Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

BANK
Fax-back (NY: Marianne Boesky Gallery)

1999
Pen and ink on paper
8.6 x 11.125 inches

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

BANK
Fax-back (NY: Sonnabend)

1999
Pen and ink on paper
8.6 x 11.125 inches

BANK
Fax-back (NY: 303 GALLERY)

1999
Pen and ink on paper
8.6 x 11.125 inches

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view
Château Shatto

Chambre d’Hotel

1980
Oil and charcoal on canvas, wooden frame
47.5 x 61 x 1.5 in / 120.65 x 154.94 x 3.8 cm

Jacqueline de Jong
Baked Potatoes

2006
Glazed ceramic, wire
Dimensions variable

Jacqueline de Jong
Baked Potatoes

2006
Detail

Jacqueline de Jong
Baked Potatoes

2006
Detail

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Irving Norman
Liberation War Prisoners

1970-71
Oil on canvas
72 x 90 in / 182.9 x 228.6 cm

Bruno Pélassy
Sans titre, Sang titre, Cent titres

1995
Original VHS copy
45 minutes
Installation view

Bruno Pélassy
Sans titre, Sang titre, Cent titres

1995
Video still

Bruno Pélassy
Sans titre, Sang titre, Cent titres

1995
Video still

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Dried potatoes, 18kt gold plating, handmade box
Dimensions variable

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Dried potatoes, 18kt gold plating, handmade box
Dimensions variable

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Detail

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Dried potatoes, 18kt gold plating, handmade box
Dimensions variable

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Dried potatoes, 18kt gold plating, handmade box
Dimensions variable

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Detail

Jacqueline de Jong
Pommes de Jong

2008-11
Dried potatoes, 18kt gold plating, handmade box
Dimensions variable

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven
A Project by Triple Candie

2016
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation view

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven

2016
Installation detail

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven

2016
Installation detail

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven

2016
Installation detail

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven

2016
Installation detail

Pieces from the Harrogate Seven

2016
Installation detail

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view

Georgina Starr
There’s Something Going on in the Sculpture Studio

1995
Single channel video
4.15 minutes
Video still

Georgina Starr
There’s Something Going on in the Sculpture Studio

1995
Video still

Georgina Starr
The Unglenny

1994
Facsimile of an original fax sent from Georg Herold’s studio in Cologne to Georgina Starr’s studio in Amsterdam in 1994
Ink on paper
8.25 x 11.5 in / 21 x 29.2 cm

Lionel

2016
Caviar and acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in / 30.5 x 40.65 cm
Copy by Homo Schlongee of Georg Harold's Lionel Richie, 2011
Caviar and acrylic on canvas

Head Gallery
Untitled

2016
Concrete, steel, wood, car bumper, plastic, mannequin, modified sweatsuits, eggs, acrylic paint, books, various materials Dimensions variable
Installation view

Head Gallery
Untitled

2016
Installation view

Head Gallery
Untitled

2016
Installation view

Head Gallery
Untitled

2016
Installation detail

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view in reading room

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view in reading room

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view in reading room

Bruno Pélassy
Un grand saignement

1994
VHS transferred to DVD
35.38 minutes
Installation view

Bruno Pélassy
Un grand saignement

1994
Video still

Bruno Pélassy
Un grand saignement

1994
Video still

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view in reading room

Jacqueline de Jong
Explosion 1917

2014
Oil and ground pumice stone on canvas
51 x 67.5 in / 129.5 x 171.5 cm

Intimate Wine Reception

2016
Installation view in reading room

Jacqueline de Jong
QuasyModo and Queen Kong

1981
Silkscreen on Japanese paper
48 x 32 in / 121.9 x 81.3 cm
Edition 3 of 35

OPENING BRUNCH
Sunday, March 20, 2016
12 – 4 pm

Georgina Starr

Triple Candie

Irving Norman

BANK

Jacqueline de Jong

Bruno Pelassy

Head Gallery

Robin James (its-her-factory.com)

+ library in the basement

TRIPLE CANDIE

Founded in 2001, Triple Candie is a research-oriented, independent curatorial agency – run by two art historians – that produces exhibitions about art but largely devoid of it.  Their past exhibitions have included, among many others, unauthorized retrospectives on Cady Noland,  David Hammons and James Lee Byars.  Triple Candie will be presenting home furnishings, artifacts, and a short story related to the Harrogate Seven (H7), a collective from Yorkshire, England. The collective produces wallpaper and fabric designs using images it cuts from picture books. H7 advances the legacy of William Morris, but in an anachronistic, fictional form.  

GEORGINA STARR

Georgina Starr’s There’s Something Going On in The Sculpture Studio traces a long “collaboration” between herself and the German artist Georg Herold.  Beginning in 1994 with a mysterious image that Herold faxed her, Starr responded by setting up a secret video camera and following the artist as he arrives for a visit two years later to Starr’s studio in London.  There’s Something Going On In The Sculpture Studio also doubles as a homage to the music video for Lionel Richie’s “Hello”, which is the soundtrack for the piece. Years later, Herold continued the dialogue by creating Lionel, a portrait of Lionel Richie out of caviar. 

IRVING NORMAN

Irving Norman was born in Russian-controlled Vilna in 1906, emigrated to the United States as a teenager, trained first as a barber, fought to defend the Spanish Republic, then trained as a painter, a practice he continued until his death in 1989. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Often captioned as a ‘social Surrealist,’ Irving Norman’s monumental and regimented paintings are frightening critiques of the military industrial complex, social injustice and urban life in the 20th century. His work depicts power and violence as highly organized regimes, where human subjects are vanquished; often emaciated or dismembered. Per many of Norman’s paintings, the Teutonic figure of authority in Liberation War Prisoners assumes a mechanical posture and his victims are disrobed, while further suffering subjects are encased in the background scenery. 

HEAD GALLERY

Head Gallery is based in New York and Shanghai. It advises collectors, appraises antiques, bankrupts sponsors, gives out MAs in curatorial practice, commissions spiritual tracts, does expert restoration where apoc-damage is concerned, plans corporate events and retreats, disappears interns, holds alcohol support group sessions, funds Scottish nationalists, and produces bestiality instruction videos. It is also dedicated to producing critical art texts and troll feeds that are split between a written textual element located on the website, expanded press releases, or exhibition description, and materialized elements installed in galleries. It operates in between a future set in 2078, and the present.

BANK

BANK was an artists’ group active in London in the 1990s.  They exhibited collectively and ran the spaces BANKSPACE, DOG, and Gallerie Poo-Poo.  Their activities frequently took the form of large, chaotic group exhibitions that often lampooned the contemporary art scene at the time.  Arguably their most well-known project are the Fax-backs, which consisted of correcting and “grading” gallery press releases and faxing them back.  Included in this show are Fax-backs from 1999 sent to 303 Gallery, Sonnabend and Marianne Boesky with work by Karen Kilimnik, Ashley Bickerton and Takashi Murakami.

JACQUELINE DE JONG

de Jong is often discussed in relation to her long and varied engagement with the historical avant garde of the 20th century: joining the Situationists in 1960 at the age of 20, her solidarity with Gruppe SPUR, her companionship with Asger Jorn, her publishing the Situationist Times (after being expelled by Debord)…but throughout all this, de Jong has maintained a prolific career as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and graphic designer; her work often embracing violent and erotic subject matter. In contrast, her recent Pommes de Jong take as their form the humble potato, first as suspended ceramic (adult potato) and then as chic, 18k golden unique baby potatoes which can be worn as jewelry. Intimate Wine Reception also receives two of de Jong’s paintings and a screen print. Her painting style can swerve across many registers. Chambres d’ Hotel (1980) unfolds a gruesome interior scenario and Explosion 1917 (2014) depicts war and its shadowy theatre.

BRUNO PELASSY

Bruno Pelassy’s work is contained to a timeframe of just over 10 years, as the artist’s death came prematurely at the age of 36. His work employs his skill-sets, including the construction of textiles and jewelry, delivering tender, grotesque, ornamental and characteristic traits to Pelassy’s sculptures. The more haunting aspects of his work are revealed in the video Sans titre, Sang titre, Cent titre (1995) which captures footage from a range of sources, edited simply by recording straight onto the VHS tape from a VCR. As the work is shown, it progressively degrades and eventually the image will vanish from the tape altogether. Un grand saignement (1994) documents Pelassy’s série des bestioles: flamboyant, mechanical sculptures that writhe and gyrate, each with its own mannerisms. 

DAVID IRELAND is a ghost whose absence haunts the gallery, trapped by distracted gatekeepers, he longs to be set free…