Time to Hit the Road
dal 18/12/2014 al 9/1/2015
Segnalato da
Adam Joseph Brochstein
Johanna Flato
Adeline de Monseignat
Justin Kaneps
Alexander Getty
Luke Hart
Anna Shen
Luke Kooper
Camila Emson
Marie Kaus
Caroline Cuse
Matthew K.Firpo
Chris Willcox
Nicole Ripka
Daisj Johnson
Parastu
Elliot Ross
Rosanna Bach
Emily Iremonger
Sarah Mendelson
Frances Conde
Sheenagh B. Geoghegan
Genevieve Allison
Sophia Starling
Geoffrey Owen Miller
Tamsin Relly
George Charman
Yana Naidenov
Helen Robinson
Alex Gerson
Matteo Zevi
18/12/2014
Time to Hit the Road
Leila Heller Gallery, New York
The exhibition presents the works by artists who participated in the curator's Land Art Road Trip Residency in summer of 2013 and 2014. During this time the artist spent up a month a time exploring the works of land art by Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Walter de Maria.
Curated
by
Alex
Gerson
and
Matteo
Zevi
Leila
Heller
Gallery
is
pleased
to
present
Time
To
Hit
The
Road,
a
group
exhibition
curated
by
Alex
Gerson
and
Matteo
Zevi.
This
is
the
first
show
in
New
York
City
featuring
works
by
artists
who
participated
in
Gerson
and
Zevi’s
Land
Art
Road
Trip
residency
in
the
summers
of
2013
and
2014.
This
trip
is
a
traveling,
immersive,
residency
program
exploring
works
by
pioneering
Land
Artists
throughout
the
Southwestern
United
States.
In
recognition
of
the
cultural
richness
and
creative
spirit
of
the
“Land
of
Enchantment,”
a
portion
of
all
the
show’s
proceeds
will
benefit
the
Museum
of
New
Mexico
Foundation.
Time
to
Hit
the
Road
is
the
culmination
of
a
great,
collaborative
adventure,
reflecting
the
experiences
of
dozens
of
artists
who
participated
in
the
Gerson
Zevi
Land
Art
Road
Trip.
Over
the
last
two
years,
more
than
sixty
young
artists
participated
in
this
exploration
of
the
open
road,
learning
new
things
about
themselves
and
about
the
world
around
them.
Now,
for
the
first
time,
their
work
will
be
displayed
in
a
group
show at
Leila
Heller
Gallery
in
New
York
City.
Here,
thousands
of
miles
from
the
dirt
roads
and
dusty
cliffs
of
the
desert,
this
remarkable
group
comes
together
once
again
to
show
how
the
creative
journey
has
inspired
their
artistic
practice.
In
the
summers
of
2013
and
2014,
these
artists
spent
up
to
a
month
at
a
time
traveling
together
across
the
Southwest,
exploring
iconic
works
of
land
art
by
Robert
Smithson,
Michael
Heizer,
Nancy
Holt,
and
Walter
de
Maria.
Much
like
the
artists
whose
works
they
visited,
these
new
explorers
spent
days
at
a
time
outdoors,
in
close
contact
with
the
works,
nature,
each
other,
and
little
else.
Retracing
these
steps,
these
road
trips
exposed
this
group
of
artists
to
life-‐changing,
defining
experiences,
continuing
the
legacy
of
pioneering
Land
Artists
who
took
their
practice
beyond
the
confines
of
traditional
studio
or
gallery
settings.
Time
to
Hit
the
Road,
curated
by
Alex
Gerson
and
Matteo
Zevi,
the
leaders
of
the
Land
Art
Road
Trip,
is
an
exploration
of
these
shared
experiences,
and
the
ways
in
which
this
group
of
artists
have
created
and
maintained
creative
dialogues
amongst
each
other.
Following
their
sharp
exposure
to
the
myriad
physical
and
conceptual
dialogues
generated
by
these
trips,
most
of
the
artists
did
not
return
to
their
lives
in
isolation.
Rather,
they
found
their
practices,
their
relationships,
and
their
thoughts
drawn
into
dialogues,
between
themselves
and
with
the
journey
they
had
undertaken.
In
this
show,
many
of
these
discourses
are
revealed,
along
with
the
wide
variety
of
creative
expressions
that
have
resulted.
Image: MARIE KAUS, Study 4 Headstand Study, 2014, Print-Text Multimedia Work
Opening: Friday 19th December 2014
Leila Heller Gallery
568 West 25th Street
Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm