Exhibits

Day of the Locust

November 3 – December 10, 2011

Katherine Bernhardt
Rochelle Feinstein
Jonathan Horowitz
Lee Lozano
Jon Pestoni
Charlotte Posenenske
Mamie Tinkler

Curated by Jessica Baran

Beginning with mid-Century artists Charlotte Posenenske and Lee Lozano, who both willfully resigned from the art world at the very moment that they were hailed as being at the vanguard of their respective movements, "Day of the Locust" drafts a brief contemporary narrative of the endorsement and critique of radical ideological investment. From the promise of major art-formalist strategies as historic and qualitative gatekeepers, to the hope invested in artists to be uncommodifiable visionaries and agents of social change, the exhibit questions a culture that propagandizes certain idealistic myths as fervently as it reinforces their impossibility, postulating modes of failure as productive strategies for overcoming the constraints of such idealism.

A free electronic catalogue for iPad is available for download here.

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    • Charlotte Posenenske
      Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes) (Series D), 1967
      Sheet steel, folded stereometric hollow volumes, dimensions variable
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    • Installation with artworks by (left to right) Jon Pestoni, Rochelle Feinstein, Lee Lozano, Charlotte Posenenske, Jonathan Horowitz (foreground)
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    • Installation view with artworks by (left to right) Rochelle Feinstein and Jonathan Horowitz
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    • Jonathan Horowitz
      The Body Song, 1997
      Single-channel video for monitor and projection
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    • Installation view with artworks by (left to right) Rochelle Feinstein, Charlotte Posenenske, Mamie Tinkler, Rochelle Feinstein, Jonathan Horowitz
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    • Installation view with artworks by (left to right) Jonathan Horowitz, Katherine Bernhardt, Mamie Tinkler, Jon Pestoni
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    • Mamie Tinkler
      Economy!, 2008
      Gouache on paper, 22 x 9 inches
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    • Jonathan Horowitz
      Tofu on Pedestal in Gallery, 2002
      Tofu, water, glass dish, pedestal, 46 x 15 x 16 inches
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    • Lee Lozano
      No title, c. 1964-1965
      Graphite on graph paper, 5.5 x 8 inches
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    • Lee Lozano
      No title, c. 1964-1965
      Graphite on graph paper, 10.5 x 8 inches
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    • Rochelle Feinstein
      Happy Birthday x Rachel, 2009
      Stretched oil painting, cloth, board, tape, acrylic, framed photograph (Rachel Harrison), 42 x 60 inches
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    • Katherine Bernhardt
      Untitled, 2011
      Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
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    • Jon Pestoni
      Red Sweep, 2009
      Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches
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    • Mamie Tinkler
      Lonely People, 2007
      Gouache on paper, 12 x 9 inches
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    • Jonathan Horowitz
      Coke/Pepsi (112 Cans), 2011
      UV ink on vinyl, 154 x 154 inches
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