Exhibitions

ELI PING | ANNA GASKELL

27 Nov - 11 Dec 2007 Broken fragments of ceramic figurines form the basis for Eli Ping’s monumental constructs. Shifting between gestural abstraction and fragmented narrative, the resulting forms balance precariously between ascendence and collapse. Read more

BRUCE CONNER

WORKS ON PAPER 1961 TO 2005 18 Oct - 17 Nov 2007 Coming of age during the Sixties, Bruce Conner was at the forefront of a Cultural Revolution set against the stark backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Summer of Love. In the face of an increasingly unpopular war and the prevailing Conservative Capitalist Culture, Conner and his peers sought an alternative lifestyle and value system on the margins of society. Read more

ANDREA ZITTEL

SMOCKSHOP 7 Sep - 13 Oct 2007 Hired as a gallery assistant to the famously chic Pat Hearn, Andrea Zittel did what any budget conscious recent art school grad would do : she created. Specifically, she designed a wardrobe of personal uniforms, thereby raising questions about the interweaving of function and fashion, design and life, commerce and art. Her uniforms paved the way for an ongoing output of A-Z “prototypes” that probe the relationship between human nature and design, whether for the home, the body or the soul. Read more

SUMMER OF LOVE '07

1 Jul - 3 Aug 2007 "Summer of Love '07" - a conscious repost to the uptown exhibition of the same name, a montage of contemporary equivalents: excess, youth, hippy chic, war, wayward souls - Bruce Conner, Hope Gangloff, Annette Lemieux, Simone Shubuck, Greg Smith, and Christopher Ulivo.

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MARTIN BASHER

31 May - 30 Jun 2007 In two and three dimensions, Martin Basher conjures an uncertain Shangri-La of supra natural substance. Buried within dense primal forests, weekend homes pop up as randomly and inexplicably as the cartoonishly bright flora and fauna with which they are landscaped. The promise of a 21st Century Utopia is undermined by a pervasive sense of unease. Read more

DOUGLAS HUEBLER

CROCODILE TEARS 26 Apr - 26 May 2007 In 1981, conceptual artist Douglas Huebler completed a screenplay entitled “Crocodile Tears”, a fictitious exposé of an art world blinded by its own bright light. The work tantalizes with a series of narratives that touch upon the most unsavory elements of the Art World/Market: the contracted artist who risks all to turn a profit for a corporate machine, a threatening young prodigy, an evil art dealer, an art forger, and a failed artist. Read more

DONNA HUANCA

PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD 22 Mar - 21 Apr 2007 The future of music as played by puppets, "Philosophy of the World," was conceived by Donna Huanca on the occasion of her exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery. Members of the band include Dorothy “Dot” Wiggins of The Shaggs, whose anti-music album “The Philosophy of the World” has the distinction of being labeled “the worst record ever made in the history of music”; Leon Theremin, creator of the theremin and a forerunner of electronic music; and Huanca herself. Read more

CHRISTOPHER ULIVO

15 Feb - 17 Mar 2007 Ulivo’s first exhibition at the Gallery imagined a world of humble woodsmen toiling heroically, or foolishly, to master a brutal, unforgiving Wilderness. Against all odds, without regard for multi-taloned monkeys or acid-rain skies, this determined breed struggled to fashion a modern world from wood and straw. Read more