Neil Goldberg “VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS”

Cristin Tierney Gallery

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From the Artist:

It’s confusing to try to promote your art while the world is going up in flames. Can you imagine some mid-career artist in Berlin in 1933 being like, “Isn’t it crazy about the Reichstag? Anyway, hey, I’ve got a new solo show coming up.”? But, hey: I’ve got a solo show coming up, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, from October 25 - December 15.

I’m calling the show VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, so that at least every act of promoting it will contain a call to modest political action. Also, I think my art is kind of like the midterm elections: it focuses on things that go overlooked or are considered unworthy of attention; it is sometimes overly local.

I realize that this title might preach to the choir. But I don’t think everyone in the choir voted in the midterm elections. I know I missed a few New York State primaries.

The show will focus on a collection of index cards on which I’ve been writing passing thoughts and reflections for the past two decades. Although rooted in my particular subjectivity and circumstances, the cards are meant to offer an opportunity for identification and disidentification, and to provide a starting point for tangents, detours, or entirely different cognitive routes. The one I wrote today was: “How my therapist told me not to trust my gut.”

On most days that the gallery is open, I’m going to use the cards as prompts for conversations with anyone who stops by, plus scheduled guest artists, writers, performers, activists, and community groups from across the city. You can come and go and participate or not participate as you like. It might sound trite, but talking to each other in person feels especially important right now. Even if it’s the choir talking among itself.

I realize that voting in the midterm elections is a bare-minimum step. If you want to do something more, email info@cristintierney.com and we can give you suggestions. And please come to VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to present VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Opening October 25th with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, the exhibition features performances and visual work from Neil Goldberg’s ongoing series Inhibited Bites, and other projects. Marathon performances, held most days during the run of the show, draw on a collection of more than 1,000 of the artist’s index cards as prompts in rolling conversations with gallery visitors and special guests. Goldberg’s interests in embodiment, the mundane, and the overlooked, explored in two-plus decades of widely recognized video and photographic work, are fully realized in this project as he shares alternately witty, bleak, and trenchant observations in dialogue with exhibition guests. VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS continues through December 15th.