“Final Harvestings” Exhibition
Cathouse FUNeral
This event has ended.
“It is with mixed feelings that we announce the final show in our Cathouse FUNeral space. Our ex-funeral home building has been sold. We will continue Cathouse’s innovative programming at Cathouse Proper in Carroll Gardens at 524 Project Space and at off-site locations and fairs.
Over the three-year life of Cathouse FUNeral the space itself has taken on sculptural form, both physical and social. This final show, ‘Final Harvestings’, will install several of the over 25 “harvestings” that have been cut from the gallery walls, then framed or isolated as single art objects.
The first harvesting – a wood 2x4 with vertical, pink plaster stripe – was produced during deinstallation between two shows in 2014: ‘Shrink It, Pink It’ (curated by Irena Jurek and Diana Buckley) and ‘For the Love of Agnes and Barney’. Subsequent harvestings have been extracted from ‘The Hunt’, Brad Benischek’s solo-show, ‘Ghost City’, and Anne Deleporte’s recent ‘My Favorite Horror Show: the news’.
These harvesting and other works from past exhibitions will be installed – those of Timothy Simonds, Nicola Ginzel, Gregor Neuerer, etc. – along with strategic cuts in the walls that will reveal fragments of past exhibitions that are beneath and remain intact in the FUNeral’s unusual layered space.
Cathouse FUNeral has never been returned to its original white-wall configuration. Rather, the twenty exhibitions in this three-year project have been sequentially built one upon the other, adding new walls when necessary to reconfigure the space or preserve murals, frescos, and exhibition design.
Our feelings are “mixed” at this closing because, although saddened at the loss, we are pleased that the sequential nature of the twenty produced exhibitions will conclude with artistic clarity and purpose, thus completing this three-year project and giving it final form. Also, as Dr. Seuss tells us, “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” With this in mind, I would like to thank all the artists, patrons, guests and participants that have made Cathouse FUNeral the immensely satisfying and innovative project that it is and has been. Now, onward with Cathouse Proper, and…”
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from September 17, 2016 to October 30, 2016