FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Andy Johnson, Director
gallery102@gwu.edu
RAT NEST
MARCH 4 - MARCH 18, 2019
Image Credit: Dan Winter
WASHINGTON DC — Red Currant was founded in 2018 by an artist who wanted to create better, up-to-date, and cutting-edge tools and conceptual devices for artists and beyond. Working in an exoteric, open source manner, Red Currant creates solutions for problems that range from our simple art-making troubles to more complex interconnectivity issues.
Rat Nest, Dan Winter’s MFA thesis exhibition, will showcase a tangle of projects that summate to metamorphose Red Currant’s guiding principles into physical and interactive forms. Viewers will be invited to become involved in "The Underground Art Market,” get abducted by extraterrestrial beings, and receive a Vibe Ring (first 50 people) at the opening reception to activate with other souls during a live DJ set.
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PROGRAMS & EVENTS
- Friday, March 8, 2019 // 6:00-8:00 pm // Live DJ Set 7:15-8:00 pm- Join us for the opening reception of Dan Winter's MFA Thesis. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public; all are welcome to attend. To RSVP, click here.
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ARTIST
Dan Winter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work probes the human connection through conceptual devices and alternative modes of engineering for art-making applications under his art practice, Red Currant. By structuring his practice as an art/tech company, Winter can experiment extensively on projects that aid in art making, create exoteric value, and most importantly, bring humans together. Winter is natively a ‘Yinzer’ from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he received his BFA in Photography from Point Park University. He is currently attending George Washington University for his MFA.
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Gallery 102
Gallery 102 and the Student Exhibitions Committee (SEC) is committed to the exhibiting of contemporary art, including work from GW & Corcoran students, DC-area artists, and nationally recognized artists of all medium. The SEC consists of GW & Corcoran students -- undergraduate and graduate, majors and non-majors, artists and art historians -- who both develop innovative, original, and thought-provoking exhibitions throughout GW's campus and invite a select group of guest curators to present exhibitions each semester. The gallery provides practical curatorial experience to the student body. Students have the opportunity to exhibit work, curate shows, and install exhibitions.
