Dana Levy, Kai Schiemenz and Iris Fluegel will be participating in the nine-gallery exhibition, inspired by the Richard Price’s novel “Lush Life”.
LUSH LIFE
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
Chapter 3. First Bird (A Few Butterflies)
June 25 – July 31, 2010
Nicholas Di Genova, Christoph Draeger, Jeffrey Gibson,
Karen Heagle, Ezra Johnson, Wes Lang, Dana Levy,
Gina Magid, Jon Rappleye and Xaviera Simmons
Lehmann Maupin 201 Chrystie Street
Chapter Four: Let It Die
July 8 – August 13
Nina Lola Bachhuber
, Robert Beck
, Jessica Dickinson,
Tommy Hartung,
Rashid Johnson,
Jose Lerma,
Dani Leventhal
, Amy Longenecker-Brown
, Robert Melee
Jackie Saccoccio
, Kai Schiemenz / Iris Fluegel,
Claudia Weber
Matthew Weinstein
Reception: Thursday, July 8: 6-9pm
LUSH LIFE is an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. LUSH LIFE adopts Richard Price’s 2008 novel to title and organize the exhibition. The novel is set in the contemporary LES and through a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and Price’s novel provides a potent vehicle for the consideration of community as voices compete for, ignore, and occasionally share the same physical and conceptual space.
The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. The curators selected one artist from each gallery to participate in the exhibition and solicited from each of them one additional artist recommendation of an artist not from one of the nine participating galleries (nine total recommendations). The curators then supplemented this base group of eighteen artists to complete nine exhibitions, ranging in size from three to twelve artists. LUSH LIFE will be the present for what will become a living ghost to the future form into which the LES will inevitably morph.
The exhibition schedule varies slightly at each gallery with the earliest installation being June 17 and the latest closing being August 13. There will be a collective opening of all participating galleries on Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 pm.
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is a gallery dedicated to superior conceptual work. IE is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A Orchard Street, just north of Canal. NOTE: The gallery will be closed on July 3-4. July hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm – 6pm, and by appointment. For the month of August, we are by appointment only.
invisible-exports.com/exhibitions/19_lushlife/lushlife.html
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