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The culmination of a year-long curatorial project by FIT's (Fashion Institute of Technology) Art Market Master of Arts program, "Impossibly Familiar" is a group exhibition featuring works by Antenna Design, assume vivid astro focus, Ragna Berlin, Cui Fei, Ivan Navarro, Brandon Neubauer, Aurora Robson and Zbig Rybczynski. Strategically curated to encourage viewers to reconsider the impossible and challenge our perceptions of the future, the show brings together an idiosyncratic bunch of artists and designers.
Be sure to look out for Aurora Robson's Jungle Series—playful and intricate sculptures constructed from discarded plastic (above left). Also, the always interesting Antenna Design will be exhibiting Shrink Bench, a proposal for a New York City public art project that freely dispenses psychotherapy (above right).
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Impossibly Familiar
Opening reception: Thursday, 26 April 2007, 6pm–8pm
26 April-19 May 2007
Art Gotham
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