B-Grade

Katrina Burton Ryan Cockburn Jim Cooper Violet Fagan Adrian Hall Amy Jo Jory

Curated by the Blue Oyster, B-Grade is intended as:

Shorthand for Blue Oyster grade,

As B- grade materials and processes,

Anti style or deliberately rickety,

Some kind of commentary on the idea of value,

Artists as marginal commentators on the mainstream,

A look at arts role in cultural critique,

The flip side,

The other one,

The alternative,

As schlock or kitsch,

B-grade the way it’s used to describe movies (the attack of the fifty foot woman),

And a variety of other adjectives beginning with B…