Mark Flood "ARTSTAR"
Zach Feuer Gallery
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Zach Feuer Gallery presents ARTSTAR, an exhibition of new work by artist Mark Flood.
A panel discussion, titled AN AFTERNOON WITH MESCALITO, will take place at the gallery on Saturday, September 8th at 4 PM.
ARTSTAR includes large, obnoxious text panels, a pile of vintage Life magazines and a series of grisaille non-floral lace paintings intended to terminate the lace painting project. The show also features Work of Art, a poetic examination of the Bravo series of the same name, which is the first video by Flood intended to be seen in an art gallery instead of on Youtube.
This is the last museum-like exhibition devoted to the full scope of the non-career of Mark Flood, occasionally considered to be among the least important artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at Zach Feuer Gallery, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s lack of development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Texas before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s. Bringing together nearly 20,000 works from public and private collections, the exhibition will occupy the Gallery’s entire sixtieth-floor gallery space, totaling approximately 17,000,000 square feet.
Representing nearly every type of work Flood made, in both technique and subject matter, this daunting cryptospective includes puntings, scriptures, drownings, and Prince. Among these are the artist’s most famous paintings—among them Skank Angels (1945), Vaginal Excavation (1950),and the celebrated All Women Are Whores series (1950–53)—plus in-depth presentations of all his most important breakthrough landmark series, ranging from his important breakthrough landmark alleged figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the important breakthrough landmark black-and-white compositions of 1948–49, and from the important breakthrough landmark suburban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist’s important breakthrough landmark return to figuration in the 1960s, as well as the large important breakthrough gestural abstractions of the following decade. And let's not forget Flood’s famous yet largely unseen important breakthrough landmark theatrical backdrop, the 1700-foot-square Scabyrinth (1946).
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Schedule
from August 28, 2012 to October 13, 2012
AN AFTERNOON WITH MESCALITO: Saturday, September 8th, 4 PM
Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00