4- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery Presents May I Have A Revolution Please, New Multi-Media Works by Dan Tague

May I Have A Revolution Please, New Multi-Media Works by Dan Tague
April 25 - June 1, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May I Have a Revolution Please
A Multi-Media Exhibition Featuring New Work by DAN TAGUE
April 25 - June 1, 2011

April 26, 2011 (New Orleans, LA) Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to present May I Have a Revolution Please featuring new drawings, prints, sculpture and photography by Dan Tague. The exhibition in on view from April 25th through June 1, 2011 with a reception to meet the artist on Saturday May 7th from 6-9pm.

New Orleans-born Tague has received worldwide recognition for his provocative works, which combine technical mastery with a confrontational, sardonic twist on familiar symbols of American political culture.

In his current exhibition, May I Have a Revolution Please, Tague draws on American iconography (The Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, the (almighty) Dollar Bill) and flips it, confronting viewers to re-examine the sometimes subliminal, sometimes overt, messages that permeate our culture. Tague's work is multi-faceted. He is well known for his folded dollar bill works that are a hybrid of sculpture, photography and political statements. Tague often addresses the issues of our day by rendering visual equivalents using the most powerful means necessary. Installations, photography and artistic activism are his means of confronting and responding to the concerns of today's world.

Of the current exhibition Tague states:

"In the midst of global uprisings against tyranny, we squabble over modest proposals. Are nuclear warheads more important than education? Should the rich be allowed to buy the country? Is health care a luxury? Ask congress; ask your governor and the answer is YES.

On matters of civil rights, congress should never be left to decide. The people who make the decisions to ban one's right to govern their own sexuality, take away a woman's right to choose, to give themselves tax breaks and bailouts, start wars for capital gain on the sweat and blood of the citizens whose interests they are sworn to uphold; these same people preferred to die than to abolish slavery.

"If by mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."- Abraham Lincoln

'We Are Not Created Equal' is the message that congress is forcing us to accept. So, my fellow parasites, do we accept or do we revolt?" -Dan Tague

Dan Tague has an MFA in Studio Arts from The University of New Orleans, and is a multi-media artist, curator, and activist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of several awards and residencies including grants from The Joan Mitchell Foundation and Pollock Krasner Foundation, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the La Napoule Art Foundation in France.

Tague's work has been exhibited across the US including Exit Art, DUMBO Arts Center, Frederieke Taylor, LMCC, Bronx River Arts Center and Cuchifritos in New York; The Soap Factory in Minneapolis; Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University; Florida Atlantic University and Gallery Camino Real in Florida and the Southeastern Biennial at SECCA in North Carolina.

His work is currently on exhibit at Ballroom Marfa (MARFA, TX) and was recently exhibited at VOLTA in New York and Pulse in Miami. Dan Tague is one of the first artists chosen for Prospect.2 Biennial that opens in October 2011 where he will present a major installation addressing corporate America and the political feuds that tie up our government.

Tague's work is in numerous public and private collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, curator Dan Cameron and The Louisiana State Museum.

Dan Tague lives and works in New Orleans, LA

For more information and images, please contact Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (504.522.5471 or info@jonathanferraragallery.com).

To preview selected works from May I Have a Revolution Please, please .

Pictured:

Dan Tague

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted (2011)
acrylic and pen on original 1967 Communist poster
34 x 27 in.