San Francisco-based artist Josh Greene will be the second artist in residence for the Social Studies initiative of the ASUArt Museum, an exhibition series in which the Museum turns over a complete gallery to an artist to explore their social interactive approach.

The artist residencies of the Social Studies initiative are an attempt to open the creative process, making the human factor relevant beyond didactic labels and documentation, creating actual relationships through artistic practice. This is a unifying theme throughout Greene’s past projects. Often using the source of labor, work and play, Greene has developed such projects as Service-Works, which provides a monthly project grant to individuals, the amount of each month's grant determined by how much money he earns as a waiter on a specific night in a fine-dining restaurant in San Francisco; Unlicensed Therapist which consisted of creating a venue dedicated to conversation; Luncheon, a weekly luncheon prepared for the administrators of an alternative art space in San Francisco; and Sophie Calle's Bed, in which the artist wrote to artist Sophie Calle and asked to borrow her bed to help him through a break-up process.

More details on Greene’s Social Studies project can be found online at:
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/joshgreene

2008 -- JOSH GREENE: SOME PARTS MIGHT BE GREATER THAN THE WHOLE
A Social Studies Initiative
Artist in Residence
February 18 through April 4, 2008
PROGRAMS:

Friday, March 21, 11 a.m.
FRIDAY CONVERSATION ON EXHIBITIONS
Josh Greene, Artist
John Spiak, Curator, ASU Art Museum
A gallery talk about the artists’ work and his current
Social Studies project at the museum.

ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, March 28, 7-9 p.m.
Joint reception at both the Main Museum
and Ceramics Research Center
locations for the exhibitions:
CARL ANDRE / TIM HAWKINSON
SUSAN BEINER: SYNTHETIC REALITY
March 28 evening includes NightPerformance
TRANSFIX organized by ASU Theater asst.
professors Rachel Bowditch and Jacob Pinholster

Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787
f. 480.965.5254
e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu
w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/