David Benjamin Sherry, How Could I Have Ever Lost You, 2010, Traditional color print with frame, 50 x 65 inches
IT AIN’T FAIR 2010
Opening reception Thursday, December 2, 8pm
Exhibition design by Rafael de Cárdenas
81 NE 40th Street
Miami Design District, FL 33137
It Ain’t Fair is the third edition of OHWOW’s annual group exhibition, presented to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Offering an alternative to the overwhelming mazes of art fair booths, It Ain’t Fair will highlight a cogent selection of leading-edge art. From painting to sculpture, the exhibition delivers a comprehensive survey of emerging and established artists’ most recent work. It Ain’t Fair is exactly that – not a fair, but a multimedia production, providing a critical scope of contemporary art innovation.
Participating artists include Daniel Arsham, Scott Campbell, Julia Chiang, Dan Colen, André Ethier, FriendsWithYou, Phil Frost, Michael Genovese, Luis Gispert, Gustavo Godoy, Tomoo Gokita, Diana Al-Hadid, Trenton Doyle-Hancock, Julia Ziegler-Haynes, Michael St. John, KAWS, Robert Lazzarini, Nate Lowman, Brendan Lynch, Ari Marcopoulos, Barry McGee, Neck Face, José Parlá, Rey Parlá, Kembra Pfahler, Aurel Schmidt, David Benjamin Sherry, Lucien Marc Smith and Nick Van Woert.
December 2-5, 2010
Special thanks to Cymbal Development
Ryan Sullivan, October 25, 2009 – April 1, 2010 (detail), 2010, Oil and enamel on canvas, 59 by 45 inches
SKINS
Opening reception Thursday, December 2, 8pm
Curated by Alex Gartenfeld
81 NE 40th Street
Miami Design District, FL 33137
Skins is an exhibition of artists whose approach to media looks beneath and beyond the surface. The title of this group show refers to the culture of tattoos, presumed by anthropologists as “messages fraught with spiritual and moral significance… not only to imprint a drawing onto the flesh but also to stamp onto the mind all the traditions and philosophy of the group,” as methods of establishing communities, ascending or descending social ranks. Today, when tattoos are ubiquitous and body modification cannot be conflated with progress, we look nostalgically to a time when simple marks or punctures communicated participation in a community. The artists here share object-oriented practices; they are painters, photographers, and sculptors, working in and against the histories of their inscribed mediums. They wonder if it is possible to use permanent marks that create or hold memory. They also wonder the opposite: if boundaries of taste and conventions or presentation still persist in the shadow of an art fair.
Featured artists include Hwan Jahng, Sam Moyer, Reto Pulfer, Mariah Robertson, David Scanavino, Ryan Sullivan, Josh Tonsfeldt, Ned Vena and Andrea Longacre-White.
