One of the hallmarks of The Luminary’s curatorial practice is that we seek out work that actively engages with the cultural landscape around us. By presenting work that speaks to shared areas of life, this organizational principle allows anyone an entry point. To the extent that the exhibitions are successful, the audience will find their own questions, thoughts, and concerns played out in the gallery setting. The concept behind this practice is that it opens the art world to intersect with life and gives a new ability for emerging audiences to interact with art.

Our exhibitions have always been thematic. In 2010, we are extending this practice to envelop a yearly theme that will grow over each exhibition to create a narrative arc. We will be curating each exhibition along the larger theme of information: How we generate it. How we manage it. How it manages us. Why we are addicted to it. What it means for how we will structure our lives this year and every year after. Information has never had such a dramatic effect on how we view the world and what we view as possible.

As we launch our 2010 Exhibition Season, Answer Factory, we are excited to announce the four major group exhibitions that frame our season: Old Media/Old News, Cause + Time, Answer Factory, and Future Perfect. In March, we will also be announcing the selections for the installation space, which will open in April and feature openings every other month alongside the major exhibitions.

Old Media/Old News

January-March

This high-profile exhibition brings together six innovative emerging artists working with concepts of news reception, media saturation and the role of the artist as documentarian and mediator of information in our increasingly rapid global news culture.

Cause + Time

May- June

Cause + Time is an exploration into art that responds to its environment, whether through interactivity, social broadcasting, advertising that changes based on the viewer or growth over time. Cause + Time will also feature the first of our public projects launched in conjunction with the exhibition schedule. The project will focus on a moss painting project that will grow over the course of the exhibit on buildings, streets and overpasses across the city.

Answer Factory

August-October

Answer Factory will be a large-scale public project incorporating billboards, text work and yard signs that will culminate in a town hall meeting and group exhibition. The exhibition itself is based around the concept of the enigmatic ways we generate truth, propose answers to unknown questions, and navigate through contradictory information.

Future Perfect

November-December

Future Perfect focuses on a wide variety of future-focused work from data models to hysteric predictions in a fitting end-of-the-year exhibition. As a closing exhibition, Future Perfect brings the theme of information into our projections, conjecturing about what comes next.