Whitney Vangrin is living and working in New York and is pleased to announce the opening of 1to1NY, an artist-run project, exhibition, and events space in NYC. Their main concern is contemporary conceptual stances within a social context; an attitude of resistance that is actively pleasurable. They work with film, video, drawings, painting, sculpture, and performance, in tandem with frequent event. She co-founded the space with fellow artists Jarrett Earnest, Leigha Mason and Alex Sloan.
The art that goes on in most high schools is usually relatively skill-based. At Oxbow, there is more emphasis on looking and seeing and more critical thinking about what you are doing, the human connection, that personal element. Through art you can begin to understand yourself better. That may be the biggest eye-opener for students. It is almost a preview of college. Get out of the mechanical factory high school education and get into something open, new, and invigorating in a small environment.
— Bill Barrett, Former Oxbow Board Member, Former Executive Director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)
Oxbow opened me up to what was out there in the world to go out and grab, and gave me so much that I take with me everywhere I go, with everything I do.
— Nina Palomba, Spring 2008
At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind and because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.
— Charles Altieri, Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
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