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Chris Daze Ellis
Daze first emerged in the late 1970s as a graffiti artist, working largely with a community centered around the alternative arts space Fashion Moda. During that period, Daze was included in the seminal “Beyond Words” exhibition at the Mudd Club, which connected graffiti with work more traditionally considered fine art.
Since then, Daze has developed a studio practice, making works that are inspired by the iconography of New York City and his time as a street artist.
PACE
Robert Ryman
Ryman (b. 1930, Nashville, TN) attended the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. After enlisting in the United States Army (1950–52), he moved to New York to play jazz. In 1953 he took a temporary job—where he would ultimately work for seven years—as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art. Soon after, he would decide to devote his career towards painting. For more than five decades, Robert Ryman has been engaged in an ongoing experiment with painting. He constantly seeks to modify his approach, resisting the comfort of tendency and maintaining the freshness of an unchartered territory. From each experience Ryman gleans the variables for a revised proposition and the impetus to propel him towards his next move. Since Ryman’s first solo exhibition in 1967, his work has been the subject of over 100 solo exhibitions in 12 countries.
Yancey Richardson
Rachel Perry
Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Rachel Perry’s Soundtrack to My Life, the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Throughout her career, Perry has used familiar materials such as register receipts, produce stickers, shopping bags and voicemail messages to comment on what she calls “the business of living.” Comprised of a series of large-scale collages based on the lyrics of popular songs, Soundtrack To My Life continues Perry’s interest in observing, collecting and utilizing the pedestrian materials and experiences of daily life to comment on the permeation of daily existence by consumer culture.
Mathew Marks Gallery
Robert Gober
Robert Gober (b. 1954) has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including Documenta, the Whitney Biennial, and the Carnegie International. Other one-person exhibitions have been organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Schaulager in Basel. Currently “An Untitled Installation Conceived by Robert Gober,” originally presented in 1988 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, has been recreated by the Aspen Museum of Art, where it remains on view through May.
Thomas Demand
The first room is installed with a new wallpaper created by Demand for the exhibition. On it several new Dailies photographs are hanging. Each Daily depicts an everyday scene originally captured by the artist on his cell phone. Re-created in paper and cardboard, each scene was then photographed and printed using the dye-transfer process. Elsewhere, on a pair of separate video monitors suspended from the ceiling, two short films play on continuous loop. The films were created through a similar process, starting out as paper models before being photographed and animated in stop motion.
The exhibition’s second room, accessed through a door at the back of the space, includes four new large-scale photographs. Ruine / Ruin(2017), nearly ten feet wide, is based on a news photo of a domestic interior filled with debris from an aerial bombardment. The only sign of the home’s residents is a stray sandal visible in the rubble. Werkstatt / Workshop (2017) presents the orderly interior of a violin-maker’s studio. Based on historical photos from a Bavarian village celebrated since the seventeenth century for its exceptional violins, the image includes racks of tools and dozens of instruments in various stages of completion.
Jack Shainman Gallery
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was one of the seminal figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life. In addition, Parks was also a celebrated composer, author, and filmmaker who interacted with many of the most prominent people of his era – from politicians and artists to celebrities and athletes.
Barkley Hendricks
Barkley L. Hendricks was a painter and photographer best known for his realist and post-modern portraits of people of color living in urban areas beginning in the 1960s and 70s and continuing to the present. Trevor Schoonmaker, the organizing curator for Hendricks’ traveling exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool said, “His bold portrayal of his subject’s attitude and style elevates the common person to celebrity status. Cool, empowering, and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks’ artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today’s younger generation of artists.”
