May 7 Exhibition
May 7 marks the date of the first exhibition. The culminating work of 13 creatives and Urban Designer-Artist Nick Lobdell.
Formed with the aim of exploring the vibrant visual culture that had developed beyond the periphery of traditional arts institutions, composed purely by artists without gallery representation. Running parallel to the exhibition was a living declaration of the aims of Lerium, a commitment to exploring the possibilities of forming new centers of gravity for cultural exchange, outside the social order imposed by a commercialized art circuit.
The exhibition remains the moment of discovery for a living model of Lerium's founding principles: a collective venture into the unfettered potentials discovered in the synthesis of social-happenings, outsider art, and impermanence.
Heralded as the inexorable answer to an agoraphobic commercial-art milieu too hesitant to venture into the unknown. The exhibition searched beyond the rigid scope of what is deemed by the elite cultural vanguard as safe, viable, and worth celebrating. To fulfill this aim, curatorial practice embraced a methodology that resided outside conventionality, bringing to the fold a vision of art as a true reflection of human nature: wild, chaotic, and free.
The exhibition coalesced into a flash-point. A garage on the industrial outskirts of West Palm Beach rapidly transformed into a condenser for the blossoming of new social relations and the discovery of unquantifiable potentials; as what began as an exhibition quickly evolved into a locus for performance and individual expression through participation in spontaneous collective artworks. Bringing to the fold an awareness that the distinction between art and waking life had collapsed into an immanent creative force, universally present.
The first exhibition was at once an examination into what potentials lie dormant outside the norm, and what has always remained hidden in waking life. The secret possibilities primed to be brought to fruition by the dynamic breath of remedial chaos, the precursor to all creation.
May 7 Exhibition
May 7 marks the date of the first exhibition. The culminating work of 13 creatives and Urban Designer-Artist Nick Lobdell.
Formed with the aim of exploring the vibrant visual culture that had developed beyond the periphery of traditional arts institutions, composed purely by artists without gallery representation. Running parallel to the exhibition was a living declaration of the aims of Lerium, a commitment to exploring the possibilities of forming new centers of gravity for cultural exchange, outside the social order imposed by a commercialized art circuit.
The exhibition remains the moment of discovery for a living model of Lerium's founding principles: a collective venture into the unfettered potentials discovered in the synthesis of social-happenings, outsider art, and impermanence.
Heralded as the inexorable answer to an agoraphobic commercial-art milieu too hesitant to venture into the unknown. The exhibition searched beyond the rigid scope of what is deemed by the elite cultural vanguard as safe, viable, and worth celebrating. To fulfill this aim, curatorial practice embraced a methodology that resided outside conventionality, bringing to the fold a vision of art as a true reflection of human nature: wild, chaotic, and free.
The exhibition coalesced into a flash-point. A garage on the industrial outskirts of West Palm Beach rapidly transformed into a condenser for the blossoming of new social relations and the discovery of unquantifiable potentials; as what began as an exhibition quickly evolved into a locus for performance and individual expression through participation in spontaneous collective artworks. Bringing to the fold an awareness that the distinction between art and waking life had collapsed into an immanent creative force, universally present.
The first exhibition was at once an examination into what potentials lie dormant outside the norm, and what has always remained hidden in waking life. The secret possibilities primed to be brought to fruition by the dynamic breath of remedial chaos, the precursor to all creation.