NEW YORK.- Here and Elsewhere, opening Sunday, April 1, 2007, features a range of work by 36 artists from throughout the metropolitan area, all of whom have participated in the most recent incarnation of Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country. The title alludes to both the global reach of the program, now in its 27th year, and to the fluidity of art practices in today’s global life.

The exhibition anticipates new artistic directions, as it celebrates the vitality and promise of new voices. Video predominates this year, and a number of artists explore the use of internet sources, yet it is the range of media embraced by these up-and-coming artists that is striking, from installation to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking.

A comprehensive catalog will accompany the exhibition, featuring essays by Erin Riley-Lopez, Assistant Curator at the Bronx Museum and the organizer of the exhibition, and João Ribas, a noted writer and curator based in New York. Ribas will focus on “the centuries-old creative tension between art and commerce, the professionalization of art in today's metastasizing art world, and the economic reality faced by artists longing to survive the inflated market now.”

In conjunction with Here and Elsewhere, the Bronx Museum will debut ON-SITE, a media-based installation involving the work of all the artists represented in the exhibition. To be located in the lobby of the Museum’s new Arquitectonica-designed building, ON-SITE is a joint collaboration between the Museum’s curatorial and education departments.

An annual event, the Art in the Marketplace exhibition marks the Museum’s ongoing commitment to support emerging artists by providing unique career development opportunities. Over the last three decades, the program has served nearly 900 participants, including many like Glenn Ligon and Polly Apfelbaum who have gone on the establish international reputations.

AIM offers a cycle of two sessions a year and culminates in a group exhibition of participants from both terms at The Bronx Museum. The exhibition remains on view through August 19th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Artists: Bami Adedoyin; Becca Albee; Fanny Allié; Jesse Alpern; Dorthe Alstrup; Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor; Jill Auckenthaler; Gail Biederman; Hector Canonge; Christine Catsifas; Jillian Conrad; Vince Contarino; Jon Cuyson; Caroline Falby; Tracey Goodman; Patrick Grenier; Emily Hall; Joseph Hart; Ketta Ioannidou; Elaine Kaufmann; Jayson Keeling; Taeseong Kim; Joseph Maida; Amanda Mathis; Amanda Matles; Megan Michalak; Hiroyuki Nakamura; Alison Owen; Chihcheng Peng; David Politzer; Emily Puthoff; Jenna Ransom; Rashanna Rashied-Walker; Jason Reppert; Joseph Eli Tekippe; and Will Walker.

Artist in the Marketplace twenty-seventh annual exhibition is generously supported by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust and Helena Rubinstein Foundation. On-Site is supported by The Peter J. Sharp Foundation.