Friday, July 07, 2006

DRIFT is an annual, site-specific exhibition that moves to a new location every year. DRIFT characterizes the impermanence and site-specificity of the artworks as well as the adaptive qualities of the participating artists. This year's exhibition will take place at the Bronx River Art Center in November and will include over 23 emerging artists.

DRIFT was first conceived in the winter of 2002 as a one-day exhibition on the Jersey Shore. The Atlantic Ocean inspired temporary works by twelve artists from the greater New York City area. Fluxus artist, Geoffrey Hendricks,punctuated the day with a famous headstand on a pile of ocean boulders. In 2003 the show moved to a former home of Buckminster Fuller, River Run Farm in New Jersey. Artists responded to thirty acres of pastoral/river landscapes and the cultural history of the farm, which was part of the Underground Railroad in the early 1800ís.

In 2004 DRIFT took place at Valentino Pier Park, located on the Buttermilk Channel in Red Hook Brooklyn. The exhibition featured over 20 artists working in video, painting, sculpture, installation and sound. Red Hook was one of the first areas in Brooklyn to be settled by Algonquian tribes and later by the Dutch. The surrounding landscape was named for its red clay soil and hook shaped peninsula. Today, the view from Valentino Pier includes: The Statue of Liberty, The Verrazano Bridge, and Lower Manhattan.

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