Inaugural Event
Clare Britt at Cosign Projects
On May 3rd, 2009, Cosign Projects in Saint Louis, Missouri, is pleased to present Clare Britt's inaugural flag.
Opening event from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Broken and bruised, I am still number one; First thing first; It's all about me!;
Introducing Cosign-Inaugural Exhibition; Cosign wins award for best new alternative
art space in St Louis; Blue Ribbon; I'm # 1!
“The St. Louis area continues to suffer from an inferiority complex - a feeling that we are just never going to be as great as we think we could be - or as great as we all know we should be.”
--
Rev. Lawrence Biondi,
President of Saint Louis University
and 2005 St. Louis Citizen of the Year
Reflecting upon the idea of ‘firsts’ and with an eye towards imbuing the site with an inspired sense of pride, Britt has constructed a blue ribbon #1 banner. Cosign is especially pleased that this flag challenges the long-documented inferiority complex so often referenced by St. Louis politicians, celebrities, businesspeople, and citizens. In the spirit of celebrating one’s neighborhood, one’s home, and one’s future, Cosign Projects offers up its first project, I'm #1, by Clare Britt of Chicago, Illinois.
Clare Britt has recently shown at Green Lantern, Flatfile Gallery, and Gallery 400 in Chicago, and Golden Belt in Durham, NC. She directed Fraction Workspace in Chicago from 2003 - 2007. Her curatorial work will soon be featured in Artists Run Chicago at the Hyde Park Art Center.
View her website here. CV (pdf).
Artist Bio:
If Clare Britt were a map she would be printed on Chinese paper that was found in a bottle floating in the sea. If she were a meal she would be spicy fried chicken with all the fixins’. If she were a song she’d be a sad song about a happy clown sung by Roy Orbison. If she were a body of water she’d be an inlet swamp slowly meandering out to sea. If she were a story she’d be a tale of magic, desire, despair and intrigue. If she were a Sunday paper comic strip she would be about a dog named Biscuit that never behaves. If she were a bandit she would never stop until she got caught ‘er shot.
