Send us a small drawing, Polaroid, or photograph of how you might interpret Buy Art. Not Underwear. -we will start posting them in the gallery.

Buy Art. Not Underwear.

The artists at Ice Cube Gallery, a brand new artists cooperative in Denver, Colorado invite you to comment on the commercial aspect of art-making.

What are the things that bind us together as artists? We disagree on everything. Aesthetics, color, line, value. What is art? What isn’t art? What is good bad ugly? One thing that united this group of artists as we started this cooperative, Ice Cube Gallery, was our desire to make it financially feasible to have this place to create, push, put out installations that get us out of our normal comfort zones.

Oscar Wilde said that when bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. Perhaps this may be true for the fact that most artists are always thinking about how to make the money to pay for the space and materials to make the art.

Andy Warhol said that:

Making money is art
and working is art
and good business
is the best art.

I am not really sure that this is true but, he definitely reflected modern and contemporary reality. It seems as though the only way to make art that gets noticed is to play by the rules of the market.

As we were gearing up for our first group show we noticed this little tidbit in the New York Times that says- According to some economists, rising underwear sales are an indicator of easing recession.

A few of us working on getting the cooperative off the ground started to imagine ourselves in a new piece of art instead of new underwear. Some people want to Photoshop their head onto someone else’s body while holding up their art. Kathy Knaus and I started to think about creating art with our body parts that might wear underwear.

Send us a small drawing, Polaroid, or photograph of how you might interpret Buy Art. Not Underwear. -and we will start posting them in the gallery. No Deadline. We will keep posting them in the gallery as they come in.

Okay- Mail art tries to circumvent the whole commercial aspect but, as usual mail art is now part of the gallery experiece.

Ice Cube Gallery
3320 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
c/ o Theresa A Anderson

Fe-Mail Box would like to invite you to:
participate in a mail art exhibition themed “Where Are You Coming From?” We have accepted regional and international artists to submitting 4” x 6” original work on paper for exhibition and sale. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome. We are accepting submissions until June 5th.

"Where are you coming from?", opens Friday, June 12 as part of the East End Arts District summer art walk, with a public reception from 5 – 9 pm, at anderson’s art box/east end applied arts, 1556 Florence Street, 80010 in Aurora. The exhibition continues through July 8 from noon – 5.30pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Some standout entries include the small and sweet: photographic multi-media, abstract prints, urban figurative drawings, multiple plastic/ fiber arts, expatriate gleanings, and small airbrushed corporate logos. The logos deftly reference the graffiti of the corporate culture. Flipping back mail art to a page before the slick magazines discovered it- the entry, how not to draw a bunny, calls to mind the documentary, how to draw a bunny, on mail art founder Ray Johnson.