Drew Conrad "Ain’t Dead Yet"

Fitzroy Gallery

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Fitzroy Gallery announces Ain’t Dead Yet, the first New York solo exhibition of artist Drew Conrad.

Drew Conrad’s sculptural ruins of familiar domestic interior and exterior spaces propose a physical and mental space. Each architectural element is constructed and deconstructed with an idea of a certain moment yet without a final and fully realized plan; each decision informs the next. New and found materials such as laths, shingles, damask wallpaper, lights, and household oddities are distressed by hand with rust, debris, stain and sediment.

A tangible manifestation of the phrase “Je me souviens”, the sculptures, like nostalgia, are fragmented. This particular psychological archeology, with its decay yet lack of narrative, hints simultaneously at a Faulkner-esque Gothic South and decrepit Matta-Clark middle-class corners. A Vegas-era Elvis, a scratchy, haunting audio track, snapshots by Conrad, a taxidermy gazelle, and Crosby Stills and Nash albums form a bricolage of personal history and collective memory.

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Schedule

from November 17, 2012 to January 20, 2013

Opening Reception on 2012-11-17 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Drew Conrad

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