NYAB Event - "Look Again" Exhibition

"Look Again" Exhibition

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At Marlborough Chelsea
Media: Painting, Photography, Installation

Focusing on re-appropriation, subversion and trompe l’oeil devices employed by a diverse group of international artists, the exhibition was conceived not as an exhaustive survey but rather an editorial selection that juxtaposes established artists with emerging voices.
The artists included in the exhibition challenge the viewer to re-consider an artwork based on its immediate context.
Through the reconstruction of images referenced from art history or trompe l’oeil devices employed to fool the
eye, the artists included in Look Again aim to disrupt the viewer’s expectations and to question the significance of art
withdrawn from its original framework. While some artists reinterpret familiar subject matter or reinvent discarded
materials, others anachronistically adopt the style of a modern master to purposely mislead the viewer.
The exhibition will feature paintings, sculptures, photographs and installation blanketing both floors of the
Chelsea gallery. Highlights of the exhibition include a site specific installation by conceptual artist Tony Feher, a
seminal sculpture by Chakaia Booker, new work by Manolo Valdés, and a rare diptych by re-contextualization pio-
neer Richard Pettibone. Deborah Kass will exhibit her series based on Andy Warhol’s Most Wanted posters for the
first time in New York. The series, done in 1998-99 depicts art world figures like Whitney Museum curator Donna
DeSalvo and MoCA’s chief curator Paul Schimmel.