“Personal Space” Exhibition
Essex Flowers
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Essex Flowers presents “Personal Space” an exhibition of paintings and photographs by six artists.
Ellen Berkenblit
Josh Brand
Ann Craven
Keith Haring
Kyle Knodell
Lydia Anne McCarthy
In 1978 Diego Cortez, Steve Mass, and Anya Phillips opened The Mudd Club in a building owned by artist Ross Bleckner at 77 White St. in TriBeCa, Manhattan. The club closed 5 years later in 1983 after establishing itself as a cornerstone of the city’s downtown arts and night life communities.
The artist Keith Haring curated a gallery on the fourth floor of the venue, while live performances from artists and musicians were accompanied by a host of other cultural events. At some point, and as an apparent gift to the establishment, Haring painted one of his signature “Baby” icons directly onto the wall of a basement boiler room of the club.
Some 20 years later in 2005 Bleckner sold the building at White St. Artist Joshua Abelow who now kept a studio in the basement and his artist friend Van Hanos salvaged the Haring mural before it was demolished in new construction. Bleckner gifted it to the two artists to share in joint collection. The excised mural includes the original Haring painting along with additional graffiti and the defacement of inattention and time. The work is not for sale.
We’re excited to exhibit this work along with recent paintings and photographs by Berkenblit, Brand, Craven, Knodell and McCarthy. Each artist addresses a highly specific notion of “personal space”, whether through literal imagery depicting intimate spaces or with practices and exhibition strategies that seek to dramatize notions of intimacy and relationships.
“Personal Space” will maintain gallery hours between 12:00 - 6PM every Saturday, Sunday and by appointment.
[Image: Kyle Knodell: Lauren’s Painting, Amanda’s Kitchen, 2012]
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Schedule
from January 12, 2014 to February 16, 2014
Reception For The Artist on 2014-01-12 from 17:00 to 20:00