P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave
718.784.2084
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Marepe, Auréolas (Halo), Courtesy of the artist, Anton Kern Gallery, and Galeria Luisa Strina, Photo credit: Adam Reich, © Anton Kern Gallery
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Oct 19, 2008 – Jan 26, 2009
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Thursdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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- Price
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$5 suggested donation
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In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The sculptors and mixed-media artists included in NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith work in various folk-art traditions, remixing found objects and readymades to make religious talismans. With piano keys and model boats, Radcliffe Bailey re-envisions the middle passage; David Hammons finds beauty and meaning in the malt-liquor bottles discarded by Harlem-area drunks; and newcomer Brian Jungen appropriates golf bags to create two totemic poles devoted to the religion of professional athletics — after all, aren't stadiums the original mega-churches?
