Works on Paper on Fridges at Harkawik

Artists: Tara Atefi, Betty Bailey, Stefania Batoeva, Michael Berryhill, Isabel Cavenecia, Monika Chlebek, Plum Cloutman, Penny Davenport, Abigail DeVille, Francesca Dolor, Julia, Dzwonkoski, Kayla Ephros, Loren Erdrich, J. A. Feng, Justin Fitzpatrick, Jacques Flechemuller, Ella Rose Flood, Joey Frank, Marlene Frontera, Daisuke Fukunaga, Pippa Garner, Nicholas Grafia, Joe Greer, Karl Haendel, Trulee Hall, Nschotschi Haslinger, Alexa Hawksworth, Mónica Heller, Delphine Hennelly, Mary Herbert, Dmitri Hertz, Sebastián Hidalgo, Miles Huston, Johannes Högbom, Enzo Iwase, Jack Jubb, Bayan Kiwan, Victoria Kosheleva, Robert Kraiss, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Kate Levant, David X. Levine, Santiago Licata, Yimiao Liu, Tala Madani, Wolfgang Matuschek, Lina McGinn, Kian McKeown, Ted Mineo, Kim Neudorf, Marina Pinsky, Max Popov, Matt Reiner, Owen Rival, Rachel Rosheger, Samantha Roth, Sóla Saar, Leonel Salguero, Isa Schieche, Emma Rose Schwartz, Mikołaj Sobczak, Tsai-Ling Tseng, Corina Dorrego Urdaneta, Jacques Louis Vidal, Erica Vincenzi, Katarina Janečková Walshe, Kalina Winters, Emily Rose Wright, Shai Yehezkelli

Exhibition title: Works on Paper on Fridges

Venue: Harkawik, New York, US

Date: August 12 – September 6, 2022

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Harkawik, New York

Works on Paper on Fridges is an international survey of artworks made on paper substrate—gouaches, ballpoint pen drawings, oil on cotton rag, collages, prints, charcoal drawings, photograms, rubbings, sketches in colored pencil, oilstick, flashe on cardboard, etc—hung with magnets on identical brand new full size Whirlpool refrigerators temporarily installed in our New York gallery for the duration of the show. 99 artworks by 66 artists from 33 countries on 22 fridges: Works on Paper on Fridges looks at the many conflicting modalities of the paper artwork: preparatory drawing; site of discovery; fragile, ephemeral thing to be protected; castoff, shy notebook page; primary, time honored support, monument to all that can happen in the space of a single millimeter. The inclusion of domestic appliances identifies the gallery as a site for the consideration of networks of exchange and modulation, and points to the delicate balance of functional systems that create habitability in an urban environment. Using them to display small artworks furthermore speaks to the notion of living with art, and invites participating artists to meditate equally on the relationship between the home, studio, and city, as the one between the mind and the hand.