Robert Brush's PATRON WANTED The Crown Street Window Project at Artspace
Do artists need patrons to survive? Robert Brush, a nationally-exhibiting artist, creates conceptual work that reinterprets the familiar and assesses the metaphors and narratives of everyday life. Most recently, his work has questioned the importance of language in the public sphere and has sought to unveil the relationships between art, the individual, and the collective. Patron Wanted, a work of neon, has been shown in various forms in the past: on a pedestal in a pop-up gallery, displayed provocatively in a gift shop, and reinterpreted, in paper form, as an advertisement in an arts magazine. Artspace is thrilled to presentPatron Wanted in our Crown Street window and to join Robert in inviting the viewer to participate in his work and to grapple with the question: what is this?