"Odie Rynell Cash: A Shift in the Fabric"
2005-04-22 until 2005-05-14
Polvo Art Studio
Chicago, IL, USA United States of America

At Polvo, Odie Rynell Cash will show selections from a new body of work in an exhibition titled ‘a shift in the fabric'. Cash installs objects, drawings, videos and digital images questioning recent conventional thinking of national surroundings and ideas about reformulation, the use of religion, patriotism and "assisted" selfimprovement. The basic concept for the exhibit is the relationship between personal ideas/beliefs and social standards in addition to questioning current experiences at face value as out of the ordinary circumstances in the context of the everyday.

Odie Rynell Cash (b. 1969/Detroit) works in the mediums of video, digital imagery, installation/interventions, collecting/drawing and actions in public. His work is concerned with a variety of issues from the political to the mundane, simplicity, repetition and anticipation. His 2005 schedule includes a 3 week performance residency with Skaftfell Arts Center, Seyoisfjörour, Iceland (Aug.) and a four (4) week residency with Factor44, Antwerp, Belgium, (Sept). Previously he has been included in international exhibitions such as Co-ordinates of the Supersensible at High Street Projects (New Zealand), Text Associations (solo) Factor44 (Antwerp, Belgium), eKsperim[E]nto Film and Video Festival, (Manila, Philippines), kaBOOM, The Museum of New Art (Detroit), The Drawing Show, UnitB Gallery (Chicago) and was selected for the 2004-2006 Drawing Centers Viewing Program (New York). Cash is also an independent curator of work dealing with social issues and/or the examination of experimental practices.

Along with this show, Detroit artist DECAY will do a mini-exhibit and the Society for the Representation of Society will do a mini-installation.

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