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BEC STUPAK
RADICAL EARTH MAGIC FLOWER
January 12 – February 25, 2005
76 Grand Street
Deitch Projects is pleased to present a new exhibition of video,
sculpture and performance by Bec Stupak. Couched in an exotic
harem-esque interior reminiscent of 1940’s B movies, her installation
uses video, sculpture, performance, elaborate set design, body paint,
and projected light to create a sense of euphoria.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Bec's blind remake of Jack Smith’s
legendary film Flaming Creatures. Using members of her demimonde,
including performance drag group The Radical Fairies, Phiiliip, Agathe
Snow, and other downtown celebrities, she recreates the 1963 cult
classic based only on the impressions she’s collected from others of
what the film consists of. Where costume matters more than actor or
actress, anyone can get dressed up, loosened up, and sucked into this
world of bestial, mystical erotica.
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On 12 January 2006 the Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea
location “Hiding In The Light”, an exhibition curated by Neville Wakefield.
Accepting the actuality of ANDY WARHOL’s often repeated quip on fifteen
minutes and fame, the show examines through the work of eight artists
the complex interchange of celebrity, audience, participation, and
escape. Fittingly, Warhol’s amateurish “Screen Tests” from
1964-1965 are projected onto the wall of the Gallery entryway.
The concept of the silver screen is then suddenly upended by a dazzling
mirrored floor by RUDOLF STINGEL that covers the expanse of the space,
ensnaring the viewer and the art works in reflected gazes and
spotlights.
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Deitch Projects is pleased to present Hypnogoogia, a collaborative
installation by Jim Drain and Ara Peterson. In this incredible
cumulative show, 18 Wooster St. is transformed into an interactive,
spinning landscape-- a psychedelic music of the spheres featuring work
produced by the artists over the past two years.
Moving through corridors of rainbow pinwheels, a huge kaleidoscope
hallway, and four exactingly gorgeous geodesic sphere-shaped paintings
rotating slowly on the ground and ceiling, the viewer becomes immersed
in their lyrical, spherical environment. Hypnotically spinning on the
first platform is a twelve-foot rainbow ottoman, and above, a video
feed throwing the spinning participants on the wall
upstairs.
This show brings to ambitious fruition much of the imagery with which
Jim and Ara have been working for the past few years, where radiant
disks and morphing spherical forms found in their collages, wall
drawings, and video projects, are found here expanded to full
three-dimensionality and human
scale.
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Breaking & Entering: Art and the Video Game
A group show featuring works by Cory Arcangel, Brody Condon,
Jon Haddock, JODI, Paper Rad, RSG and Eddo Stern
New York, December 1, 2005— PaceWildenstein is pleased to present
Breaking and Entering: Art and the Video Game an exhibition of work by
seven artists working at the forefront of the digital medium. The
digital, increasingly the medium of our everyday lives, is redefining
the way we interact with and perceive the world around us in much the
same way as the railroad redefined our geographical and cultural
landscape at the end of the nineteenth century. The works in this
exhibition map a new visual terrain, a terrain grounded not in material
reality but in numerical sequences of which the visual is just one of
many possible expressions. The digital is a realm that has only just
begun to be explored and the artists represented here are the first to
have broken into this new space. Treating the video game as a primary
visual expression of the digital, they make use of the skills they
honed as players to disrupt, reorganize and rewrite the visual surface
in novel ways. For each artist and group, breaking becomes a way of
entering.
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The Last Generation
curated by Max Henry
Examines mechanical reproduction and seemingly
“analog” approaches to art-making in our contemporary "digital" world.
November 30* - January 7, 2006
*Opening reception: WED DEC 7, 6-8 pm
Artists: Kota Ezawa, Malachi Farrell, Wayne Gonzales, Emilie Halpern,
Jan Mancuska, Laurent Montaron, Scott Myles, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
The Last Generation
Culturally altered for better or worse, every day we are steps closer
to the cyber-fictional world of man/machine. From 20th century analog
bulk-mass and "slowness" to early 21st century speed and compactness,
this transition hurtles us forward. At some point in the near future
the analog world of the 20th century will be a distant memory....
Many of you remember:
There was a day when the phone rang, and was left unanswered if nobody
was home. Then came answering machines, which brought the first wave of
automation into the home. The LP record and 8-track tape were gradually
replaced by smaller cassettes. One day after MTV hit, I walked into a
major record store, and seemingly overnight everything in the racks was
a sleek (wow!) compact disc, with the old technology overstock in
leftover bins... As the years flew by we witnessed a technological
boom...ATM machines cropping up everywhere, satellite television
installations in almost every home, and the pc revolution…
A phrase that most often refers to recently outmoded technology,
a quick internet search on "The Last Generation" reveals thousands of
references to video gaming, holocaust and A-bomb survivors, tomes
written on the political history of the last generation of the Roman
Republic, and end-time Christian ideology on "the rapture.” Such a term
then indicates an irrepressible change from past knowledge towards an
encounter or collision with new ideas and altered forms.
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The
Looker, 2005, 24 x 20 inches/ 24 x 100 inches
November 11 – December 23, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 2005 6-8pm
In his third exhibition with the gallery, Hilliard presents Desired Effect, a series of
multi-panel constructed color photographs which explore the emotional,
psychological and sexual dynamics of fantasy, longing and desire. As Hilliard
explains, “My newer work takes a deeper look at what we seek out in order to
complete our sense of self, and perhaps define us. Oftentimes what we buy,
plant, make or consume does the trick but more often than not leaves us wanting
more.” In what the artist describes as “epic photographs of a mundane world,”
Hilliard’s subjects are depicted in a search for empowerment or self-definition,
longing for or clinging to everything from a shiny sports car to melting candies,
from a sexual encounter to the pursuit of a youthful appearance to the
sanctification of motherhood. Striking a balance between autobiography and
fiction, Hilliard reveals the average person’s struggle with sexuality, aging and
social expectations.
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