A.C.
dal 27/7/2004 al 2/9/2004
Segnalato da
Karen Azoulay
Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
Benjamin Butler
Matt Keegan
Brendan Cass
Kevin Landers
Soyeon Cho
Pam Lins
Andrea Claire
An Te Liu
Ann Craven
Kori Newkirk
Anne Yuki Eastman
Michelle Segre
Matthew Fisher
Doug Wada
Robert Fontenot
Tobias Wong
27/7/2004
A.C.
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
While many anticipate the arrival of summer and the relaxation of the outdoors, we find irony in the fact that so many people flock indoors once the air thickens and the temperature rises. As an effect, we discover how a mechanical device has caused us to find refuge in our air-conditioned homes and offices, rather than the outdoor environment. Combining critique and humor, this exhibition provides a spectrum of definitions of what it means to be hot or cold as it oscillates according to the projecting ambiance of each work.
Karen Azoulay Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
Benjamin Butler Matt Keegan
Brendan Cass Kevin Landers
Soyeon Cho Pam Lins
Andrea Claire An Te Liu
Ann Craven Kori Newkirk
Anne Yuki Eastman Michelle Segre
Matthew Fisher Doug Wada
Robert Fontenot Tobias Wong
Elizabeth Dee is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition A.C. to take place in the gallery at 545 West 20th Street.
While many anticipate the arrival of summer and the relaxation of the outdoors, we find irony in the fact that so many people flock indoors once the air thickens and the temperature rises. As an effect, we discover how a mechanical device has caused us to find refuge in our air-conditioned homes and offices, rather than the outdoor environment. Combining critique and humor, this exhibition provides a spectrum of definitions of what it means to be hot or cold as it oscillates according to the projecting ambiance of each work.
In the gallery, Tobias Wong divides space and physically changes the environment by creating a light breeze with his wall partition made of fans. An Te Liu pays homage to minimalist construction with his reductive stack of air purifiers. Anne Craven's painting of a horse head in water brings nature indoors as the whistling sound of a Japanese blizzard echoes from a video by Anne Yuki Eastman. Kori Newkirk's neon snowflake appears to melt in the space, while Pam Lins's plaster cloud sculpture floats from the wall. Kevin Landers duct tape and plexi-glass sculpture replicates an impersonation of a fan on a bucket and Doug Wada's painting replicates the Air Conditioner itself.
The juxtaposition of frosty and humid plays out in the relationships between Robert Fontenont's embroidered paintings of word and image, Jodie Vicenta Jacobson's video Damp, frosty paintings by Benjamin Butler, Matthew Fisher and Brendan Cass, drawings by Michelle Segre and the rotating fan projecting images by Matt Keegan. Karen Azoulay uses 70's inspired yarns in her sculptures that border on abstract weather. Andrea Claire's installation with red spray paint and dorm refrigerator offers cool drinks and a soundtrack of the exhibition's opening. In the office, Soyeon Cho physically links outdoor and indoor, natural and produced, by creating a makeshift forest out of found trees, q-tips and plastic dishware that will envelope the front glass office and outdoor façade.
The show will open on Wednesday, July 28th from 6-8PM and run through September 2nd, 2004. Summer gallery hours will be Monday through Thursday from 10 to 5, and Fridays from 10 to 2. The gallery will close for Labor Day weekend from September 3-6.
This show was made possible with the help of gallery interns Lindsay Korotkin, Dana Rothman and Sarah Bachelier. For more information, please contact the gallery at 212-924-7545.
ELIZABETH DEE GALLERY
545 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011