Regarding Clementine
Clementine Gallery announces the opening of a group exhibition curated
by Choire Sicha entitled
Regarding Clementine which will feature new
work by
- Nina Katchadourian
- Jennifer Dalton
- Eric Heist
- Jonathan Ames
- Patrick Bucklew
- Chuck Nanney
- Type A
- Cindy Workman
- Joy Garnett
- Eliot Shepard
- Courtney Tramposh
- Greg Allen
- Fort Necessity
Clementine Gallery is located at 526 West 26 Street, 2nd fl, New York.
Regarding Clementine will run from January 6 - February 5, 2005, and will be on view during regular gallery hours, Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 pm and by appointment. A closing reception for the public will be held on Friday, February 4, 6-8 pm.
Regarding Clementine will take a microcosm – Clementineitself – and exploit it for a discussion of the discomforts and joys of the art industry, the life of artists, the practices of curation and creation, and the ugly-pretty evolution of West Chelsea itself. Art galleries are an intensely private place of public use; they are stores, salons, and, at their best, a home of idealism in a ruthless and sometimes cynical marketplace. Each of the 12 artists or collectives in the show will create new work for (or during) the exhibition. Their work has to do, ultimately, with how art objects get made and priced and bought and viewed and curated and reviewed and, of course, gossiped about. Performances will occur irregularly, and work will be made in the gallery and during the course of the show. A performance schedule will be available at the gallery as it develops.
Nina Katchadourian, Jennifer Dalton, and Eric Heist are something like systems analysts within the art world. For her project at Clementine Dalton will be digging deep in the financial lives of Clementine's artists; Katchadourian likes her jokes both linguistic and anthropomorphic. She’s working up something musical and special that addresses quality of life for artists. A novelist and comic performer, Jonathan Ames will be joined in an irregular live performance as a work of art – most probably on Saturdays -- by Patrick Bucklew, better known by the moniker “The Mangina.” Chuck Nanney will work live in audio and light at Clementine churning up ideas of pop culture consumption -- and quite possibly playing the theremin. Type A – the two-man collective of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin-- perform masculine competitive and cooperative experiments and projects. They’ll be working on a big new piece for the show which takes on the predatory nature of collecting and art viewing. Cindy Workman utilizes collage to sly effect. She’ll be working part-time at Clementine, soliciting pictures of gallery attendees. Joy Garnett will quote Ruscha to debut a gorgeous series of new paintings, New York’s Chelsea Art District on Fire. Eliot Shepard will be lurking about documenting, then printing photographs of, life in and around the gallery. Courtney Tramposh is a young art student who makes quirky paper constructions and incredibly skilled drawings. Greg Allen is a filmmaker, journalist, and collector; this is his first appearance as an artist in a commercial gallery. Fort Necessity – an irregular and lovely poetry publication by Lily Mazzarella, Cynthia Nelson, Maggie Nelson, and Jennie Portnof -- will curate, with a little audience help, the fifth edition of the journal at the exhibition.
Curator Choire Sicha works as the editorial director of Gawker Media. He writes the weekly Arts & Leisure Guide for the New York Times, and his writing regularly appears in that paper, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer, and elsewhere.
