Iain Kerr is an internationally recognized artist and writer whose work has been widely exhibited including exhibitions with The Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCA and Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Kerr lives and works in Montclair, New Jersey and holds teaching appointments at Montclair State University, The University of Maine andBates College. While Iain Kerr is best known in his active role in spurse – a peripatetic collective and experimental consultation service – his own unique body of work has rarely been presented, until now. Kerr’s Things: Propositions/Exaptations is a trenchant critique of the western tradition’s fundamental misunderstanding of “Things,” and a sweeping set of alternative propositions.Things: Propositions/Exaptations conceives of the gallery space as an extended experimental form of diagrammatic essay and philosophical argument. It moves beyond the medium of writing to more of an embodied form of dialog, with some of the thinkers that have been central to Kerr’s work over the years: Simondon, Whitehead, Thompson, Deleuze and Stengers. As an experiment beyond our current paradigm of “thingness,” the dynamics of space, diagrams and the reader are entangled to produce a new aesthetic consideration of things as active entangled material propositions. “THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS” is open from May 6 through May 29.Opening Reception First Friday May 6th 6-10pm. Artist BioIain Kerr is an artist, writer, and teacher whose engagements have taken him into and across the fields of philosophy, emergent architectures, evolutionary ecology, developmental systems theory, clothing design, labor practices, and foodways, amongst other things. He is a founding member of the international trans-disciplinary collectivespurse and the corporation: That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated (2004-2009). His individually and collaborative work has been hosted by various institutions in the US (such as the Whitney, Grand Arts, CAFK+A, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Mass MoCA), as well as internationally (Poland, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Nunavut, and the Netherlands), and published in a number of books and journals including: The Interventionists, The Object of Labor, Experimental Geography, The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Surface, ID, NY Times, Elle, Teme Celeste, Art Papers, Monitor, Interior Design, Art Journal, and Western Front. In addition to working as part of spurse he has collaborated with the artists: Petia Morozov, Leon Johnson, William Pope L., Mark Dion, Cesare Pietriosti, Allison Knowles, J. Morgan Puett, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, and Bartow+Metzgar; lectured and taught widely (including Harvard University, Columbia University, Parsons, University of Maine, CCA, RISDI and the University of Venice). He current writing has focused on the Philosophy of Things, Systems Theory, Trans-species Foodways and experimental pedagogic practices. About Gallery 37-AGallery 37-A is a project space initiated in December of 2009 by Brook Delorme and Daniel Pepice. Presenting exhibitions of the work of emerging and established artists, Gallery 37-A is located at 37A Wharf Street in Portland, Maine’s Old Port District. Gallery 37-A is open to the public Thursday – Monday 12 – 6pm and by appointment. For Further Information, Please contactBrook DeLorme, brookdel@yahoo.comDaniel Pepice, danieljohnpepice@gmail.com

Iain Kerr is an internationally recognized artist and writer whose work has been widely exhibited including exhibitions with The Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCA and Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Kerr lives and works in Montclair, New Jersey and holds teaching appointments at Montclair State University, The University of Maine andBates College.
 
While Iain Kerr is best known in his active role in spurse – a peripatetic collective and experimental consultation service – his own unique body of work has rarely been presented, until now. Kerr’s Things: Propositions/Exaptations is a trenchant critique of the western tradition’s fundamental misunderstanding of “Things,” and a sweeping set of alternative propositions.Things: Propositions/Exaptations conceives of the gallery space as an extended experimental form of diagrammatic essay and philosophical argument. It moves beyond the medium of writing to more of an embodied form of dialog, with some of the thinkers that have been central to Kerr’s work over the years: Simondon, Whitehead, Thompson, Deleuze and Stengers. As an experiment beyond our current paradigm of “thingness,” the dynamics of space, diagrams and the reader are entangled to produce a new aesthetic consideration of things as active entangled material propositions.
 
“THINGS: PROPOSITIONS/EXAPTATIONS” is open from May 6 through May 29.
Opening Reception First Friday May 6th 6-10pm.
 
Artist Bio
Iain Kerr is an artist, writer, and teacher whose engagements have taken him into and across the fields of philosophy, emergent architectures, evolutionary ecology, developmental systems theory, clothing design, labor practices, and foodways, amongst other things. He is a founding member of the international trans-disciplinary collectivespurse and the corporation: That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated (2004-2009).
 
His individually and collaborative work has been hosted by various institutions in the US (such as the Whitney, Grand Arts, CAFK+A, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Mass MoCA), as well as internationally (Poland, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Nunavut, and the Netherlands), and published in a number of books and journals including: The Interventionists, The Object of Labor, Experimental Geography, The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Surface, ID, NY Times, Elle, Teme Celeste, Art Papers, Monitor, Interior Design, Art Journal, and Western Front.
 
In addition to working as part of spurse he has collaborated with the artists: Petia Morozov, Leon Johnson, William Pope L., Mark Dion, Cesare Pietriosti, Allison Knowles, J. Morgan Puett, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, and Bartow+Metzgar; lectured and taught widely (including Harvard University, Columbia University, Parsons, University of Maine, CCA, RISDI and the University of Venice). He current writing has focused on the Philosophy of Things, Systems Theory, Trans-species Foodways and experimental pedagogic practices.
 
About Gallery 37-A
Gallery 37-A is a project space initiated in December of 2009 by Brook Delorme and Daniel Pepice. Presenting exhibitions of the work of emerging and established artists, Gallery 37-A is located at 37A Wharf Street in Portland, Maine’s Old Port District. Gallery 37-A is open to the public Thursday – Monday 12 – 6pm and by appointment.
 
For Further Information, Please contact
Brook DeLorme, brookdel@yahoo.com
Daniel Pepice, danieljohnpepice@gmail.com