I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I cannot penetrate or name.
Organized by Loring Randolph
June 25 – August 7
Opening June 25, 6-8pm
Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce our first summer group exhibition in the new gallery on 27th street. The title “I am attracted none the less...” introduces the unexplainable phenomena that lies at the heart of the exhibition – the notion that there is a visceral, transcendental connection that is experienced with certain images and objects. Possibly, a reason why many of us find ourselves so attracted to art.
In a humble effort to explore this power of transference and the respective ability to extend or impart this energy given materiality, process, and evocation, works were chosen by artists Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, N. Dash, Jay DeFeo, Jason Dodge, Haris Epaminonda, Eloise Hawser, Dwyer Kilcollin, Nancy Lupo, Jean-Luc Moulène, David Nilson, Anna-Bella Papp, Diego Perrone, Hugh Scott-Douglas, and Phillip Zach to convey a shared tactile pull. What resulted were diverse media that possess familiar forms – of our bodies, the objects that we surround ourselves with, the landscapes of this world – yet in other respects are strange and alien. The mediation or translation across media by the artists is registered through process, material and experience, without being overt or requiring a clear connection to each of their unique lives. The works do not embrace spectacle nor do they convey easily identifiable moments in time.
Maybe for a moment, time is suspended.
The hands of the clock from the city hall in Le Havre, France have fallen from their place in the sky and lie side by side on the gallery floor. A street lamp is eternally on and a skeletal form hangs from the wall, which we know within the present, but seems to have been unearthed from Pompeii. Waterfalls position themselves in space on pause as if to defy gravity. 250 years pass before the light from Spica, the 14th brightest binary star we can see in the night sky, reaches our eyes. The earth beneath our feet is displaced to the wall and into various other forms. Koi fish find a pond within a cheek, a father from the future was standing here, and a woman stares out at us, but we are not connected somehow.
We see into a black void. The floor undulates. Is that the moon?
The title of the exhibition is from Robert Hayden’s 1978 poem, “American Journal.” It is the wording of the last line.
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (1979) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. N. Dash (1980) was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She lives and works in New York and New Mexico. Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. Jason Dodge (1969) was born in Newton, Pennsylvania. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Haris Epaminonda (1980) was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She lives and works in Berlin. Eloise Hawser (1985) was born and works in London, United Kingdom. Dwyer Kilcollin (1983) was born in Chicago, Illinois. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Nancy Lupo (1983) was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. She also lives and works in Los Angeles. Jean-Luc Moulène (1955) was born in Reims, France. He lives and works in Paris. David Nilson (1982) was boring in Yngsjö, Sweden. He lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Anna-Bella Papp (1988) was born in Chi?ineu-Cri?, Romania. She lives and works in Rome, Italy. Diego Perrone (1970) was born in Asti, Italy. He lives and works in Asti and Milan. Hugh Scott-Douglas (1988) was born in Cambridge, UK. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Phillip Zach (1984) was born in Cottbus, Germany, and is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland.
l'Atalante
2015
Glass casting
27.6 x 33.5 x 6.3" / 70 x 85 x 16cm
l'Atalante
2015 (detail)
Vessel VI
2015
Resin and stone
13 x 8 x 8" / 33 x 20.3 x 20.3cm
Untitled
2015
Silver gelatin print
24 x 20"/ 60.96 x 50.8cm
Selection
2012
C-print
15 x 11.75" / 38.1 x 29.8cm, Framed: 22 x 18.3" / 56 x 46.5cm
wave (peak-to-peak)
2014
Wool felt, wood, madder root, osage orange, indigo, cochineal, Mimosa hostilis root bark powder, chinese ink, acid dye, soda ash, thiox, alum, copper, Glauber's salt, bran, calcium carbonate, urea
8.5 x 150 x 30"/ 21.59 x 381 x 76.2cm
wave (peak-to-peak)
2014 (detail)
Untitled
2015
UV cured inkjet print on dibond
80 x 53" / 203.2 x 134.6cm
Untitled
2015 (detail)
Untitled #01 a/x
2015
Framed found book page
11 x 8.5" / 27.9 x 21.5cm, Framed: 12.5 x 10" / 31.8 x 25.4cm
Untitled #03 a/x
2015
Framed found book page
12.75 x 9.75" / 32.4 x 24.8cm, Framed: 14.25 x 11.25" / 36.2 x 28.6cm
Bouquet, Edda (elder)
2015
Resin, feldspar, calcium carbonate, quartz, silica, glass, lazurite
24 x 18 x 19" / 60.9 x 45.7 x 48.3cm
Untitled
2015
UV cured inkjet print on dibond
80 x 53" / 203.2 x 134.6cm
Untitled
2015 (detail)
Untitled #06 m/g (II)
2015
Free standing found book page (one side color / one side monochrome), glass, wooden plinth
Dimensions variable
Untitled #06 m/g (II)
2015 (detail)
Untitled #04 a/x (n.111)
2015
Framed found book page
12.3 x 10.7" / 31.2 x 27.2cm Framed: 13.8 x 12.2" / 35.1 x 31cm
11:58
2013
Steel, epoxy, lightbulb, cable
98.4 x 13.8 x 13.8" / 250 x 35 x 35cm
11:58
2013 (detail)
Untitled (White Spica)
1973
Cut gelatin silver print, 6.4 x 4.4" / 16.2 x 11.1cm, Framed: 17 x 15" / 43.2 x 38.1cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Untitled
2012
Clay, 2 x 8.6 x 10.9" / 5 x 22 x 27.5cm
Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
Untitled
2013
Clay, .75 x 9.9 x 12.4" / 2 x 25 x 31.5cm
Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
Untitled
2012
Clay, 1.1 x 9.1 x 12.6" / 3 x 23 x 32cm
Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
Untitled
2012
Clay, .75 x 11.1 x 14.6" / 2 x 28.3 x 37cm
Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
Untitled
2011
Clay, .75 x 9.9 x 12.6" / 2 x 25 x 32cm
Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.
on my body
2012
C-type photograph
15 x 11.75" / 38.1 x 29.8cm, Framed: 22 x 18.3" / 56 x 46.5cm
Untitled #02 a/x
2015
Framed found book page
9.75 x 7.2" / 24.8 x 18.3cm, Framed: 10.75 x 8.2" / 27.3 x 20.8cm
Driving, Flying and Zoo
2012
Eps foam, paper and Mod Podge
32 x 60 x 24" / 81.3 x 152.4 x 61cm
Driving, Flying and Zoo
2012 (detail)
Untitled
1972
Gelatin silver print, 4.4 x 3" / 11.1 x 7.6cm, Framed: 16.75 x 13.75" / 42.5 x 34.9cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Reflections of Africa
1987
Graphite and acrylic on paper, 11 x 14” / 27.9 x 35.6cm, Framed: 19.25 x 21.75” / 48.9 x 55.2cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Untitled
1987
Photocopy, 11 x 7.4" / 27.9 x 18.7cm, Framed: 17.75 x 13.75" / 45.1 x 34.9cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Reflections of Africa
1987
Graphite, oil pastel and acrylic on paper, 11 x 14" / 27.9 x 35.6cm, Framed: 19.25 x 21.75" / 48.9 x 55.2cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Untitled
1975
Gelatin silver print, 4.3 x 4.25" / 11 x 10.8cm, Framed: 14 x 13.5" / 35.6 x 34.3cm
© The Jay DeFeo Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Untitled
2015
Adobe, oil, acrylic, gesso, string, linen, jute and wood support
84.5 x 27" / 214.6 x 68.58cm
Untitled
2015 (detail)
The arms of the clock from the city hall (Le Havre France) pointing north
Viviane (Paris, May 2, 1999)
2001
Cibachrome mounted on aluminum
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges. Courtesy the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Untitled
2014
Elastomeric rubber
4 x 12 x 4.25" / 10.2 x 30.5 x 10.8cm each
Untitled
2014
Silver point and airbrush on board
19.7 x 27.6" / 50 x 70cm
Blown Knot 3.1 Varia 03 (CIRVA, Marseille, 2012)
2012
Glass, 47.25 x 11.4 x 10.4" / 120 x 29 x 26.5cm
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges. Courtesy the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Rack
2013
Dish racks, teacup shaped plate, Magic-Sculpt, Fresh Step kitty litter and hooks
62 x 11 x 10" / 157.5 x 27.9 x 25.4cm
Rack
2013 (detail)
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