THANK YOU PAINTINGS EXCHANGE 2014-2015 — alina Bliumis / jeff Bliumis

Installation view, Thank You Paintings Exchange, Denny Gallery, New York 2014

Exchange 1, Thank You For Your Poem with Pavel Lembersky at Denny Gallery, New York on July 31, 2014

Exchange 2, Thank You For Your Email with Robin Lipson at Denny Gallery, New York on August 11, 2014

Exchange 3, Thank You For Your Advice with Louise Ingalls Sturges at Denny Gallery, New York on August 29, 2014

Exchange 4, Thank You For Your Prayers with Boris and Veronika Ardemasova at Denny Gallery, New York on August 29, 2014

Exchange 5, Thank You For Your Time with Francis Greenburger at 55 Fifth Avenue, New York on September 5, 2014

Exchange 6, Thank You For Your Hug with Francis Greenburger at 55 Fifth Avenue, New York on September 5, 2014

Exchange 7, Thank You For Your Lesson with Francis Greenburger at Greenburger Associates, New York (lesson with Stefanie Diaz) on September 5, 2014

Exchange 8, Thank You For Your Bread with Svetlana Katz at Denny Gallery, New York on September 7, 2014

Exchange 9, Thank You For Your Help with Arya, Nazlie and Michael at Franklin Street, New York on October 31, 2014

Exchange 10, Thank You For Your Thoughts with Arya, Nazlie and Michael at Washington Street, New York on October 31, 2014

Exchange 11, Thank You For Your Tweet with Ignacio Lopez-Beguiristain at Spring Break Art Show, Moynihan Station, New York on March 6, 2015

Exchange 14, Thank You for Your Flowers with Serena Qiu at Washington Street, New York on November 15, 2015

Exchange 15, Thank You For Your Pants exchange between artists in Andes, NY on December 22, 2015

THANK YOU PAINTINGS EXCHANGE

Thank You Paintings Exchange initiates a series of material, social, gestural, intellectual and monetary exchanges between artist and collector.

The series of fifteen paintings depict scenes of everyday life: a woman sitting on a deserted beach, children playing, cars parked in front of a suburban home, etc. Each painting has the text, “Thank You For Your...” painted on it, completed with words such as “Email,” “Poem,” “Kiss,” “Prayers,” “Dance,” “Pants,” “Thoughts.”

Sometimes a viewer might detect a relationship between the text and the subject of the painting, but there is no deliberate, direct relationship. The
painting points toward the value of the painting as an artwork, while the text points toward the exchange the artists propose to initiate with the collector.

In order to acquire a painting, collector participated in the exchange the artists have proposed, giving the artists the object, gesture, concept, etc. for which the painting thanks them, in addition to making a flat $1,000 financial transaction. The interactions between artists and buyers were documented. The actions and objects requested by the artists were creatively interpreted by the collector.

Thank You Paintings Exchange, 2014-2015, Series of 15 paintings: canvas, acrylic, epoxy, documentation: graphite, paper, c-print, bread, rose tea, money and foam roller, Dimensions variable