Just Opened:
“Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday”
curated by Matthew Higgs, the Director of White Columns
James Cohan Gallery, 533 W26th St., NYC
Collectively the works in the exhibit seem most interested in the point at which the self-contained rationality of earlier modernist abstraction is ruptured. This sense of “rupture” – both physically and psychologically - is perhaps the prevailing aesthetic attitude that unites the otherwise highly idiosyncratic artists – and art works – brought together here. In the work of all these artists traces of our material culture are transformed, or perhaps more accurately, re-purposed into something that is simultaneously familiar and strange. - thru July 27
Artists: Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Sarah Braman, Wolfgang Breuer, Tom Burr, Ernst Caramelle, Andy Coolquitt, Paul Cowan, N. Dash, Tony Feher, Michel François, Joe Fyfe, Kim Gordon, David Hammons, Richard Hawkins, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Bill Jenkins, Sergej Jensen, Udomsak Krisanamis, Jason Loebs, Agnes Lux, David Moreno, Virginia Overton, Manfred Pernice, Judith Scott, Nancy Shaver, Gedi Sibony, Michael E. Smith, Josh Smith, Shinique Smith, Al Taylor, Bill Walton, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, Philadelphia Wireman, B. Wurtz, Amy Yao
Coin Sculptures by Stacey Webber
1. The Craftsmen Series, Silver Collection: Tape Measure
Materials: nickel, silver, silver dimes, silver quarters
L x H x W: 28” x 3” x 1”
Date: 2009
Photo Credit: Larry Sanders
2. The Craftsmen Series: Hammer
Materials: pennies
Description: hollow constructed pennies
L x H x W: 4” x 10” x 12”
Date: 2008
Photo Credit: Tom McInvaille
