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Dennis Dawson at VOLTA13
Dennis Dawson (represented by frosch&portmann, New York) reuses and rearranges media unearthed from consumer catalogues and other magazines, particularly loose pages that bear some prior purpose. By using material already existing materials, Dawson contributes to a dialogue of shared experience and interconnection.
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Pacifico Silano at VOLTA NY 17
Pacifico Silano reworks and collages imagery sourced from vintage gay pornography magazines and preserved in Plexiglas slabs, which thereupon become stand-ins for gay men lost to the AIDS epidemic. Featured in the traveling institutional exhibition Art AIDS America, which was shown locally at the Bronx Museum of Art last year, Silano’s Arrangements project is presented by Rubber Factory (New York, both […]
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Fannie Allié at VOLTA12
Fanny Allié (presented by Fresh Window,Brooklyn) engages outlines of the human form — from collage to emotive neon installations — to question our relationship to our bodies and social movements, as well as the intrinsic memories contained within and in our absence. Fanny Allié, Horses, 2015
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The Copenhagen Interpretation
In the vibrant, emergent neighborhood of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, some of the most exciting contemporary art is evolving and being seen. It’s no surprise, then, that a new kind of gallery would spring up, playing to more alternative and intimate tastes than those of the “white cube” variety housed in Chelsea or the Upper […]
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[Eye for An I] presents Jimmy Ray Flynn
Memorable highlights in his life include, “experiencing” his idol Jimi Hendrix at the Boston Garden in ‘68. Getting knocked on his ass by Paul Newman during the hockey auditions for Slapshot in ’76 and very nearly killing a young Quentin Tarantino, during a scene from Sam Shepard’s True West, while a member of Allen Garfield’s […]
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Vincent Junier: Cut Out Life
Vincent Junier began working with collage ten years ago by accident. While recovering from a scooter injury, he was unable to use a computer and out of boredom began cutting out pictures. The discovery of collage was an awakening for the artist and from that day on he hasn’t stopped. Like some artists, my […]