Piper / Baudelaire / Meckseper / Gonzales

Elizabeth Dee is pleased to present the four person exhibition of works by: Adrian Piper, Eric Baudelaire, Josephine Meckseper and Wayne Gonzales which will open on Saturday, November 4th at the gallery and run through December 23rd, 2006. An opening reception for the artists will be held Saturday, November 4th from 6:00-8:00 PM.

This exhibition centers around two generations of artists, both American and European, who will present their work in autonomous ways inside the space. After the events of 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq War in particular, we have increasingly seen a prevalence of socio-political imagery used as material in the appropriation of form, manipulation, social documentation and translation.

To subjugate, personalize, infuse meaning, or question social protocols both points to forthcoming practices and also directly references artists from previous generations who have always played a role in subversive action and philosophical reflection.

The gallery is honored to present four works from Adrian Piper’s most recent series which are being exhibited for the first time. Since the late 1960’s, Adrian Piper’s history has always utilized representation, political dissonances and discourses relating to ethnicity and gender in appropriated images and writings from a wide variety of recent and historical sources. The ongoing series entitled Everything, begun in 2003, employs a single text,

Everything will be taken away

as a constant that is permuted in a variety of media and contexts. The four works exhibited are from Everything #2, which uses photography, photocopying, offset printing and erasure on personal photographs taken by the artist. The permanent repetition of the phrase is crucial to the series. In every work/context the sentence develops a different aspect of its possible meanings and thus enlarges the scope of the viewers’ individual reflection upon it. These works are poetic and philosophical in their relationship to Piper’s writings and philosophical work. ...

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Adrian Piper
Eric Baudelaire
Josephine Meckseper
Wayne Gonzales