1230 Avenue of the Americas
between 48th and 49th street
Basement Level
New York, NY 10020
Rockefeller Center stop
on the B/D/F/M
A collaboration between Jacob Sharff, Dan Gluibizzi and myself.
Deep in the heart of midtown capitalism, in the very belly of the beast
in the basement of the largest art corporation in the world,
while multimillion dollar auctions are happening directly overhead,
deep down below, there is a gallery dedicated to annhilating preciousness, focusing the ray of
absurdity on what it means to collect art and fostering the weird and unwieldy world of what is
happening today
March 16, 2011
in a video still as he performs Character Study
Video sample of performance
Character Study is a performance that draws the abstraction of financial identity into
the realm of the tangible. While wearing a suit of painter’s coveralls covered with his
social security, bank account, credit card and other “identifying” numbers, artist
Eric Clinton Anderson covers the walls of the gallery with hatchmarks representing the
exact amount of cumulative student loan debt (calculated to the day) he amassed while
achieving his MFA degree.