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Paul Kolker's Studio601 morphs the commercial demands of the contemporary art market with those requirements for making and exhibiting fine art, much like the atelier of 100 years ago. The concept is not intended to bypass the dealer, gallerist, or museum. Rather, the dual usage of the studio for both art production and curated exhibitions is intended to showcase the artist’s work to the primary art market by highlighting the process (making the art) and the substance (the concept and the subject matter of the art as curated). This strategy is particularly important for Kolker’s empirical algorithms of art as a curatorial pursuit; while treating art as an experiment by questioning our experience, Kolker uses the studio as a laboratory and the viewer as the perceptual and cognitive measuring instrument.
