"Lush Life: Chapter Four: Let It Die" Exhibition
Lehmann Maupin (201 Chrystie Street)
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"Lush Life" is an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. "Lush Life" adopts Richard Price's 2008 novel to title and organize the exhibition. The novel is set in the contemporary LES and through a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and the premise of community is reflected in the cooperative nature of the galleries' and artists' participation in the exhibition which uses Price's novel to critically consider concepts of neighborhood and change. Each gallery will be a sub-exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book.
Lehmann Maupin will represent Chapter Four: Let it Die and will exhibit the work of Jackie Saccoccio, Jessica Dickinson, Matthew Weinstein, Dani Leventhal, Rashid Johnson, Claudia Weber, Jose Lerma, Kai Schiemenz, Iris Fluegel, Robert Beck, Robert Melee, Tommy Hartung, Nina Lola Bachhuber, Cynthia Lin and Amy Longenecker-Brown. Chapter four in Price's novel addresses the attempt to ignore and let a story die, to allow for a neighborhood's history to die, and to actively bury the past and the difficulty of finding a fairer answer/resolution to a complex situation.
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Schedule
from July 08, 2010 to August 13, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-07-08 from 18:00 to 21:00