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2.9.2011 |
News and Exhibitions
Saturnalia: New Work by Gallery Artists
Exhibition Extended to March 5
Info
Next Exhibition
Image/Fame/Memory
Curtis Knapp, Gerard Malanga, Billy Name, Kate Simon
& Shepard Fairey in collaboration with Billy Name and Kate Simon
March 11- April 16
Image/Fame/Memory provides a new context for the work of four important photographers associated with images of fame and celebrity in art, music, and popular culture. Foregrounding the role of the photographic image in creating fame and perpetuating cultural memory, this exhibition presents photographs by Billy Name, Kate Simon, Curtis Knapp, and Gerard Malanga, and recent screen print images by Shepard Fairey created in collaboration with Billy Name and Kate Simon.
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| Curtis Knapp, Madonna (1983), first magazine cover. |
Kate Simon, Michael Jackson (1979). |
Billy Name, Andy Warhol in the Silver Factory (1963). |
Artists News
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Melissa Ichiuji: In the exhibition, Tous cannibales (We’re All Cannibals), curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger. Opening at La Maison Rouge, Paris (website) (February
12 - May 15), and continuing in Berlin at Me Collectors Room, (website), May 28- September 18. Artist's info. |
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James Marshall (Dalek): In exhibition North Carolina New Contemporary at SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Oct. 8, 2010 - March 12, 2011. Museum info. Time-lapse video of on-site mural painting. Artist's info. |
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Sebastian Martorana will have a work in marble exhibited and acquired by the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, for the Renwick's 40th Anniversary Exhibition, 40 Under 40, in 2012. Artist's info. |
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Alexa Meade: Photographs selected and published in
Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being, eds R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze (Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2011).
Recent press: "Breaking the Picture Plane," Review by Lennox Campello in American Contemporary Art, pp. 38-39 (web edition).
Alexa Meade will be presenting at The EG Conference, Monterey, CA, April 7-9 (website). Artist's info. |
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Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) juried the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) sixth Experimental Media Series, and introduced the winners at the first presentation of the artists' works at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (WPA info). Miller will also introduce a presentation at the Hirshhorn Museum, Match 31, 8PM. Irvine Contemporary will show the film El Toro by WPA Experimental Media Series award winner, Paul Moon, in April. In addition to his many performances and new compositions, Miller has also released a DJ mixing app for the iPhone and iPad (info). Artist's info. |
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Phil Nesmith: Review of the exhibition, Flow, at Irvine Contemporary, in Art in America (1/2011). Artist's info. |
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Kerry Skarbakka: In the exhibition, Life Imitates Artifice, curated by Mark Slankardan, Cleveland State University, Main Gallery, Jan 21 - March 12, (website). Artist's info. |
Gallery information
For further information, contact Lauren Gentile, Director,
202-332-8767 or lauren@irvinecontemporary.com.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
Martin Irvine, Proprietor & Director
Lauren Gentile, Director
1412 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767
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