The Gavin Brown Enterprise's booth at Frieze.
Photo: Courtesy of Marco Scozzaro/Frieze
Gavin Brown's booths tend to try harder to be interesting than
most — and usually succeed. In 2013, Brown had horror-camp artist Bjarne
Melgaard paint the walls of his Frieze New York booth magenta and fill
its labyrinthe arrangement with heaps of neon fleece carpets that made
it difficult to walk (sort of a "fuck you" to fairgoers in heels — but
then again, the carpets were also for sale, at $12,000 each). In 2012,
the booth's centerpiece was Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled (Kramer and Newman Make Sausage), a performance in which Brown and the actor Mark Ruffalo grilled sausages and offered them to passersby.
On
May 13, the booth resembled something between a sweatshop and a
day-care center as attendees who managed to snag a pass to the VIP
preview clustered at four collapsible tables, pushing black acrylic
paint into eight-inch-diameter circles on square-foot canvases.
Attendants behind them used ladders to mount their labors in seven
50-by-50 clusters, each a small work that became part of a bigger one.
For the labor, each volunteer willing to make Horowitz’s art for him was
compensated with a check for 20 bucks.
Jonathan Horowitz with his work.
Photo: @openingceremony
(Not that they were supposed to be cashed: Participants were mostly
keeping the checks to be framed, as a Jonathan Horowitz piece. If you
did decide to take it to the bank to exchange for an Andrew Jackson,
Gavin Brown will see you cashed it and will either think you're
punk-rock or a no-class cheapskate. Up to you to risk it.).....read more;
http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/artist-pays-art-insiders-20-to-make-his-art.html
Lectures, Panels, and Dialogues ARTIST TALK | 6:30 pm Dana Schutz and Jeremy Sigler Artist Dana Schutz speaks with poet, sculptor, and critic Jeremy Sigler as they bring together their unique perspectives to consider Schutz's work of the last ten years found in the exhibition Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels . Sigler is Associate Editor of Parkett and has published five books of poetry, most recently, Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail 2010). In his 2007 Brooklyn Rail review of her work, he compared the simultaneous brutality and resolve of many of Schutz's canvases to an array of his own emphatic art and pop culture references. Dana Schutz received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; and Site Santa Fe...
All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain:Choices , opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available. GO read more
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