"Decameron" Exhibition
The New York Studio School
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The New York Studio School presents an exhibition in September that acknowledges Gallery Director David Cohen as he stands down after nine years in this position. He organized his first show at the School as a guest curator in 2000 (Leonard McComb) and was on staff from June 2001. Cohen, who is also editor of artcritical magazine, says he intends to devote himself fully to writing and publishing.
The exhibition’s title, Decameron, alludes to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterwork of the same title, and for two reasons. The show celebrates a full decade of curatorial engagement, and thus, as it were, has ten chapters. And as in Boccaccio’s tales, there is a striking range of genre, mood, and character among the artists it brings together.
Cohen was responsible for fifty exhibitions during his time at the School. These were shows he initiated, traveling shows he modified as receiving curator, and shows that others organized with his support. Guest curators with whom Cohen worked included Charles Cajori, Vincent Katz, Nathan Kernan, Olivia Mattis, Mor Pipman, Jennifer Sachs Samet, Susan Shatter, Louise Tolliver Deutschman, and, on two occasions, Karen Wilkin. The roster of exhibitions attests to a breadth of taste and a consistency of seriousness Cohen shares his employers.
Works on display in Decameron will include specific examples that had been in the original exhibitions, including one of Frank Galuszka’s extraordinary paintings incorporating mica, borrowed from California; more recent examples showing the exhibitors’ subsequent development, such as Tampa, Florida-based Mernet Larsen’s paintings exploiting extreme perspective; and projections of installation shots of large-scale sculptures and wall drawings, such as Vincent Barré’s 2002 exhibition or Pat Steir’s wall drawing, “Self-Portrait: Reprise” (2009). Some artists, meanwhile, will be represented by videos that had been specially commissioned by the School for their respective exhibitions. These include film profiles by Bill Maynes of the artists Norman Turner, Nick Miller, Ariane Lopez-Huici and Jilaine Jones, and interviews with artists Vita Petersen and Françoise Gilot conducted by Cohen.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2010 to October 10, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-09 from 18:30 to 20:30
Artist(s)
Frank Auerbach, Joa Baldinger, Malado Baldwin, Vincent Barré, Frances Barth, Rosemarie Beck, Anne Becker, Rudy Burckhardt, Jack Bush, Susanna Coffey, Peter de Francia, Martha Diamond, Lois Dodd, Rackstraw Downes, Chris Duncan, Louis Finkelstein, Sandra Fisher, Andrew Forge, Laurie Frick, Frank Galuszka, Françoise Gilot, Barbara Grossman, Steven Harvey, Charles Hewlings, Geoffrey Heyworth, Eric Holzman, Merlin James, Jilaine Jones, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William King, Alain Kirili, R.B. Kitaj, Mernet Larsen, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Lino Mannocci, Mercedes Matter, Leonard McComb, Melissa Meyer, Ruth Miller, Nick Miller, John Newman, George Nick, Graham Nickson, Thomas Nozkowski, Philip Pearlstein, Vita Petersen, Carl Plansky, Karlis Rekevics, Milton Resnick, Joyce Robins, Dorothea Rockburne, Harry Roseman, Sean Scully, Susan Shatter, Ron Shuebrook, Rebecca Smith, Clintel Steed, Pat Steir, Sally Tittmann, Lilian Tomasko, William Tucker, Norman Turner