Alexander Duke
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The FLAG Art Foundation
The ongoing exhibition called Dime-Store Alchemy from 6.5-8.17 2018, on the 9th floor. The exhibition features 24 contemporary artists who elevate everyday objects through the framing devices of cabinets, shelves and containers.
The 10th floor is connected by a staircase in the middle of showroom of the 9th. They are presenting Genevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency, the LA based artist’s first NY solo exhibition. The exhibition of new self-portraits and collages, all created in Florida, continues Gaignard’s interest in the performance of race, gender presentation, beauty standards, and class, through fictional personas and staged environments. The title, Counterfeit Currency, addresses the inherent complexities of self-presentation, noting that the way one appears to others is often incongruent with the way in which they see themselves, yielding a feeling of displacement and fraudulence.
Through a variety of female archetypes, Gaignard explores her own existence as a mixed-race woman of color, revealing the malleability of identity as something both self-constructed and culturally affected. In addition to photographic works, the artist will also present a new series of collages that combine vintage wallpaper and magazine cutouts to render dreamlike and satirical narratives.
It's really worth a visit. Don't miss out for whom likes art.
The 10th floor is connected by a staircase in the middle of showroom of the 9th. They are presenting Genevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency, the LA based artist’s first NY solo exhibition. The exhibition of new self-portraits and collages, all created in Florida, continues Gaignard’s interest in the performance of race, gender presentation, beauty standards, and class, through fictional personas and staged environments. The title, Counterfeit Currency, addresses the inherent complexities of self-presentation, noting that the way one appears to others is often incongruent with the way in which they see themselves, yielding a feeling of displacement and fraudulence.
Through a variety of female archetypes, Gaignard explores her own existence as a mixed-race woman of color, revealing the malleability of identity as something both self-constructed and culturally affected. In addition to photographic works, the artist will also present a new series of collages that combine vintage wallpaper and magazine cutouts to render dreamlike and satirical narratives.
It's really worth a visit. Don't miss out for whom likes art.
Gagosian
Swiss artist Urs Fischer who lives in NYC, his 10-ft tall 3D-scanned aluminum rhino sculpture displayed at Gagosian Art Gallery was fantastic! There are some daily THINGS such as printer, purse and even car door cross over each other, it's aimed at expressing that we kinda exist like this rhino, involved in different THINGS in our daily lives, but all these THINGS have gradually become our concrete or abstract burdens...
Gagosian
The 18-ft long tiger shark which was preserved in formalin called 《The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living》worth $8 million dollars by British artist Damien Hirst. So lucky to see it before deadline of his show.