The Future is Ow
Susie Rosmarin
El Franco Lee II
Paul Kremer
Mark Flood
Chris Bexar
JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 6, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION:
Marlborough Gallery (Chelsea)
25 street: 545 W 25 street
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 6-8 PM
Front and end snips from the Press Release:
All the artists in The Future is Ow currently live and work in Houston. All were part of the experimental gallery Mark Flood Resents. This gallery had a series of shows, in Chelsea and Miami Beach, that showed NFS art from Mark Flood's personal collection. El Franco Lee had a solo show, Susie Rosmarin was part of the show Irrational Women, and Paul Kremer and Chris Bexar were featured in the show Emotionally Unavailable Men. Mark Flood wrote the press releases and paid the rent. The Future is Ow concerns the fact that all these artists make digitally printed paintings as part of their practice. The Future is Ow title is irrational, but it might be about people saying Ow! when they don't get to look at their precious brushstrokes anymore.
...The exhibition also includes a video by Mark Flood,created in 2012 in NYC, in which Adam Rodriguez
reads Flood's poem White Cube. The content of the poem is relevant to the design of the exhibition....The Future Is Ow Exhibition Design
Posted by Dennis at January 6, 2016 8:11 AM
The Future is Ow makes an attempt to extend and distort the usual white cube gallery exhibit strategy. Of course, rejecting the white cube is itself a cliche. Everybody hates the white cube, but let's review why. It's because it makes the art world look like a lab where disinterested scientists with no issues are looking at a sterilized specimen. Because it makes art look like one more item on an endless schedule of items. Because it drains the meaning out of the art by creating an atmosphere of Nothing really matters here because authority figures have already figured everything out. Etc. For further information see the White Cube poem/video. Even though the show title mentions The Future, I decided not to try to make Marlborough Chelsea into some futuristic movie set because... Why bother? I evoke the Future more as an improvised refugee center with a lot of crummy furniture and TVs for people to watch so they don't get too restless. That sounds a lot like how the Mark Flood Resents gallery was set up, so I include some of the black plastic lattices that gallery used. They control light and visual access.
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