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JUSTIN BERRY

Brooklyn, New York

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"The best thing about working with the kids of Clinton Middle School was getting feedback. When a classroom of kids is excited about something it is palpable in the air and when they are bored they simply tell you. It is both humbling and inspiring."

JUSTIN BLINDER

Brooklyn, New York

"Vacated uses cache as a narrative tool, showing instead the absence of new establishments that currently exist - accentuating and acting as a sort of reminder of what is not there, either because it is gone or has not yet been built."

SLATER BRADLEY

Brooklyn, New York

"I wanted the kids to be comfortable. I asked them to pick a place that inspired them. Looking at the prints now, I'm struck that the kids are now teenagers, and probably barely resemble themselves in these worlds."

SARI CAREL

Brooklyn, New York

"I am excited to work with youth and adults in the Sunset Park community, using the sculpture and sound installation as a stage-set and a ready-made by which we will layer the work of our collaboration."

EMIL CHOSKI

New York, New York

"My submission to Envision New York 2017 consists of several interactive vignettes attempting to bring economic extremes into stark contrast."

OFRI CNAANI

New York, New York

"Working with More Art was a multi-layered process which gave me the opportunity to be in dialogue with many people, young and old, who study, live, and work in the Meatpacking District. Those conversations were at the heart of this project."

JAY DAVIS

New York, New York

"Instead of creating something solely from their own memory, experience, and aesthetic, the students ended up with something involving a part of each other, taking their own personal stands into a larger communal conversation."

COCO FUSCO

New York, New York

"I really enjoyed the opportunity to think about art's role in the intellectual development of children and my son had a fantastic time performing for the camera. He is very proud of his role in the video!"

ANNA GASKELL

New York, New York

"Micaela Martegani's compassion is infectious. Creating the project with the kids and Micaela has inspired a new direction for my work."

ANTHONY GOICOLEA

New York, New York

"I focused on the idea of the "family unit" as a collective group... In the tradition of black and white portraiture from the turn of the century, I documented the communities and families living in the Chelsea area."

PABLO HELGUERA

New York, New York

"More Art fully understands the intricacies of the artist's process and the flexibility that one must have when one creates a socially engaged art project. They are a model of the experimental spirit and pragmatic approach that should inform public art."

JOAN JONAS

New York, New York

"In performance, from the very beginning, although I was always working against it, there is a sense of loss. A drawing in a performance is there, but it’s not an object. It’s a gesture. An act." - Quote from "Joan Jonas by Karen Schneider" in Bomb #112, 2010

MICHAEL JOO

New York, New York

"Working with the students was a pleasure and a challenge. In many ways, they are the toughest critics. The combination of this honesty with the inimitable connection a kid has to the present is the stuff of contemporary art."

KIMSOOJA

New York, New York

"More Art created such a touching journey with each elderly person at Hudson Guild. Their history, memory, hope, hardship, anger, isolation was captured through their gaze and presence. I will never forget their faces — ever. "

JENNY MARKETOU

Brooklyn, New York

"Working with both middle school students and seniors citizens, has been a wonderful journey which gave me the opportunity to experiment with how the social production of art comes not only through the art market but through the workshop."

TONY OURSLER

New York, New York

"When More Art approached me with the possibility of doing a project with a Chelsea public school students, I thought it was interesting that a school so close to the gallery scene had difficulty with their Arts program. This, of course, is a common issue."

WILLIAM POWHIDA

Brooklyn, New York

"The goal of the building is to provide a stable working environment for artists with a fixed or at least rent stabilized rental structure for the duration of their use of the space."

ANA PRVACKI

Los Angeles, California; Singapore

"I am interested in daily practices, also in the physical manifestation of music, there is something magical and concrete about sound production. I am also really interested in the affect, the emotional pull music has on people."

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Chicago, Illinois

"Students from Hudson Guild and I cooked Iraqi meals based on my mother's recipes, while engaging in discussions about the war. What came forward was the seldom-heard voices of US youth speaking about living in a war culture since 2001."

DREAD SCOTT

Brooklyn, New York

“People yearn for freedom and have repeatedly struggled against oppressive governments, economic, political and social relations. People have taken great risks in a fight for emancipation and have often been battered in the process.”

ANDRES SERRANO

New York, New York

"I photographed many people I found living on the streets. I did it because it occurred to me there were more homeless people than ever in New York City. I want to thank More Art for their support and commitment to creating art that matters."

GARY SIMMONS

New York, New York

"People have very different relationship s to viewing or looking at art, they have assumptions about it, that dream state or fantasy state plays into it..." - Quote from an interview with Tony Oursler

XAVIERA SIMMONS

New York, New York

"It was always a dream for me to work with The Elliot and Fulton Houses communities, and I could not have produced this work without More Art. They fostered this project with passion, perseverance and faith in my process."

FEDERICO SOLMI

Brooklyn, New York

"Since the beginning of my career my goal was to develop a very distinguished style, and to make artworks that somehow could speak directly to the viewer, to make them aware of the contradictions and problems of contemporary society."

NICOLA VERLATO

Brooklyn, New York

"My experience with More Art demonstrates that the combination of the vitality of the so called "low culture' and the structures of the so called "high culture" is still the path to follow. At least for me."

AMY WILSON

Jersey City, New Jersey

"I am envisioning two main bartering spaces to be created within Manhattan, as a way to counteract the growing corporate feel and lack of individualized character that I sense in the city."

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO

New York, New York; Cambridge, MA

"Working with MoreArt, I observed a most impressive commitment from the team to engaging communities for this socio-aesthetic public project in the urban environment. Through such a collaboration, More Art becomes more than art."