Bruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, March 29 through May 24, 2019
March 30, 2019: An exhibition by Bruce High Quality foundation opened at ACA Galleries, 520 West 29th Street in the Chelsea Gallery District. The exhibition features works by the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio Vasari, Marcel DuChamp, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Chaim Soutine, Rudolf Steiner, and Joseph Cornell.
In 1865 Rudolf Clausius said, The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.” 53 years later Theodore Parker said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” So vis-a-vis art history, your guess is as good as ours. — The Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Bruce High Quality Foundation is a Brooklyn-based artist group whose production includes subversive and often humorous art installations, live performance, film, and social sculpture. Taking its name from the fictional artist Bruce High Quality, who supposedly perished on September 11, 2001, the Foundation views 9/11 as a seminal moment in contemporary history; the ensuing wars and economic and cultural shifts are recurring concerns. Through its writings, original works of art, and free, unaccredited art school (The Bruce High Quality Foundation University), it attempts to democratize relationships between artist and public. The Foundation’s work often combines past, present, and future, blending fact and fiction in an attempt to encourage and reframe cultural discourse and, in its own words, to “invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man’s desiring.”
ACA Galleries is one of the earliest champions of American art in New York City, founded in 1932. For over 80 years, the American Contemporary Art Galleries (ACA) have supported artists in diverse disciplines with singular points of view. Since its inception, the gallery has presented over 800 exhibitions and published over 400 books and catalogues. ACA continues this tradition of featuring artists whose talent transcends nationality, race or gender by presenting exhibitions, organizing traveling exhibitions and working closely with museums and private collectors to build collections.
ACA Galleries
529 West 20th Street
New York City, Ny 10011
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Gallery Hours:Tuesday through Saturday
11am to 6pm
Sunday and Monday, Open by Appointment Only. +1 (212) 206 8080
Oil on canvas 63 x 42 in.
18 x 36 in.
