Optica is one of the first projects of its kind and, at the same time, is among the contemporary art events which attracts the most media attention.
This initiative, organized by the Asociación Cultural Colectivo Interferencias, offers a forum for interchange and promotion that encourages an encounter with visual experimentation at an international level. To experiment means to go in search of the unknown. Videoart breaks established precepts, conferring prominence on the essence of film: light, sound and movement, in some cases resulting in pure abstraction. That’s why it’s one of the most natural and genuine forms of audio-visual culture, to the degree that it demands a subjective perception of space-time, through the technology of the electronic image.

Gallery Hours Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm

531 West 25th St, Ground 10
New York, NY 10001

For more information about this group exhibition
please contact Slag Gallery, Özkan Cangüven,
Email: ozkan@slaggallery.com or Tel: 212.967.9818

For more information about the artist, please email: info@grimanesaamoros.com

Each summer, Artspace’s Summer Artist-in-Residence program provides an established artist with a brief studio opportunity to work on a project of his or her choosing. Artists are selected from a competitive national pool of applicants. Throughout the residency, artists interact with the public in an effort to fulfill Artspace’s mission of making the creative process accessible. In addition to working in an open-studio environment, a Meet the Artist evening is organized along with a public slide lecture. The Summer Artist-in-Residence also teaches two classes or workshops (one for youths and one for adults) in conjunction with Artspace’s Summer Arts Program. Following the residency, in Gallery one, the resident presents an exhibition that is a culmination of the artist’s studio work during the summer.

This summer join us in celebrating the past nine years of the Summer Artist-in-Residence Program. Reconsidered features the work of Grimanesa Amorós, Laura Berman, Eileen Doktorski, Ann Marie Kennedy, IlaSahai Prouty, Carrie Scanga, Anthony Ulinski, and Sherri Wood.