JANUARY SHOWS
subject to change, as always
Trevor Shimizu, 47 CanalThe Displaced Person (group), Invisible Exports
Headstrong (group), Studio SalonSpecial Blend (group), The Journal
Sebastian Black, ClearingRoom East (group), 41 Orchard
Ned Colcough, Nicelle Beauchene
Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw, Letha Wilson, Toomer Labzda
Joseph Montgomery, Laurel Gitlen
Facetime (group), On Stellar Rays
Gregg Bordowitz, Doug Ischar, Tom Kalin (screening), Participant
Marianne Vitale, Zach Feuer
Robert Buck, CRG
Michael Snow, Jack Shainman
Jeff Keen, Elizabeth Dee
Slater Bradley, Team 83
John Miserendino, Recess
The End (group), Vogt
Rashid Johnson, Hauser & Wirth
Cheat Chains and Telephone (group), Kansas
Dawn Clements, Pierogi
Grey Full (group), Jeff Bailey
Doug Ischar, Golden
On Kawara, David Zwirner
group show, Regina Rex
group show, SculptureCenter
DANIEL SINSEL
b. 1976
Untitled, 2008, oil on canvas, 32 x 26 cm
Untitled, 2010, silk, 182 x 59 cm
Untitled, 2010, linen, 175 x 135 cm
more about Daniel Sinsel
HOLIDAY LIST
Good grief, I have my work cut out for me. Maybe today’s trip around the world will generate NEW content for this blog? Pardon any repeats.
I deserve a large lump of cybercoal in my high-heeled Christmas stocking.
—*Last visit to Stadium for Performance Anxiety
Rona Yefman, Derek Eller
Group show, Foxy Production
John Pilson, Nicole Klagsbrun
Paul Sharits, Greene Naftali
Byron Kim, James Cohan
December, Mitchell Innes and Nash
Mitchell Squire, CUE Foundation
Mask & Mirror, Lesley Heller
Peter Hujar, Matthew Marks 24th
Nan Goldin, Matthew Marks 22nd
Joan Mitchell, Cheim + Read
Andrea Bowers, Andrew Kreps
Trisha Brown, SIKKEMA
Patrick Brennan/Paul Wackers, Morgan LehmanRobert Heinecken, Friedrich Petzel
Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan (again!)
Jim Hodges, Gladstone
Play Station (group), Postmasters
Lauren Kelley, the Kitchen
Neo Rauch, David Zwirner
Nancy Shaver, Feature
Scott Treleaven, Invisible Exports
David Gilbert, Klaus Von Nichtssagend (CRUCIAL)
Billy Childish, Lehmann Maupin Chrystie
Tommy Hartung, On Stellar Rays
Corin Hewitt, Laurel Gitlen
Lucas Blalock, Ramiken Crucible
Tom Sachs, Sperone WestwaterGroup show, The Hole (post-opening)
blue curry, Toomer Labzda
Underemployed (group show), Zurcher Studio
Identity, Artists Space
Miller Updegraff, Clifton Benevento
Jean-Frederic Schryder, Swiss Institute
Cory Arcangel & Pierre Bismuth, Team 83
Jayson Keeling, Third Streaming
MOYRA DAVEY
b. 1958
more on Moyra Davey
current: on view in New Photography 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art
special announcement
I’m going to break format a little to post about an exhibition that’s opening tonight in New York that is very dear to my heart. Performance Anxiety is the inaugural exhibition at Stadium, a new exhibition space in Chelsea; it was curated by Nicolas Djandji and features the work of Ben Schumacher, Timur Si-Qin, Steve Bishop, and Christopher Chiappa.
As some of those who follow this blog may know, Djandji and I’d worked together on several occasions in the past, and he was always the first person I discussed my projects with. I deeply valued his insight, his curiosity, and sanity in much of my wild curatorial scheming. Professional dealings aside, he was my best friend, as he was to many. Djandji was killed in a cycling accident on September 2, before he was able to fully realize his first curatorial project. In light of this, a group of Djandji’s friends worked in tandem with the co-founders of Stadium to finalize the project. I am so humbled to have been apart of this process, and am deeply moved by the support that this exhibition has received.
Congratulations, Nic. We are all so very PROUD of you.
through December 20
Employing mass-produced products designed for bodily self-improvement, the artists in Performance Anxiety explore contemporary manifestations of consumer culture. Here, the notion that the pursuit of athletic, hygienic, and professional perfection should be sought through the constant purchase of new products is cast into doubt. Through a series of works arresting these normally utilitarian, performance-enhancing products in sculpture, Performance Anxiety waxes upon the paradoxical, collectively shared desire of the present-day individual to become superhuman–physically fit, sexually attractive, and immaculately groomed—by way of altering the body’s chemistry and obscuring its most basic functions. Contextualizing these items as aesthetic elements rather than functional goods, each artist carves a meditative space reflecting upon the absurd modus operandi of these products.
Drawing on the legacy of Minimalist sculpture, the included artists point to both art historical cues—for instance, the removal of the artist’s hand and the introduction of quotidian materials into the realm of high art—but also, in reversal, how the Minimalist aesthetic has come to factor into marketing consumer goods, specifically communicating measures of taste and sophistication. Speaking simultaneously to the degeneration of Minimalism’s once-radical content through its subsumption as a marketing tool, Performance Anxiety unearths our hesitance to critically consider our own relationships to both these types of items and to our oft-impenetrable, unconscious relationships to advertising, to which no one is alien.
STEVE BISHOP
b. 1983
As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity III, 2011, mercury and printed T-shirt in frame, 20 x 19 cm
Φ, 2010, Listerine ’Cool Mint’, stainless steel, 160 x 96 x 2 cm
My Work Here is Done IX, 2009, glass, lighting gels, various tapes, 248 x 159 x 40 cm*
more on Steve Bishop
Upcoming: Performance Anxiety with Timur Si-Qin, Ben Schumacher, and Christopher Chiappa at STADIUM (548 W 28th #636, NYC), curated by Nicolas Djandji. Opening 10 November.
*image credit: Stefano Galli
THINGS TO SEE
With a slightly smaller list, let’s see how well I manage to catch up on my viewings…
PERFORMA 2011
Carsten Höller, New MuseumSarah Braman, Mitchell Innes and Nash
Deja Vu (group show), Regina RexWork Hard (group show), Wildlife
View of Outer Space from an Aquarium (group show), Famous AccountantsMatthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan
Allison Schulnik, ZieherSmith
Nan Goldin, Matthew Marks
Identity, Artists SpaceLeslie Hewitt, D’Amelio Terras Tommy Hartung, On Stellar Rays
Deville Cohen, Louis B. James
Cory Arcangel + Pierre Bismuth, Team 83 GrandClaire Fontaine, Metro Pictures
Rebecca Horn, Sean KellyYoko Ono, Galerie LeLong
Lily Ludlow, CanadaJoanne Greenbaum, D’Amelio TerrasMichelle Ceja, Klaus Von Nichtssagend (online)
Corin Hewitt, Laurel GitlenRashaad Newsome, MarlboroughMartin Bromirski, Art Blog Art Blog Ivin Ballen, 179 East Broadway
Micah Ganske, 137 Duane Street
Justin Matherly, Bureau
…somehow, I don’t doubt this list will continue to expand into infinity…
BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE!
Lucas Blalock, Ramiken CrucibleThe Hostess Never Sleeps series, Vogt Clifford Owens, PS1
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern
Drawing Club (group show), Soloway
Sherrie Levine, Whitney Museum
Die Like You Really Mean It, Allegra LaViolaTailgates and Substitutes, Thierry GoldbergdeKooning, MoMA (duhKooning)
Mitchell Squire, Cue Art Foundation
Cloud (group show), Foxy Production
blue curry, Toomer Labzda
Maurizio Cattelan, Guggenheim
Josephine Halvorsen, Sikkema Jenkins
Jack Strange, Tanya Bonakdar
Paul Sharits, Greene Naftali
KRISTOF WICKMAN
b. 1981
Bulletin, 2010, rear mounted digital C-print on plexiglass, 40” x 50”
Still Life, 2010, cast aqua-resin, paint, 37” x 20” x 17”
more on Kristof Wickman
current: solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum through 11/27
HAROLD MENDEZ
b. 1977
Nothing Prevents Anything, 2007, acrylic paint, staples, tape, paper, graphite, transparent enamel, black silicone carbide
current: September 11 (group show) at MoMA/PS 1 through January 9, 2012
N. DASH
b. 1980
more on N. Dash
current: William Anastasi/N. Dash at Nicole Klagsbrun through October 22
ps. I absolutely adored this show
