Exhibits

This a Way

January 10 – March 28, 2015

 
 
Julia Benjamin
Ernst Fischer
Cooper Jacoby
Marina Pinsky
Rachel Rose
Walter Smith
 
Organized by Sebastian Black

 

Dear All,


I run, though limp is probably a more apt term, an exhibition program out of my studio in Sunset Park called Malraux’s Place (pronounced Melrose Place). To do so effectively I bought a domain name, which housed a cut and pasted tickertape of clumsy HTML, and a digital SLR which I still don’t really know how to use. To be honest I never read the Malraux I was assigned as an undergraduate but I somehow remembered the coinage “museum without walls” and since I was initially allocating only a single wall of my studio for programming it seemed as good a name as any. Everything was ready to go, in that I had a name, a space, and the technological means to project both into the non-space of the screen.

I once saw a group show about screens at a perfectly respectable gallery in Chelsea. All the art had screens on it. That was the show. I kind of liked it, but I probably would have liked it a little better if a couple of the works didn’t have screens on them. Then again who am I to judge? I’m no curator. Actually – now that curated has become the parlance of everyone from cheesemongers to listicle scrivners – I am happy to tell you that I’ve had the chance to organize a show in which some of the artworks have screens on them, and some of the artworks don’t. This is that show, and its at White Flag Projects.

Actually none of the artworks “have screens on them” come to think of it. Rather some inhabit screens and some don’t. Don’t worry though, this show traces a few more specific associations as well. For example: Some of the artists share alma matters and their subsequent debt collectors, some share walls and electricity bills. I assume we all share an increasingly overbearing dread of global calamity and environmental collapse, and I know all the artists share my friendship and admiration. This is a better description of Malraux’s Place then the cynical one offered in the first paragraph so perhaps I’d better end the text here.


Best,


Sebastian Black

 

publication 

 
  • TAW1a
    • Installation view with works by Ernst Fischer and Marina Pinksy
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  • TAW2a
    • Installation view with works Julia Benjamin and Marina Pinsky
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  • TAW3a
    • Installation view
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  • TAW4a
    • Installation view with works by Walter Smith
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  • TAWrrREV1
    • Installation view with work by Rachel Rose
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    • Installation view works by Walter Smith, Ernst Fischer, and Cooper Jacoby
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  • TAW7a
    • Installation with works by Ernst Fischer, Marina Pinsky, Julia Benjamin, and Cooper Jacoby
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  • TAW8a
    • Cooper Jacoby
      Extant, 2014
      Nickel-plated steel, 5-cent coins
      Two parts, 68 x 4 x 1 inches each
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  • TAW9a
    • Installation view with works by Julia Benjamin
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  • TAW10a
    • Julia Benjamin
      Untitled, 2013
      Oil on canvas
      19 x 20 inches
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  • TAW11a
    • Julia Benjamin
      Untitled, 2013
      Oil on canvas
      20 x 15 inches
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  • TAW12a
    • Julia Benjamin
      Untitled, 2014
      Oil on canvas
      20 x 9 inches
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  • TAW13a
    • Ernst Fischer
      Untitled (MW), 2014
      Pigment print, acrylic flatscreen components, screws
      20 1/2 x 13 inches
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  • TAW14a
    • Marina Pinsky
      Decoy, 2014
      Mixed media
      12 1/2 x 72 x 48 inches
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  • TAWRRREV2
    • Rachel Rose
      Mini Minute Ago, 2014
      HD video, carpet, headphones, mini-wall, mini-carpet, headphone amp, projector
      dimensions variable
      8 minutes 43 seconds
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  • TAW16a
    • Walter Smith
      Transformers Quattro, 2014
      Ink and collage on cotton rag paper in artist?s frame
      34 x 26 x 1 5/8 inches
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  • TAW17a
    • Walter Smith
      Shrek Two, 2014
      Ink, oil, graphite, and collage on cotton rag paper
      34 x 26 x 1 5/8 inches
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  • TAW18a
    • Walter Smith
      The Phantom Menace, 2014
      Ink, oil, and collage on cotton rag paper in artist?s frame
      34 x 26 x 1 5/8 inches
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  • TAW19a
    • Walter Smith
      il Cinema, 2014
      Ink and collage on cotton rag paper in artist?s frame
      34 x 26 x 1 5/8 inches
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  • TAWx
    • Ernst Fischer
      Enhanced Interrogation, 2014
      Animated desktop
      8 minutes 54 seconds
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  • TAWrr3
    • Rachel Rose
      Still from Mini Minute Ago, 2014
      HD video, carpet, headphones, mini-wall, mini-carpet, headphone amp, projector
      dimensions variable
      8 minutes 43 seconds
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  • TAW20a
    • Cooper Jacoby
      Detail of Extant, 2014
      Nickel-plated steel, 5-cent coins
      Two parts, 68 x 4 x 1 inches each
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  • TAW21a
    • Julia Benjamin
      Detail of Untitled, 2013
      Oil on canvas
      19 x 20 inches
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  • TAW22a
    • Ernst Fischer
      Large Void, 2014
      Digital print on vinyl
      154 x 154 inches
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  • TAW23a
    • Ernst Fischer
      Large Void, 2014
      Digital print on vinyl
      154 x 154 inches
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