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December 7, 2007 9:43 am
Struggling artists complain that the art world is more about who you know than what you do. In “Brief Encounters: An Expanding Group Exhibition,” the Caren Golden Fine Art gallery playfully mocks—and exploits—the notion of networking by asking current gallery artists to invite their friends to show at the gallery. What started with four artists represented by Caren Golden and two invited ones expanded into a 31-participant show, and each artist was asked to consider their list of invitees as their personal “generations of successors.” The chain starting with Jean Blackburn, whose “Pottery Barn” pokes fun at cozy design aesthetics, evolved into an electrifyingly colorful Bauhaus-inspired oil-on-canvas distillation of the look she plays with. Just as family trees trace hereditary traits, “Brief Encounters” is as much a portrait of each Caren Golden artist as it is a show curated by the gallery’s roster, and it demonstrates how you’re never more than six degrees apart in New York’s intimate art community.
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