The exhibition is called "Proposition Player," for the independent contractor in the gaming industry who is paid by the house to start games.
"Blackness is a highly evocative and animating force in abstract art; many of the participating artists responded to the exhibition as a proposition, a call, and created new pieces for the occasion".
He is known for monochromatic paintings as well as for his clever and provocative installations, such as a display of 11 canvases painted all blue which gestured toward Picasso in the exhibition title: "Monochrome Propositions: Blue Period".
We think of each one of our exhibitions as a proposition about what is important about sculpture at the moment.
Government regulations keep prices in some regions artificially low; in Tamil Nadu, prices have been fixed at a maximum of 120 rupees (about US$1.80) for years, making film production and exhibition there a risky proposition.
Measure F, sponsored by the City Council as a "clarifying" proposition, did not mention convention or exhibition facilities.
Here, caught in the web of the curators Becky Smith and João Ribas's poetic theorizing (this is the third in a series of exhibitions titled "The Mallarmé Propositions"), they're definitely defying malaise and arrogant negativity.
This is only the second time that MoMA's architecture department has committed to mount an exhibition of projects before they had even been designed — a risky proposition, since who knows if the program will produce memorable work?
The exhibition at the Frye explores The Underground Museum as a cultural hub and creative proposition, with paintings by Davis and film installations by Joseph that vividly evoke the beauty and power of life and death, culture and communion.
Exhibitions are temporal and they are about one artist's, or one curator's proposition about what is happening at that moment.
