The CI team is glad to inform that Frank Shifreen, who works with us together in the cultureinside.com project, is currently in a show at Harvard called Speech Acts: Art Responding to Language, Rhetoric and Politics-open till May 1 at Lehman Hall Harvard University, directly on Harvard Square in Cambridge MA.

Hours are 9-11 monday thru Friday and to 9 on Saturdays and Sundays

Has exhibited paintings, sculpture, print, and video both in New York, the U.S and internationally. He is a well-known curator and organizer of art exhibitions. He is a teacher and is completing a doctoral program in Art and Art Education at Teachers College,Columbia University. His dissertation will be on notions of non-institutional art. He is a member of a coalition to bring artist-centered resources to the web (www.cultureinside.com). The steel sculptures shown began as a collaboration with artist Danny Scheffer.

"Rhetoric is not only language based, but is embodied in the signs, codes, and information that is part of our visual culture. I reflect on that caveat with my varied work in the show; sculpture of talking heads, an installation of a door, that has dualistic, theatrical, argumentative, philosophic symbolism. Recent political posters and paintings are included. The decision to create art is a rhetorical act, positing that art has value and meaning. Art can persuade that speaking out is worth the risk."