Harrell Fletcher Exhibit

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Organized by artist Harrell Fletcher, this exhibition explores the relationship between art and agriculture from a variety of perspectives including historical and current day agricultural imagery, alternative farming projects, and the representation of farm labor.

The exhibition is conceived with allegiances to folk art, outsider art, craft, experimental art and social practice. These allegiances share a kinship with activist art, community art and relational aesthetics and signal a socially engaged return to art practice with a strong representational dimension. This exhibition not only presents an interesting and topical set of works and documentation, but attempts to expand the idea of what can be considered "craft and folk art" by presenting work that in many cases functions outside of the established art world, while at the same time is not typical of received historical ideas of "outsider art."

Participating artists and organizations include John Cerney, Nolan Calisch and Molly Sherman with Farm School, Amy Franceschini with Futurefarmers, Eliza Gregory, Sadie Harmon, National Chavez Center, Joyce Grimm with Pie Ranch, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Natasha Wheat with Project Grow, Jen Delos Reyes, Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and Bernard Zakheim.

–Natasha Boas, MOCFA Curator

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