Danica Phelps
dal 21/2/2001 al 31/3/2001
Segnalato da
21/2/2001
Danica Phelps
LFL Gallery, New York
For an exhibition at the LFL Gallery,opening in late February, I am making a two month trading project withabout 30 artists from the flat file at the gallery. This is the firsttime that I will be meeting people for the first time, and building a relationshipwith them through trading (Danica Phelps).
TRADE TWO
Artist Statement
I have three main goals in trading my work with otherartists. These are to
generate a collection that represents differentparts of my life without having
to make a lot of money, to get out of thestudio to meet other people, and to
insure that other people will havemy art works even if no one ever buys another
piece of mine and the marketcrashes.
When I got my first check from the sale ofmy work, I decided that I wanted
to be on the other side of the transaction, and I purchased four art works in
four weeks from four different galleries. I mounted these four art works onto my
drawings that record my daily earnings, expenditures, and activities. It was a
very interesting experiment, but a few months later, when I had to use my credit
card to get by, itseemed like a less interesting experiment. Well, I could
either quit beingan artist, get
a high powered job, and cater to my impulse to acquire art, or I couldtake
advantage of my position as an artist and trade for my collection. So, during
the past year, I have been trading with as many friends as I can, generating a
modest collection of 40 works that I regard very highly. With these trades, have
come wonderful conversations about value whichis one of the main subjects of my
work. My work now addresses somethingmore abstract, not solely the irritatingly
concrete subject of money.
Now, for an exhibition at the LFL Gallery,opening in late February, I am
making a two month trading project withabout 30 artists from the flat file at
the gallery. This is the firsttime that I will be meeting people for the first
time, and building a relationshipwith them through trading. I'll make maps of
my travels to theirstudios, recording my life through the process.
As none of the works in my collection are for sale, the LFL viewerwill be able
to replace my traded work with one of their own choosing fromthe flat file if
they purchase a day of the trading project.
The works that I will be trading are from a seriesof drawings that I made
while traveling across the country, visiting allof the towns where I pay my
bills. This project is called BILL TRIP,and will be represented in it's
entirety, with the addition of the tradesin the exhibition at the LFL Gallery.
Danica will be trading with:
Steve Aishman
Matt Anderson
Stephen Apicella Hitchcock
Hannah Burr
Alejandro Cardenas
Nuno De Campos
SianFoulkesNadja Groux
Karen Heagle
Geraldine Lau
Andrea Legge
Gabriela Miccha
Lazaro Montano
Takeshi MoroMatt Straub
Brian St. Cyr
Young Suk Suh
Jenna Spevack
Augusta Wood
Michelle Weinberg
and others
Danica's press:
Johnson, Ken. DanicaPhelps "Funny Money", The New York Times, 12/11/98
Volk, Gregory,Danica Phelps at Jack Tilton, Art in America, 7/99
Halle, Howard, DanicaPhelps, Time Out New York, pg 106, 12/17/98
Danica Phelps appears courtesy of Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery
Opening: Saturday, 24 February - 6-8pm
artisttalk: Saturday, March 24, 2001, 2PM
LFL Gallery - 531 West 26th Street, 4th Floor - New York, NY - Tel: 212 6317700 - Fax: 212 6317705