Curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes
Co-curated by Blanca de la Torre
February 1st – 21st 2016
February 20th @ 8-10PM | Live from South Carolina
Participating Artists:
Mac Premo + Duke Riley | Louise Fishman | Regina Jose Galindo
Kyle Goen | Federico Solmi | Ivan Navarro | Cris Gianakos | James Hyde
Jaishri Abichandani | Conrad Atkinson | Isaac Aden
ANVIL Collective | Luis Alonzo Barkigia | Majeed Benteeha
Terry Berkowitz | Hans Breder | The Blue Noses | Alberto Borea
Robert Boyd | Juanli Carrion | Paolo Cirio | Tony Conway | Joseph DeLappe
Dread Scott | Eduardo Gil | Mathew Grenier | Glenn Goldberg
Pablo Helguera | Richard Humann | Samuel Jablon
Juan Lazaro + Jevijoe Vitug | Alexander Kosolapov | Teresa Margolles
Ferran Martin | Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo | Mary Mattingly
Yusef Merhi | Igor Molochevski | Robert Priseman | Fariden Sakhaeifar | PS3*
Joaquin Segura | Vitaly Komar | Edgar Serrano | Elliott Sharp
Wolodymyr Starosolsky | Quintin Rivera Toro | Terreform ONE | Wojtek Ulrich
Ruben Verdu | Roberto Visani | Johan Wahlstrom | Jordan Weber | Roger Welch
Hans Winkler | Irena Lagator Pejovic | Antonio De La Rosa |Micha Das Bach
Luis Alonzo Barkigia | Aliana & Jeff Bliumis | Carla Gannis | Jamie Martinez
Jean Pierre Muller | Ben Sakoguchi | Khaled Jarrar | Lee Wells | Marshall and Ligorano Reese and more
#makeamericagreatagain is a group exhibition of diverse media that will run during February and coincide with the initial Democratic and Republican primaries. The exhibition’s title is culled verbatim from Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Appropriation does not stop there, however, for #makeamericagreatagain thematically rubs up against the demagoguery prevalent in the current American social and political landscape and rhetoric espoused by primary candidates to engender fear in the American public.
The appropriated hashtag also serves as curatorial device to further expand the exhibition into social media. The exhibition-viewing public and those not physically present to see the show, will be asked to upload images or texts with the hashtag of #makamericagreatgain onto Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. These contributions will become part of the exhibition and will be interventions into existing social media sites with the same hashtag.
Press
WhiteHot Magazine, #makeamericagreatagain curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes, by Gregory De La Haba
Newsweek, NYC Art Exhibit Responds to ‘2016 Presidential Election Charade’, by Stav Ziv
Bedford + Bowery, Watch This Trump Piñata Get Bashed at WhiteBox’s #Makeamericagreatagain Show, by Kavitha Surana
Artefuse, #MAKEAMERICAGREATAGAIN Takes on Politics at Whitebox, by Atif A K
Washington Square News, Political Art Gallery Uses Satire to #makeamericagreatagain , by Hannah Starke