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Jason Horowitz Scott archival digital print mounted onto Sintra, 42" x 63", 2007
Gallery Reception: Saturday, May 17 6 - 8 pm in conjunction with the gallery receptions at 1515 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Jason Horowitz's provocative large-scale photographs have stopped people in their tracks in DC, Miami, New York, and Portland. Working at the intersection of landscape and anonymous portraiture, Horowitz finds new ground to explore about the human body, not an easy task in our image-saturated society. Horowitz plays with the tension between attraction and repulsion. By exploding scale, he reveals not only the fascinating visual terrain of the body but also challenges our own hidden or unspoken biases about beauty, ugliness, body-image, race, sexuality, aging, and the thresholds of exhibitionism.
Corpus is an on-going exploration of people and the human form. The photographs are 42"x63" archival pigment prints that reveal a hyper-realistic amount of detail about the subject. The images explore the relationship between photographic representation and painterly abstraction and the formal elements in tension with the emotional content of the subject matter. Shot with the same "glamour" lighting set-up used for fashion images, these photographs subvert that process to look at what is real rather than ideal. Larger than life, these images become a vehicle for looking deeply at one's self and others.
This is the debut solo exhibition of Jason Horowitz's work at Curator's Office. Horowitz has exhibited his work at Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC; Peer Gallery, New York, NY; Blue Sky Art Center, Portland, OR; Scope Hamptons, East Hampton, NY; Aqua Art Miami Fair, Miami Beach, FL; The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; PASS Gallery, Washington, DC; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; the Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Georgetown University Art Gallery, Washington, DC; School 33, Baltimore, MD; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; and the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. His work is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He is a recent winner of the 2007 Aaron Siskind Award in Photography.
curator's office booth 7-2094 NEXT Chicago Art Fair
intimacy jason horowitz, andrew laumann, nick & sheila pye
photography and film
curator's office presents a focused exhibition on the theme of intimacy in its booth at the NEXT Chicago Art Fair at Merchandise Mart. The exhibition addresses close familiarity not only between individuals but also within the self. Vulnerability, connection, loneliness, empathy, togetherness, fragility, and dreaminess characterize the complex and rich state of intimacy. The exhibition features photographs and films by the well-known Canadian artist team, Nick & Sheila Pye, large-scale photographs of body parts by noted American photographer Jason Horowitz and introduces the photographic work of exciting young newcomer Andrew Laumann.
intimacy features the American premiere of Nicholas & Sheila Pye's film, "Loudly, Death Unties," the third in their trilogy of films exploring the trajectory of an intense relationship gone wrong.
Curator's Office will also present Charles Cohan's Airport Terminal Diagram Series along its flanking booth walls. Business card drawings by Andy Moon Wilson will also be available.
Curator's Office is pleased to announce the selection of Jason Hughes's political work, Police & Thieves, into the curated exhibition Partisan, also taking place at the Merchandise Mart on the 12th Floor during Art Chicago and the NEXT Chicago Art Fair.
SHOW HOURS Thursday, April 24 - Preview Opening Friday, April 25 - 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Saturday, April 26 - 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Sunday, April 27 - 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Monday, April 28 - 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
LOCATION Next art fair will take place on the 7th floor of the Merchandise Mart, located at 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
