Jeffry Mitchell: Unorthodox at The Jewish Museum

This November, the Jewish Museum will present Unorthodox, a large-scale group exhibition featuring over 50 contemporary artists from around the world whose practices mix forms and genres without concern for artistic conventions. Though the artists in Unorthodox come from a wide variety of backgrounds and generations, they are united in their spirit of independence and individuality. Through over 200 works, the exhibition will highlight the importance of iconoclasm and art’s key role in breaking rules and traditions. Numerous works that examine social and political values, religion and humanism, trauma, and identity explore the relationship between the human figure and the modern creative process.

“Unorthodox does not comment on Jewish religious orthodoxy or critique it, but takes its inspiration from the Jewish tradition of dialogue and debate to investigate the impact of unorthodox concepts on orthodox systems. Unorthodox aims to break with a cultural and artistic uniformity that has developed over the last century among artists and museums, proposing a nonconformist engagement with art as a means to disrupt the status quo.”

Jens Hoffmann
Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs

Unorthodox
November 6, 2015 - March 27, 2016
The Jewish Museum
New York, NY

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/unorthodox#

Participating Artists

Margit Anna
Austė
Clayton Bailey
Brian Belott
Meriem Bennani
Adolfo Bernal
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Michael Buthe
Tony Cox
Olga de Amaral
Brian DeGraw
Marie-Louise Ekman
Brenda Fajardo
Christina Forrer
Valeska Gert
Stephen Goodfellow
Zach Harris
Margaret Harrison
Tommy Hartung
Nadira Husain
Jamian Juliano-Villani
Cyrus Kabiru
E’wao Kagoshima
Gülsün Karamustafa
Keiichi Tanaami
Július Koller
Jirí Kovanda
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato
Boris Lurie
Alice Mackler
Abu Bakarr Mansaray
f.marquespenteado
Park McArthur
Birgit Megerle
Jeffry Mitchell
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Masatoshi Naito
Hylton Nel
Zoë Paul
Nick Payne
Christina Ramberg
Bunny Rogers
David Rosenak
Erna Rosenstein
Xanti Schawinsky
Max Schumann
Leang Seckon
Diane Simpson
Philip Smith
Hajime Sorayama
Jeni Spota
Miroslav Tichý
Amikam Toren
Endre Tót
William T. Vollmann