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The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) is pleased to present Shitter, Get Off the Pot! Dislocation in Contemporary Art. This exhibition, curated by New York based artist Marye Carter, was originally seen in an abbreviated form on Manhattan Cable TV Channel 17,Project Art Show, broadcast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, produced by Aimee Margolis in 1998. Ms Carter has enlarged the original format of this exhibition and expanded the list of artists for the installation at UIMA.

Ms Carter's project examines dislocation and misinterpretation using the commonplace materials of our everyday experience and tweaking their meaning. This celebration of displacement in the context of popular culture will feature work by New York artists Doug Anson, Adam Cvijanovic, Yram Retrac, Kristine Robinson, Bill Scanga, Sally Van Gorder, and Tamara Zahaykevich.

Steve Mumford, of Review Magazine writes:
"Shit or get off the pot!": the phrase is redolent of 1950's American machismo and go-get-'em ambition. Nixon supposedly said it in berating Eisenhower to put him on the ticket... But then one could imagine Rickie Ricardo using the phrase and getting it wrong, in his thick Cuban accent: "Shitter, get off the pot!" In fact, that's how Marye Carter, the curator, had always interpreted the phrase: a demand to make room... For her the potency of pop culture embodied in cheap plastics, lurid colors, catchy tunes and catch phrases has a real visceral draw, a formalism of its own that invites the kind of displacement and conceptual tangles typical of making art.

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), a not for profit arts organization, was founded in 1971. For over 25 years UIMA has served the local community and greater Chicago area with a program of exhibitions, concerts, lectures and multi-disciplinary events. The programs presented by UIMA are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.