September 7 - November 3, 2001
Euridice Arratia, independent curator, New York, NY It is no wonder why sports function with such power within society. Often it is a nation's identity itself that becomes sports' principal narrative. Sports recount compelling stories of individual exploits and collective yearnings, but they also act as a meeting ground where far-ranging issues and notions coexist, sometimes in contradiction. Side by side in the complex field of sports, one finds notions of leisure and entertainment and of bodily regimens and discipline, notions of athletes as symbols of local pride and idealism and as commodities and corporate entities. The artists in SportCult point in their work to the pervasiveness of the sports culture and its richness for metaphorial play. Artists: Grazia Toderi, Satch Hoyt, Elisabetta Benassi, Carlos Amorales, Gustavo Artigas, Michaela Schweiger, Monica de la Torre and Bruce Pearson.
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited Proposal Program]

November 14 - December 22, 2001
Montse Badia, indepenent curator, Barcelona, Spain
The project Revolving Doors: Public Sphere/Private Domain borrows its title from the renowned image by Man Ray that shows the door in Marcel Duchamp's apartment in New York, which opens a space and simultaneously closes another one and its reverse. This images evokes the notion of fluidity and confusion between the realms of the public and the private, that this exhibition sets out to explore. Artists: Vito Acconci, Antoni Abad, Muntadas, Chris Marker, Francis Alys, Christian Jankowsky, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Otto Berchem, Roland Boden, Mark Formanek, Begona Munoz, and Gillian Wearing.

January 4 - January 26, 2002
Kelly Taxter, independent curator, New York, NY
Gain is an exhibition of artists who have subverted the original purpose of certain machines, technology, and objects of everyday use. Using materials intended for industrial applications and assembly-line economy, the artist designs for them a new function: to produce unique sounds and images. These artists are creating work which although derived from the mass-produced is distinctly personal. Gain is testament to the fact that technology is no longer outside the realm of humanity; our modern machines are receptacles for creativity, emotion, and the human body. Four performances will be held during the course of the exhibitions. Artists: Ruth Anderson, Ken Linehan, Annea Lockwood, Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Polli, Scanner and Katarina Matiesek, and Laetitia Sonami.
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited Proposal Program]

January 30 - March 2, 2002
Kerry James Marshall , artist, Chicago, IL
Unjustified - The artworks we encounter are intelligible to us because their existence and function are filtered through the globalized aesthetic ideology of the west, and the formal matrix of the academy. The artists in this exhibition, though culturally diverse, are products of this system. A certain homogeneity results from this, which the topical theme reinforces by focusing inquiry around an over-arching subjectivity. This is the standard academic model. I want to set that aside for a moment. My curatorial strategy was to resist the implied justification for the array of works by not building the curatorial frame as a pre-interpretive device. Free radicals. The possibility of delivering a fascinating experience through the works these artists make, and affecting some surprising juxtapositions, is my aim. With work by: Edgar Arceneaux, Lynn Brown, Tim Fielder, Emily Jacir, Saeri Kiritani, Raj Kolon, Carrie Meyer, Jane Saks, Kwabena Prentice Slaughter, and May Sun

March 6- April 6, 2002
Jean-Hubert Martin Director, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Art that Heals - An exhibition considering connections between beauty and health/healing. Work by Joe Ben, a New Mexico Navajo Indian, who heals people through traditional sandpainting; Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist living in New York, whose work reflects traditional Chinese medicines; and Gera and Gedewon, two Ethiopian scholars who make talismanic paintings to cure their patients.

April 10 - May 11, 2002
Heather Felty, Gallery Director, apexart, New York, NY
The Passions of the Good Citizen will consider the desires implicit in consumer choices and how media and advertising drive those desires. The artists in the exhibition subvert, challenge, and in some cases succumb to the marketing methods so successful in advertising.

May 15 - June 15, 2002
Angeline Scherf, Curator, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Public Key
Does art always have to be explained, documented, mediated, exhibited? Will the artists of a transparent society have to submit to the rules of social control and the logic of marketing? The exhibition seeks to demonstrate that art strategies based on invisible, secret and encrypted proposals are now emerging within the informational paradigm.

June 19 - July 20, 2002
222 - 2002 Summer Program
Two gallerists each selects two artists whom they do not represent and who have not had meaningful exposure in New York for a two week exhibition. This year, artist and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud has selected Chelsea Gallery Directors, Anton Kern and Sara Meltzer to act as curators for the 222 program.
Artists: Laura Carton and Jonathan Grassi and Kalaman and Eli Sudbrack