Hidebound

Alex Bierke Carl D'Alvia Liza Lacroix Liz Naiden Brad Phillips Andy Šlemenda

For its inaugural project, MAW presents Hidebound, the literal clinging to conventions, to explore how contemporary art practices consider the traditional. The digital's impact upon the art world has offered an atemporal utopia where artists can sample limitless styles, materials and motifs creating a new breed of algorithmic art. For Hidebond, the artists selected grapple with the weight of art's long history. These artists unearth their voices through labored, outmoded processes as a means to not only address the past, but also forge new dialogues about the future of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture. They bring to light crucial concerns in a voraciously expanding art market that champions quick consumables. Call us old fashioned. Hidebound comments on the importance of artistic traditions, as material itself, distinguishing art from other facets of visual culture.