- How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

- Practice, practice, practice.

This exhibition takes the punchline of a joke as its starting point, as the included artists each uniquely address some aspect of "practice." Works in the show exemplify a wide range of artmaking approaches, from literally employing practice in the development and refinement of a final form (or foregoing any sense of a final form altogether) to thematic considerations of practice, or through processes such as repetition, imitation, comedic structuring, or other maneuvers which challenge or drastically alter their own given realities.

Artists will include:
Sharon Hayes, Alex Hubbard, Joanna Malinowska, Ray Mortenson, Jim
O'Rourke, Stuart Sherman and Tony Tasset, among many others.

Michael Smith is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Austin. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the
University of Texas, Austin and recently was the subject of a major
retrospective entitled Mike's World at the Blanton Museum which
traveled to The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Jay Sanders is a curator, writer and Gallery Director at Greene Naftali, New York.

This is the second time Michael and Jay are working together in a
curatorial endeavor.

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PHOTO CREDITS:

Ray Mortenson
Untitled (10-19-3-25)
1983
Gelatin silver print
Photo courtesy of: Janet Borden, Inc., NYC