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�Drawing Conclusions II� Work by Artist-Writers
Organized by Gae Savannah & Jill Conner
December 12, 2003 � January 13, 2004
Opening Reception: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 6-8:30 pm
Toward the end of the Modern Era, strictly endorsing abstraction, mid-century American art criticism leveraged itself over contemporary art. A variety of artistic styles went largely unrecognized for at least a decade. The critical endeavors on view in this exhibition transcend the schism created between written ideas and artistic form. In addition to finding common ground between art and literature, this event merges the practice of art and art criticism that typically operate in juxtaposition to one another.
�An understanding of the ways in which image, frame, caption, and text routinely conspire together to present an inevitability about the objective world allows us to re-order and reconstruct the relationship between these components, and thereby to contribute to the creation of an infra-reflexive text which crosses over between the visual and verbal domains.� -- Elizabeth Chaplain, Sociology and Visual Representation
Artist-Writers participating (in process): Koan-Jeff Baysa, NY; Tova Beck-Friedman, NY; Matthew Bourbon, TX; Roger Boyce, NY; David Carbone, NY; David Colosi, NY; James Croak, NY; Sarah Crowner, NY; Carol Diehl, NY; Jan Estep, MN; Lily Faust, NY; Laurie Fendrich, NY; Sabine von Fischer, NY/Switzerland; Kyongho Ko, Korea; Suvan Geer, CA; Sabrina Gschwandtner, NY; Charles Giuliano, NY; Doug Harvey, CA; Mary Hrbacek, NY; Jens Kabisch, Germany; Jitish Kallat, India; Mary Jean Kenton, PA; Richard Klein, CT; Robert Knafo, NY; Joyce Korotkin, NY; Richard Kostelanetz, NY; Melissa Kuntz, NY; Claire Lieberman, IL; D. Dominick Lombardi, NY; Virginia Maksymowicz, NY; Lenore Malen, NY; Lev Manovich, CA; Emil Memon, NY; John Mendelsohn, NY; Gregory A. Montreuil, NY/France; Peter Nagy, India; Hideki Nakazawa, Japan; Joseph Nechvatal, NY; Alastair Noble, PA; John O�Brien, CA; Olu Oguibe, CT; Katsura Okada, NY; Oscar Satio Oiwa, Japan; Michael Pittari, PA; Faith Ringgold, NY; Steve Rockwell, Canada; David S. Rubin, LA; Edward Rubin, NY; Carol Schwarzman, NY; Jinsil Seo, Korea; Greg Shelnutt, NC; Ali Soltani, NY; Christopher Stackhouse, NY; Anita Steckel, NY; Howard Stier, NY; LP Streitfeld, CT; Vivan Sundaram, India; Bruce Wands, NY; Burton Wasserman, NJ; Esme Watanabe, NY; Michelle Weinberg, FL; Jeanne Wilkinson, NY; Kathleen Whitney, TX; Eve Wood, CA; Tan Xu, China; and Jody Zellen, CA.
*Acknowledgements � Many thanks to Judy Collischan for designing the concept of this show. Additional thanks to Glenn Harper, Robert Curcio, Kazue Soma, Kristin Anderson, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Frank, Caroline Cox, Su Jin Park, Jenn Tsai, Lilly Wei, Gu ZhenQing, Laura Richard Janku, Caren Golden, Abraham Lubelski, Sueo Mizuma, Valerie MacKenzie, Larry Walczak, Wenjia Wang, and Manami Fujimori.
Gae Savannah, sculptor/installation artist, writes for Flash Art, Sculpture, and d�ART among other publications.
Jill Conner writes for Artnet, Sculpture, Contemporary, and NY Arts among other publications.
Contact: Jill Conner at (718) 703-0803, [email protected] or
Gae Savannah at (212) 254-5423, [email protected] .