Monday, December 7, 2015
8 – 9:30 am
Think Coffee, Union Square, 123 4th Ave, NYC

A breakfast salon for the 21st century that takes place in the early hours of the day at Think Coffee, Union Square, hosted by the Jewish Museum.

Artist Adam McEwen discusses his recent projects with Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Jewish Museum.

Born in London, United Kingdom in 1965, Adam McEwen currently lives and works in New York. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing obituaries of living subjects such as Bill Clinton and Jeff Koons, highlighting the blurred line between history and fiction. He is known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the bombing of German cities in the Second World War, and for machined graphite sculptures of banal objects such as a water cooler or an air conditioner. His repurposing of the over-familiar creates momentary ruptures, which in the words of one writer, “jolt us temporarily out of our indifference, owing to over-exposure, toward the signs that dominate our daily lives.”
 
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Coffee and conversation are free!