Acquisition & Captital

By: Reid R. Radcliffe & R. Alan Wight

January 2012

The curators of “Huxy” bring you “Acquisition,” an auto ethnographic Venture in the Capitalization of Art that explores:

“Acquisition” • Portfolio • Valuation • Market • Materialization • Assets • Productions • Reproductions • Liquidity • Utility • Viability • Theft • Consolidation • Black Market • Ethnographical 

Buy An Hour

December 2011

Also known as the hedgeapple, the osage-orange fruit is a bumpy pale green ball with an outer skin made up of a numerous small drupes. Osage was introduced to the southeast via Oklahoma, before the era of readymade fencing, to establish hedgerow borders for cattle fields in the recently clear cut Ohio Valley. Since then, the plant has taken over as dense undergrowth in many forests throughout the region, producing a grapefruit-sized bright green fruit that seeds in the Fall.  Contained inside these small pods is a milky latex fluid.    

Since graduating from East Jessamine Middle School in the late 90s, Jacob Isenhour and Will Tucker have maintained a conversation about their artistic research. With a common concern for how labor conditions and production time dominate environment and energy relations, these artists look for ideas and potentials that outfall property lines. 

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Phrenological Makeover

November 2011

For our first exhibit at our new location, we decided to externalize thoughts in the most literal of ways - by transforming the gallery into a representation of the brain, using a phrenology map (the dead science of figuring out why people do certain things) as our guide. This brain showcase covered the brain sections: Domestic, Animal, Morals, Aspiring, Self Perfecting, Perceptives, and Reflectives and all the little tiny subsections that go along with them.

Artists included:
Brent Lashley
Holly Streekstra
Dávid Adamkó
Liz Hardy
Jennifer Jolley
devilmoon
Caitlin Robinson
Rus Barbour
Kendon Luscher
Michael Molloy
Brian Kramer
Marc DePaul
Candice Van Loveren Geis
Alex Walp
Leif Fairfield

Past Exhibits