David Crespo has been photographing and documenting the performance scene in Bushwick, Brooklyn for years. He has been the resident photographer for ArtsIn Bushwick and their SITE Festival for Performance. David has become the Official Photographer for the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, documenting years of performance works.

This weekend, Grace Exhibition Space and Arts in Bushwick celebrate the extraordinarily talented and accomplished photographer with an exhibition of 13 of his works. Mr Crespo has chosen to exhibit images from two months of the NON GRATA GROUP residency last October-November, 2012 at the Grace Exhibition Space:
"Non Grata are eclectic and an institution on their own.They have no fear in presenting taboo and exotic themes and presenting them in an uplifting manor."

David Crespo majored in Photography with graduate studies at Hunter College and undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NONGRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of reaactions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, Where the Art World doesn�t work.

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