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HUNG JURY February 25 - March 16, 2012 225 Friend Street, Boston, MA 02114 Opening Reception: Sat, Feb. 25, 6-9 pm Hours:  Fri: 3-6 pm,  Sat, Sun: 12-6 pm Closing Party: Friday, Mar.16, 7 pm with musical guest TAJ

        In the late '50's, when 12 Angry Men was released, it was an implicit assumption of the law that a congregation of only men could represent an unbiased swath of society. HUNG JURY seeks to re-examine the notion of bias, gender, and a spectrum of representative views in the realm of art by recreating these anachronistic circumstances within the context of an exhibition.  In the original story of 12 Angry Men, a close re-examination of the evidence reveals that the facts of the trial were not as clear as they appeared at first glance; HUNG JURY seeks to re-examine the composition of the jury itself and to investigate the ways in which the spectrum of maleness as an implicit point of view (bias) has changed and expanded over the last 50 years.  Settling on an externalized parameter of "men" rather than on an overtly content-based "theme" allows the overall content / sensibility of the exhibition to dictated by the (implicitly "female") biases of the show's curator.



HUNG JURY is
Ryan Arthurs
Dan Boardman
Kyle Bowen
Jim Cambronne
Sean Downey
Nate Ethier
Alfredo Gisholt
Carlos Jiménez Cahua
Steve Locke
Doug Morris
Nick Shindell
Rob Smith


About the Curator
Susan Metrican is an artist living in Boston.  To date, her work includes painting, sculpture, and video.  She is currently a 2012 MFA Candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. 



Thank you to everyone who backed this project on Kickstarter!  



225 Friend Street, Boston, MA 02114