Authors: Zoe Elwood
Mentors: Jason Lanegan
Insitution: Utah Valley University
Modern and contemporary ideology regarding art curatorial work challenges historical assumptions contributed to ‘the Gallery Space’. Beyond the understanding that the Gallery Space functions in largely aesthetic and/or commercial capacities, relevant scholarship proposes the curation of viewership experience, alongside art, as what ascribes its innovative value. In order to open an exhibition that successfully and meaningfully engages with its audience, the artist curator must research this potentiality of the Gallery Space: its direct correlation to viewership experience and, through that relationship, its capacity to function as an art medium in its own right.