Blue Star Contemporary Art Space presents Lonely Are the Brave

Blue Star Contemporary Art Space presents Lonely Are the Brave

Blue Star Contemporary Art Space

Lonely Are the Brave takes its title from the 1962 film, which was based on Edward Abbey's novel The Brave Cowboy. The exhibition features four artists, Jesse Amado, Justin Boyd, Kelly O'Connor and Chris Sauter, which combine to make a state of the union tableau.

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Positively White Cube Revisited

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In many ways, O’Doherty’s point is as simple as it is radical: the gallery space is not a neutral container, but a historical construct. Furthermore, it is an aesthetic object in and of itself. The ideal form of the white cube that modernism developed for the gallery space is inseparable from the artworks exhibited inside it. Indeed, the white cube not only conditions, but also overpowers the artworks themselves in its shift from placing content within a context to making the context itself the content.

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