PARSONS FINE ARTS

Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World
curated by Jack McGrathJune 29 – August 18, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, June. 29, 6-8pm

P.P.O.W.

535 West 22nd Street

New York, NY 10011

Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World is a group exhibition featuring works by a range of historical, established, and emerging artists. Since antiquity at least, the notion of “the world on its head” has communicated a sense of extreme crisis or carnivalesque aberration. In an inverted world, normal order is upended. Hierarchies are reversed. Opposites trade places. Values shift. Like a demonstrator waving an upside-down flag, artists frequently invoke this trope to express dissent—a visual sign of protest in unjust times.

Artists include:

Carlos Motta

Aziz + Cucher

Louise Bourgeois

Hans Haacke

Mona Hatoum

Martha Rosler

Man Ray

Adam Putnam

Martha Wilson

Rachel Whiteread

Carolee Schneeman

and others.

The group show represents a range of Parsons faculty past and present, including current Faculty Sammy Cucher and Anthony Aziz (Aziz + Cucher), Parsons AMT Part-Time Faculty Carlos Motta and Adam Putnam, and Jack McGrath, who previously taught in MFA Fine Arts.