space + totems

Scott Kiernan, in Beauty's Burden, curated by David Gibson and Jennifer Junkermeier, at Ernest Rubenstein Gallery (of The Educational Alliance). Closes October 31st.


John McCracken, at David Zwirner.


All purply.


Matthew Day Jackson, at Peter Blum - after Charles Ray after McCracken, I guess. The cosmonaut's space suit is made from US Army blankets... Dario Robleto?


Jason Middlebrook being installed at Sara Meltzer.

Steven Parrino, Niki de Saint Phalle

Steven Parrino, Skeletal Implosion #3, 2001, in A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument, at Zwirner.

Fontana.


Niki de Saint Phalle, My Shoes ou Memory of a Shoot (fragment de Dracula I), 1961, in A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument, at Zwirner.

A crucifix, a meatgrinder, and a pair of shoes, splattered in red and purple.

Related: Roberta Smith reviews A Point in Space.. for the NYTimes.

ALFRED JENSEN FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Alfred Jensen, My Oneness, A Universe of Colours, 1957

This Alfred Jensen is one of four included in A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument , at Zwirner, along with the Overstreet posted below. It's signed and dated on the front, Alfred Jensen July 20 1957... fifty years ago today. If I was in NYC today I would go to Zwirner and stare hard at the center of that painting... try to jump through space and time... until I self-integrate.

"So we'll live and pray and sing and tell old tales and laugh of gilded butterflies" - W.S.

"No repeated group of words would fit their rythm and no scale could give them meaning" - Nathaniel West"

Joe Overstreet

Joe Overstreet, The Basketweavers, 2003

This Joe Overstreet is in the show at Zwirner... A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument. So much good stuff in that show. TOO MUCH. I want to go back.

I'm posting this Overstreet now because it is one of my favorites in the show, but also because I just posted the 2007 Harriet Korman below, and they were two of many favorites from High Times, Hard Times, both represented by pieces from 1971. So, here they both are now with excellent work more than thirty years later. Wow.

Joe Overstreet has a website, with lots of images of work from 2003, and an almost fifty year listing of exhibitions; from 1955-2003. How old is he? Maybe he was already almost forty when he made the 1971 piece?


Joe Overstreet, detail of The Basketweavers, 2003 - it's big, painted on a metal screen.



Joe Overstreet, Purple Flight, 1971 - this is the piece he had in High Times, Hard Times.