BUSINESS AS USUAL
em>Business as Usual explores the complex intersection of art and commerce over the past decade. The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and curated by Jacob Proctor, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
DECEMBER 12 – DECEMBER 28, 2008
Business as Usual explores the complex intersection of art and commerce over the past decade. Both individually and collectively, the artists featured in the exhibition — Bernadette Corporation, Guyton\Walker, Josephine Meckseper, Carey Young, and Sislej Xhafa — explore the role and function of art in a culture increasingly dominated by the dictates of the market, both artistic and otherwise.
Business as Usual is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and curated by Jacob Proctor, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, which will reopen to the public in Spring 2009 following a $41.9 million expansion and renovation project. Proctor is founding curator of UMMA Projects, a new series of exhibitions and publications focusing on emerging artists. Upcoming UMMA Projectsinclude Walead Beshty, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Heather Rowe, Cory Arcangel, and Simon Dybbroe Moller, among others.
Proctor is also currently organizing the first North American retrospective of seminal conceptual artist (and Michigan native) Douglas Huebler, who passed away in 1997. Prior to joining UMMA in late 2007, Proctor spent three years at the Harvard University Art Museums while pursuing his PhD in History of Art and Architecture. His most recent exhibition, Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, was presented to critical acclaim in early 2007 at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum. Between Object and Event, a volume of essays drawn from a symposium Proctor organized in conjunction with the exhibition, is forthcoming.
