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8/6/2005

Summer of 10019

Modern Culture, New York

A group exhibition of painting, photography, and mixed media works by Roberta Bayley, Penny Davis, Chris "Daze" Ellis, Jess Holzworth, Valentina Loi, Billy Name, Kanako Okazaki, and Sam Samore.

"Summer Of 10019," an homage to the Summer 1991 campaign for "Summer of 90210," is a gentle reminder that the cultural season is ongoing past the Memorial Day Weekend of late May and that Modern Culture is located on Fifth Avenue, between 56th & 57th Streets, in the 10019 postal code.

Roberta Bayley (New York) is recognized for her portraits of The Ramones, Blondie, Television, Iggy Pop, Joe Strummer, and other culture-shaping individuals of the late 1970's. In this exhibition, Ms. Bayley's color portrait of The Heartbreakers--Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure, and Billy Rath--is being exhibited in the USA for the first time. The original 35-mm. positive for this photograph, the cover image for the band's seminal, 1977 debut album, "L.A.M.F.," resurfaced last October, after having been stored in a photo archive in London for 27 years. The work of Ms. Bayley, the chief photographer of "Punk" Magazine in the late 1970's and early 1980's, has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Penny Davis (Portsmouth, United Kingdom) radically alters manufactured and mass-produced items. In this exhibition, Ms. Davis, with her work, "Ten Samples From the Mr. and Mrs. Edward Simpson," calls attention to the legacy of the abdicated King of England and his bride. Ms. Davis is an alumna of the MFA program of Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her work is in the collection of The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland.

Chris "Daze" Ellis (New York) is recognized for his pictorial paintings of urban life in New York City. During the past five years, Mr. Ellis has been traveling to Rio de Janeiro, painting public murals and becoming acquainted with the city's leading young artists. In the process, he's gained entry into Rio's renowned "favelas." This exhibition features vivid portraits of a 14-year-old "favelado," a teenager, wearing shorts and flip flops and carrying an automatic machine gun, and a young, teenage, native Brazilian boy, an "indio." The work of Mr. Ellis has been extensively exhibited in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia since the late 1970's. His works are in the collections of The Museum Of Modern Art; The Brooklyn Museum Of Art; The Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; and other prestigious museums.

Jess Holzworth (San Diego) celebrates the capacity for the commonplace to reveal the transgressive. In this exhibition, a skull-and-crossbones, set within a black background, is composed of sewn-together sequins and displayed in a pre-fabricated, store-bought frame. Ms. Holzworth's work has been exhibited in the Biennale di Arte Contemporanea 2004 in Transito, Rome; The Institute Of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and P.S. 1, Long Island City. A solo exhibition of Ms. Holzworth's work will take place at Modern Culture from mid-October to mid-November 2005.

Valentina Loi (Milan & Paris) explores the dynamics of childhood and adulthood in her video works and paintings. In this exhibition, the confluence of both stages of life is explored in Ms. Loi's paintings of amusement park bumper cars. The work of Ms. Loi, an alumna of New York University's MFA program, has been featured in "Manifesta 4," Frankfurt; Assab One, Milan; and Artists Space, New York. A solo exhibition of Ms. Loi's work will take place at Modern Culture in April 2006.

Billy Name (New York) is internationally recognized for his 1960's photographs of Andy Warhol and his contemporaries. Credited with comprehensively and authoritatively revealing the life in and around Mr. Warhol's famous studio during the height and aftermath of the Pop Art era, Billy Name is responsible for influencing the culture-at-large through his documentation of the production of Mr. Warhol's paintings and films and his distinctive images of Mr. Warhol's assistants, "Superstars," friends, acquaintances, associates, collectors, and peers. In this exhibition, a silver gelatin print photograph depicts two views of Mr. Warhol, Fred Hughes, Paul Morrissey, and Steve Sesnick walking to the wedding of John Cale and Betsy Johnson. Billy Name's work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art's Film Department, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.

Kanako Okazaki (Yokohama) explores vitality and mortality in her photographs, sculpture, installations, drawings, and prints. In this exhibition, a silver gelatin print, self-portrait of the artist--appearing to be slumbering eternally--is visible behind an arrangement of artificial flowers, from which streams of blood-red ink appears to be flowing. Ms. Okazaki is an alumna of New York University's BFA program. A solo exhibition of her work was presented at Modern Culture in 2004. Her work has also been exhibited in Tokyo and Milan.

Sam Samore (New York) is widely recognized for his photographic explorations of the human visage. In his "Allegories Of Beauty (Incomplete)" series--inspired by an ancient Egyptian sculpture of Nerfertiti's head--Mr. Samore explores the classical through the lens of post-modernism. In work #101 of this series, two views of a female subject's face elegantly bring to mind the many mysterious ways that humans can be regarded and studied through cinema and sculpture and in life, itself. Solo exhibitions of Mr. Samore's work have been presented in New York, , Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Brussels, and Tokyo. A solo exhibition of Mr. Samore's work will be presented in Mexico City this summer.

Image: SAM SAMORE, Allegories Of Beauty (Incomplete) (#101) 1990's. Silver gelatin print, framed 27 x 41 inches (68.6 x 101.1 cm.) (including framing) Edition of 2

Modern Culture is located at The Crown Building, 730 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor, (between 56th & 57th Street) in the 57th Street District of Midtown Manhattan, New York NY 10019 USA.

Viewing hours for this exhibition will be Monday to Friday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, and by appointment. For further information, please call Barry Neuman at 212.659.7749.

Subway: F & Q to 57th Street & Avenue of the Americas; E & V to Fifth Avenue & 53rd Street; N & R to Fifth Avenue & 60th Street.

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