“F__K__U” Exhibition
Kravets/Wehby Gallery
[Image: Sandy Kim "Untitled" (2013) Optical digital print 30x40 in.]
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The Kravets/Wehby Gallery presents F__K__U, a group exhibition curated by Victoria Duffee, featuring the work of Alex Bienstock, Devin Kenny, Sandy Kim, Abby Lloyd, Moris (Israel Meza Moreno), Justin Samson and Lactic (Randi Shandroski).
The exhibition’s title echoes Tupac’s last words recalled by a police officer in a recent Buzzfeed article. Each artist’s work in this exhibition focuses on abstracted text and master signifiers assigned to popular icons, historical incidents and trends. When Tupac said “Fuck You” it took on a more ethereal and true sound… Was Tupac just saying “Fuck You” to the cop asking “Who shot you?” or was it a bigger statement? Should we ask his hologram?
Focusing on our changing relationship to text due to the information mega-stream of the internet, the participating artists create work that relates to how language is used, manipulated, satirized and omitted. Photo based non-narratives like scrolling through Facebook, sarcastic layering of corporate imagery and slogans, complicated authorship, and familiar statements mixed with ubiquitous symbols of identity such as Infinite tie dye, spikes, and rubber.
While using visual puns, cryptic language, made up correspondence, and every day phrases each artist has a distinct approach and sensibility while sharing a similar kind of attitude.
Alex Bienstock lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited in several group shows in New York City. He has also exhibited in Berlin, and Los Angeles with upcoming solo exhibitions in Mexico City and London.
Devin Kenny has recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program after receiving his MFA from UCLA. He currently has work on view at the Hammer Museum’s exhibition, Made in LA. He has performed at Bruce High Quality Foundation, Santos Party House, Silent Barn, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Centre Georges Pompidou, and the MOMA.
Sandy Kim lives and works between New York City and LA. Her documentation of the band Girls gained her notoriety. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally along side Andy Warhol and Nan Golden. Several solo exhibitions include the Last Gallery in Tokyo as well as the Evergold Gallery in San Francisco. Her work often appears in Vice Magazine, Purple Magazine, Dazed and Confused and Pitchfork. She recently received a two page spread about her work and career in the June 2014 Artforum.
Abby Lloyd lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has participated in several group exhibitions New York City, Italy, Germany and the UK. She has also shown at the Musee de Contepmporain, Montreal, the Portland Museum of Art, OR, and the Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Her first solo exhibition at New York City Gallery, NY received press from Paper Magazine and Art Fag City.
Moris (Israel Meza Moreno) lives and works in Mexico City. He has had solo exhibitions in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, New York City, the Geffen Contemporary; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has also participated in group shows at the 2012 Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil, the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, the Nordic Watercolor Museum, Stockholm Sweden, the Bass Museum in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
Justin Samson lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been widely exhibited throughout New York City. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York and at Hiromi Yoshi in Tokyo, Japan. His work has also been exhibited in Paris, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Miami, London. He has received reviews from the New York Times, Flash Art, Zing Magazine, and New York Magazine.
Randi Shandroski lives and works in Boston. She started her own fashion LineLactic after graduating from Yale. Her work has been exhibited in Boston, MA and New York City. She has received reviews from the Boston Globe and Hyperallergic. She is a regular contributor to Creeps Annual, an internationally distributed publication. She has also performed at MOMA PS1.
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Schedule
from July 10, 2014 to August 01, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-07-10 from 18:00 to 20:00