SUGGESTIVISM NYC
Curated by Nathan Spoor
Group Exhibition
May 10 - June 30, 2012
Bold Hype gallery presents the summer group exhibition, Suggestivism NYC.
This exhibit, curated by Nathan Spoor, features 43 of the new contemporary
art scene's most talented and intriguing artists. The concept of Suggestivism,
says Spoor, does not center around claiming a title for giving any movement
a name, but for introducing a common creative thread amongst several
disparate and unique voices within the modern art world.
Spoor first engaged the concept and usage of the term, "Suggestivism",
during his graduate school days to conceptualize his vibrant and engaging
style of work. Once the internet gained popularity and more thorough searches
could be made of scanned books, Spoor made the discovery that art historian
Sadakichi Hartmann has actually used the term 'suggestivism' in his critical
texts to certify the modern ideal of "an art that is possibly more than
it seems, or possibly an art that is not what it seems (as stated in by Jane
Calhoun Weaver in the introduction to Hartmann's influential Critical Modernist:
Collected Art Writings) . In these writings Hartmann stated that he saw the
works of some influential artists and writers from the late 1800's and early
1900's such as Edgar Allen Poe or Georges Seurat as being suggestivist. As
California State University Fullerton's acting director Mike McGee says in
the forward to the book, Suggestivism: "Indeed, there are a number of
similarities between Hartmann's suggestivists and the artists Spoor claims
under his contemporary suggestivist umbrella. one of the most notable parallels
is the relationship of these two groups of artists to the prevailing aesthetic
tides of their respective times."
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