KIM FIELDING

MediaMerge, New York's newest alternative emerging art association, is joining the Free Biennial to stimulate the public with an exhibition entitled Raw Desire. Organizers hope the public will expose themselves to this exhibit which bares all in an attempt to study and celebrate the common drives that link people.

Raw Desire is being curated by Coralee Lynn Rose, an artist and independent curator who rides the cutting edge in vital, contemporary art. Raw Desire is affiliated not only with the Free Biennial but also with Hunter College's open studios and is the latest permutation in Rose's quest to mate the concepts of the installation piece and the group exhibition. To realize Raw Desire, Rose will transform her studio space into an exhibition space and play host to nine emerging artists creating works by applying strong intimate experience of the viscera rather than more superficial treatment of the merely academic.

Raw Desire will address the following questions: How has the current cultural climate changed the methods and tactics necessary for intimate expression? Has the art making process changed in the current climate? Can valid work be created under inane pretensions? The answers to these questions and other unvarnished truths will be revealed at the Raw Desire exhibition!



ARTISTS

Veronica Cross
Kim Fielding
Joanna Hinskman Hoar
Eric Jiaju Lee
Tricia McLaughlin
Simon Mitchell
Navin Norling
Steven Nyland
Jeff Sonhouse
Duncan Sturrock
Sherry Wong



HOW TO LOCATE

The opening reception for Raw Desire is the 19th of April from 6-11pm on the 4th floor studio #414 or the Hunter College art building located at 450 West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

Simon Mitchell will be performing at the opening reception only.

Inquires contact: mediamerge3@hotmail.com