The Golden Colonel
As part of its fourth seasonal residency on Governors Island, Flux Factory presents the group exhibition, The Golden Colonel, a speculative retirement home for artists, open from July 12 鈥� August 11, 2024.
There is an unspoken understanding that because being an artist is not a 鈥渞eal鈥� job, but something more like a calling, and because artists often don鈥檛 earn enough money to save for old age, they can鈥檛 retire. They just make art until they die. From July 12 through August 11, 2024, The Golden Colonel explores some of the complexities of artists considering the same choice to retire from their practices as everyone else.
Most people wait until they retire to explore their creativity. The Golden Colonel is a place for people who have already done that. So what comes next? We鈥檝e gathered work by artists ranging in age from their early 20s to their early 80s to reflect on what might lie beyond artmaking, or whether it鈥檚 even possible to stop making art.
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As part of its fourth seasonal residency on Governors Island, Flux Factory presents the group exhibition, The Golden Colonel, a speculative retirement home for artists, open from July 12 鈥� August 11, 2024.
There is an unspoken understanding that because being an artist is not a 鈥渞eal鈥� job, but something more like a calling, and because artists often don鈥檛 earn enough money to save for old age, they can鈥檛 retire. They just make art until they die. From July 12 through August 11, 2024, The Golden Colonel explores some of the complexities of artists considering the same choice to retire from their practices as everyone else.
Most people wait until they retire to explore their creativity. The Golden Colonel is a place for people who have already done that. So what comes next? We鈥檝e gathered work by artists ranging in age from their early 20s to their early 80s to reflect on what might lie beyond artmaking, or whether it鈥檚 even possible to stop making art.
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