M 2 3

Program -

M 2 3 has cultivated a community of young, well informed, astute collectors whose motivation is not celebrity, but philanthropy – motivated by an academic interest in culture, and their own unspoken role in a broad, global conversation. The artists and those that support them - recognize the current moment, embrace historical context, and welcome the inevitable evolution of change.

• The solo exhibition and accompanying text by Jonathan Mildenberg titled The Drowning Dog alludes to concepts related to safety, the home, and ideas of domicile as a metaphor for the body. The Drowning Dog speaks to the current cultural shift away from proven academic standards of aesthetics, science, and truth—resulting in collective insecurity, and a definitive “qualitative crisis.” 

• Karinne Smith’s exhibition Melon Skin included collagen sculptures and rotting melons which spoke to the transience of life, the futility of ephemeral pleasure, and the certainty of death. 

• Bat-Ami Rivlin’s sculptures and assemblages created from repurposed objects extract the component, isolate it, and see what its failure tells us about the larger system to which it belonged. 

• eddy - a current of water or air running contrary to the main current, especially a circular current; a whirlpool; a contrary or circular current (as of thought or policy); speaking to the concept of a ‘vortex’ in which time, space, and reality are suspended, our collective exhibition eddy presented works created during the global pandemic, and cultural awakening following the murder of George Floyd.

• Sean Donovan’s recent exhibition Praxis of Matter speaks to his own activism that is related to the global environmental crisis, and the American denial of mass shootings.

• The two artist exhibition FICCIONES spoke to societal topics, culture, and the history/future of contemporary art - and most likely one of our most popular exhibitions through word-of-mouth enthusiasm, and online interest