Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:16 PM PST
New Brunswick, New Jersey.- The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is pleased to present "Rachel Perry Welty 24/7" on view at the museum from January 28th through July 8th 2012. Two years ago, the artist Rachel Perry Welty famously transformed Facebook into a performance space by updating her status every minute of her waking day while continuing her normal activities. The obsessive, repetitive, and process-based character of her artistic output so evident in "Rachel Is" (2009) animate this mid-career survey. “Rachel Perry Welty takes daily life as her subject,” says Suzanne Delehanty, director of the Zimmerli. “These works raise questions about how we live today, whether it be to comment on the effects of consumerism, suburban living, and information overload or to point to the underlying anxiety at the heart of American popular culture.” 24/7 features 25 works created over the course of the last decade, from documentation of performance and social media projects, photographs, drawings, installations made with fruit stickers and twist ties, sculptures, and collages.
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