October – November 2009
88 Greenwich Street
New York City
Set in the windows of a vacant retail space adjacent to the rebuilding site of the World Trade Center, Regeneration includes work by Hillary Harnischfeger, Kim Krans, and Cordy Ryman. Each artist explores material and themes of layering, rebuilding and growth, addressing through formal process, artistic purpose, or content, the idea of building upon something in order to recreate and reform. Countering contemporary artistic trends stressing the fragmented and un-monumental, these artists engage in a regenerative process that builds up, rather than breaks down, in their artworks. Importantly, each artist also incorporates and references aspects of nature, whose inherent tendency is towards re-growth, repair, and healing. This installation represents a direct connection between the present ongoing recovery and rebuilding occurring nearby, and our collective memory of destruction wrought in the attacks on September 11, 2002.
This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Downtown Alliance.
- Artist Bios: Hillary Harnischfeger, Kim Krans, Cordy Ryman
- Opening Photos & Postcard