MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY@ The BRIC Rotunda Gallery

Besides being the stuff dreams--or maybe nightmares--are made of, the recent show at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery, entering its final week, looks at money, or more specifically, currency, as a subject, a medium, and an art material. Curated by Baseera Khan, the show seems to approach money both obliquely and head-on, somewhere between a fetish object and tool of protest, and, with the discussions of Trillions of Dollars spinning into wild abstractions, the focus on currency as object seems an effort to focus more clearly and get a handle on the reality of money, work, and wealth. Catch this show before it closes on March 7, 2009. -- Brooklyn Beat

A NEW DEAL: ART & CURRENCY
Curated by Baseera Khan
January 21 – March 7, 2009

Curator's notes here:

A New Deal, Art and Currency highlights relationships between American presidents and the economy, while observing how these relationships affect art-making. This exhibition takes its name from the social and economic reforms implemented by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s. For better or worse, each president affects the course and stability of the economy, and likewise, the changing economy affects the stability and reputation of each president.

Artists in this exhibition play within the space of literal and imagined artifacts of currency and alternative methods of exchange to push social protest and reconsider material value. The participating artists deal with manipulating and erasing, recreating and exchanging, collecting and commemorating, all to address these intrinsic relationships. Some artists take the stance of philanthropic entrepreneurs who devise new economic systems.

Link here:
http://www.briconline.org/rotunda/exhibitions.asp