FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Greensboro, NC, June 9, 2008: In August of 2008, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative--an art production space, experimental museum, and visiting artist program set within a former thrift store--will host Miami-based artists Guerra de la Paz, an artistic team composed of artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. During this special residency, the artists will create a site-specific installation within Elsewhere using the thousands of vintage clothing resources contained within Elsewhere's 58-year collection of American surplus. Guerra de la Paz' work imagines new ecologies, topiaries, and figures composed of intricately bound, used clothing items. Guerra de la Paz will be working at Elsewhere and collaborating with Elsewhere's collective of artists, Etc., from August 17th to 31st.

Elsewhere is an arts production site and experimental museum that brings innovative contemporary artists to Greensboro to participate in the transformation of a three-story former thrift store housing one woman's immense 58-year collection of surplus objects. Elsewhere's international visiting artist program invites innovative cultural producers to create new, site-specific works across media using the materials of Elsewhere's collection. Artist work with and within a living artwork, continually transforming the vast resources and past artists' work into a building-wide collaborative installation. At Elsewhere neither object nor artwork is for sale, instead, a continually circulating environment of art and object provides imaginative experiences for audiences and artists alike.
                                              
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about the artist: Guerra de la Paz is the composite name that represents the creative team efforts of Cuban-born artists, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. What began as an idea for two individual artists to share a working studio in Miami's Little Haiti, has become an ongoing collaboration that has evolved into constant experimentation, manifesting into a body of work that spans over eleven years in a variety of formats. The recipient of the 2008 SCOPE Foundation Grant for artist project “Under the Banyan Tree,” they are are represented in the Saatchi Collection (London), 21C Museum Foundation (Louisville, KY), Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), Miami Art Museum (Miami, FL), and The Cintas Fellows Collection.

about the gallery: Elsewhere's artistic residencies and retreats explore "collaborative" as a creative model wherein individuals pursue their own particular vision while building from the shared collection of materials and resources that includes other artists' works. By using the collection and arrangement of objects as the common basis for creation, artists form alternative methods of creative communicative practice and explore alternative social architectures and living orders. Elsewhere's museum is continually constructed and reconstructed by artistic intervention, producing an explorative and immersive site for unfolding collaborations.