition features the work of artists who bring 21st-century
urgency to 19th-century principles of virtue through work and
craftsmanship. Inspired in part by developments that stem back as far
as the Industrial Revolution, the presentation examines contemporary
culture’s obsession with authenticity, the hand-crafted, and the
politics of manufacturing and labor. Works in the exhibition date
from the late 1980s to the present, a period in which artists turned
from industrial fabrication and a seamless aesthetic to hand-made or
"do-it-yourself" sensibilities.
Labour
and Wait
is organized by Julie Joyce, Curator of Contemporary Art, and
features artists/artist collaboratives from Europe, South America,
and the United States, many which are under-represented in museums on
the West Coast. Artists include Tonico Lemos Auad, Andrea Bowers,
Colin Darke, Wim Delvoye, Theaster Gates, Dewar and Gicquel, Fischli
and Weiss, Tim Hawkinson, Josiah McElheny, Grayson Perry, Mika
Rottenberg, Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler, Allison Smith, Ricky
Swallow, David Thorpe, and Jane Wilbraham.
Santa
Barbara Museum of Art
July
2 – September 22, 2013