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BILLY CHILDISH, Elgar Sat on
Stairs, 2011
oil and acrylic on linen
48.03 x 59.84
inches
Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New
York
ON
SHUFFLE
6 July -
19 Aug 2011
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
presents On Shuffle, a group exhibition featuring
works by Billy Childish, Kim Gordon, Kalup Linzy, Ryan
McNamara, Tony Oursler, Dave Muller, Dario Robleto
and Stephen Vitiello on view at 540 West 26th
Street, 6 July - 19 August, 2011 . On Shuffle
presents works by these interdisciplinary underground cult
figures in various mediums, which use and reference music,
including sound, performance, painting, mixed media and
video.
Billy Childish’s portraits of
composers Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff and Jean Sibelius
reflect the crossover between art and music in Childish’s
work. In addition to the creation of over 2000 paintings,
Childish has a prolific output of music and poetry, with over
40 collections of poetry and 100 full-length LP’s. Childish
will present his first solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin
Gallery in November 2011.
Video
and performance artist Kalup Linzy is best
known for his series of video art pieces satirizing the tone
and narrative approach of television soap opera. In addition
to serving as writer, director, and editor, Linzy performs
many of the characters himself, oftentimes donning drag. In
“Conversations wit de Churen VII: L’ll Myron’s
Trade,” we follow Katonya and others through a dramatic
soap opera narrative.
Tony Oursler, known for his innovative
combination of video, sculpture, and performance, explores the
relationship between the individual and mass media systems
with humor, irony, and imagination. Among the artists Oursler has
collaborated with is Sonic Youth member, Kim
Gordon. In this exhibition, Gordon's
"Sickness" and "Hair Police" from the series
titled "The Noise Paintings," take their names from the
subculture of noise bands, treating the blank canvas like a
t-shirt.
Ryan McNamara mines pop music history
to locate soundtracks for his investigations into the
peculiarities of bodily and social experience. “Trains, Boats
and Planes,” projected on the floor, shows the artist lying
amid a field of dime-store leaves as the Burt Bacharach song
of the same title plays. The artist has said that this work is
the realization of an image that popped into his head every
time he heard these no-win, futile lyrics.
Artist, musician and DJ Dave Muller
creates experimental works, reinterpreting objects that mingle
personal and musical. “Muller Family Car Listening Stack
(From Frances Down to Dave)” reflects the artist’s
attempt to transform the ephemeral into the concrete. The work
captures the moment in which this stack of CDs, representing
the family’s listening spectrum, were all together in the
Muller Family Car.
Dario Robleto often uses records,
tapes, and recordings as his medium to address themes of
popular music and culture, science and humanity. Robleto’s
“I Wish The Ocean Sounded More Like Dusty
Springfield” and “I Wish The Ocean Sounded More Like
Muddy Waters,” are composed of apple blossom seashells
collected by the artist. Robleto created pairs of seashells
and serenaded them with songs by Dusty Springfield or Muddy
Waters and then returned each seashell’s partner to the shore
in hopes of altering the sound of the ocean. Robleto then used
the remaining seashells to spell out the words “Dusty” and
“Muddy.”
Former punk guitarist and sound artist, Stephen
Vitiello, who has also collaborated with Oursler,
manipulates and transforms everyday atmospheric sounds in his
creation of sound installations. Vitiello’s “Light
Readings” is an audio-video work in which the artist used
a “photocell” device that translates light frequencies into
sound through a video synthesizer.
LEHMANN MAUPIN
540 West
26th Street
New
York, NY 10001
T: +1
212.255.2923
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