Whitney Museum opens "Flatlands" exhibit featuring emerging artists

PanARMENIAN.Net - An exhibition featuring the work of emerging artists has gone on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the first half of 2016. This show examines both off-kilter and stagey approaches to representation as a means of exploring pressing social issues.

According to Art Daily, the exhibition, Flatlands, highlights recent paintings that provoke a sense of reality as illusion or subjective construction. It runs from January 14 through April 17, 2016, in the John R. Eckel Jr. Foundation Gallery on the first floor, which is free to the public.

"Since its founding, the Whitney has been a pioneering advocate of young artists and a vital testing ground for new tendencies in art,” said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney’s Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. “In our downtown home, we’re committed to reenergizing this important strand of our program, which we recently relaunched with the first American solo shows of Jared Madere and Rachel Rose, as well as our New Theater residency and billboard installation by Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Flatlands and Mirror Cells will mark the museum debuts for several artists, and will be followed by the premiere of a video installation by Sophia Al-Maria in her first museum solo show in the country. These exhibitions demonstrate that we want to introduce not only new talents but new frameworks for thinking about contemporary art.”