Studio Visit

'Studio Visit' will focus on the artist’s studio in the 21st Century, posing questions about how conditions of artistic work are structured, perceived, and valued today. ‘Studio Visit’ foregrounds the studio as material infrastructure and conceptual site. The project centers on the studio not as a private enclave of production, but as part of a larger generative field in which identities are formed, solidarities are tested and economies emerge. Artist studios often flock together in larger buildings and neighborhoods. Community and dialogue—and invitations to visit each other’s studios—often grow out of chance encounters between young artists brought into close proximity by real estate.

Studio Visit also marks a pivotal moment for Performance Space New York, which presents the exhibition as a benefit project supporting its mission and future programming. Since 1980, Performance Space has operated from the East Village as a laboratory for cultural experimentation and artistic dissent.