Residency Unlimited announces the 2023 NYC-Based Artists-in-Residence Brooklyn, New York, NY, March 27, 2023: Residency Unlimited (RU) is pleased to announce the 2023 NYC-Based Artist Residents. Please join us in welcoming Abang-guard (Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug), Tatiana Arocha, Miatta Kawinzi and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow to RU! The five NYC-based artists submitted applications to an open
M 2 3 opens an exhibition of works by Bat-Ami Rivlin
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.-M 2 3 is presenting No Can Do - an exhibition of recent work by Bat-Ami Rivlin. No Can Do is on view 12 February through 21 March 2021.
Re-mesh sheets, foam, zip ties, felt, wood plank. Metal gate, yellow foam, duct tape. Wire, spring. Bat-Ami Rivlins sculptures are titled with industrial incantations, lists of materials that conjure larger systems if only to be released from their terms. While these materials are all described as found, some could plausibly have been found together, like the gate of a chain link fence jutting out from the wall that has been softened by the addition of foam padding at hip-height, as if by a worker who had bumped into its lock or latch one too many times. All of these objects were, in fact, previously used or cast off. Yet here, moved off the construction site or out of the factory or beyond the institution, the materials new arrangements and function