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Context is Everything
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6/6/2003

Context is Everything

mullerdechiara, Berlin

Ellen Harvey. What makes an artwork art? Is context really everything? Can an art cliche' still be art? What happens if you take landscape paintings outside onto the streets? Or if you take graffiti into the gallery? Or if you let the subject of a portrait speak back? Or allow the viewer into the intimate space of a self-portrait? Or reveal representational painting for the fraud that it is?


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Ellen Harvey

What makes an artwork art? Is context really everything? Can an art cliché still be art? What happens if you take landscape paintings outside onto the streets? Or if you take graffiti into the gallery? Or if you let the subject of a portrait speak back? Or allow the viewer into the intimate space of a self-portrait? Or reveal representational painting for the fraud that it is?

'Context is Everything' includes recent works that play with a variety of traditional art practices and their dependence on framing devices. 'The New York Beautification Project' is an illegal public art project for which Harvey painted 40 small oval landscapes directly in oils onto the most graffiti-laden sites in New York City. Its companion piece, 'Paintings of Paintings' consists of a series of paintings of graffiti-covered city scenes all framed in inappropriately ornate frames. 'Twins' is a video installation of two sychronized videos, one of the artists' face while drawing a self-portrait and the other of the drawing itself. '100 Free Portraits' is the record of a performance in which Harvey sat on the streets of New York offering free 15 minute portraits to passers-by in exchange for their filling out a a questionnaire about the finished portraits which were then mailed to the participants after being scanned. 'Seeing is Believing' is a video of what appears to be a painting being made of the studio scene behind the canvas but which is in fact a painting based on a live video feed from the recording video camera.

Ellen Harvey lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 1998 graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program and took part in the PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art's National Studio Program for 2000 - 2001. She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Lily Auchincloss Fellowship for 2002. Her most recent solo project was a'A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris' at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris in New York. Recent group exhibitions include: 'Shuffling the Deck' at the Princeton University Art Museum, 'Moving Faces' at Outline, Amsterdam, '637 Running Feet' at the Queens Museum of Art, 'Painting as Paradox' at Artists Space in New York, 'Hier ist Dort' at the Secession Museum in Vienna, Austria, 'Against The Wall' at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art , 'Strangers/Etrangers' at the PS1 Museum's Clocktower Gallery, 'First Person Singular' at the Seattle Art Museum and the 2000 Kwangju Biennale. Her illegal public art project 'New York Beautification Project' can be seen at http://www.NYBeautification.org. This is her first solo exhibition in Berlin.

opening June 7th, 6 PM
Exhibition open from June 7th through July 19th, Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 7 PM

For further information, or if you have any questions, please contact Laurie De Chiara or Christina Linden at the gallery. Tel.: +49-30-39032040

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