DENIM Exhibition Opens at 80WSE Gallery

NYU's 80WSE Gallery opened Tuesday night with the group show DENIM. Works of sculpture, installation, and photography help creates a seemingly obvious and superficial theme on jeans compelling. This show is the perfect precursor to upcoming Fashion Week. However, denim has not always been in style, as pointed out by curator David Rimanelli. Originally the material was a symbol of the working class that would later grow to represent rebellion in film and culture. Andy Warhol's infamous film Blow Job runs for 35 minutes, as the camera remains focused on the face of actor DeVeren Bookwater who is enjoying assumed oral pleasure from an unseen chap... 

Work on view February 2-March 13 2010 at 80WSE Gallery (80 Washington Square West)

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Image: Andy Warhol's "Sticky Fingers" cover for the Rolling Stones

Tonight: Gallery Opening "DENIM" Curated by David Rimanelli

The 80WSE Gallery is pleased to announce DENIM, an exhibition curated by David Rimanelli, NYU Faculty and Artforum contributor.  DENIM features an eclectic mix of historical and contemporary artists including Knut Asdam, Tom Burr, VALIE EXPORT, K8 Hardy, Hanna Liden and Klara Liden, Jack Pierson, Rob Pruitt, Michael Smith, Andy Warhol, and Karlheinz Weinberger. The artists in DENIM explore the multifarious connotations of a material which began its life as a fabric for work clothes, but has become, over the past few decades, a material for fashion, both instant and high-end couture.  For Rimanelli, however DENIM does not refer only to fashion but is more a psychic material, which sheathes ideas that range from the implicitly erotic to the deeply revolutionary.


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Image courtesy of 80WSE Gallery from the show "DENIM

Abstract America takes over the Saatchi

Saatchi Gallery’s Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture presents a survey of emerging art from the USA. Thirty-two artists are in the exhibition, representing an intriguing new generation of painters and sculptors. With a historical nod to their Abstract Expressionist predecessors of the mid-twentieth century, these artists are heavily influenced by the new digital age.
Abstract America is set to shape our understanding of the work of this vital group of artists, who have absorbed these many aspects of contemporary life and chosen very individual ways to communicate.
Some of the artists included: Kristin Baker, John Bauer, Mark Bradford, Tom Burr, Joe Bradley, Jedediah Caesar, Carter, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Peter Coffin, Guerra de la Paz, Francesca DiMattio and Bart Exposito. Above, Mark Bradford's Kryptonite. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases.

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