Nadia Lee Cohen and Jordan Wolfson
Polly Borland and Michael Slenske
Julia Ehrlich and Paulo Sutch
Greg Ito
Pat Martin
Amber Halford and Jordan Richman
Nadia Lee Cohen
Summer Bowie
Dylan Brosnan and Avery Wheless
John Caldwell and Nadya Tolokonnikova
Oliver Misraje
Oliver Kupper
Nadia Lee Cohen and Alia Penner
Jordan Wolfson
Ben Lee Ritchie Handler
Aaron Rose
Esben Weile Kjaer
Odilia Romero and Gladys Tzul Tzul
Bill Powers and Mickey Lee
Amber Halford and Laura Whitcomb
Arty Nelson
Melahn Frierson and Nadia Lee Cohen
Jon Goss
Ben Lee Ritchie Handler and Karen Galloway
Charlotte Rutherford and a friend
Mimi Wade and Jordan Wolfson
Josh Landau
Last night at Neuehouse Hollywood, Autre hosted an intimate gathering of friends and contributors for a dinner to celebrate the Losing My Religion issue (#15 Fall/Winter 2022). photographs by Oliver Kupper
The red hair, freckles, and boyish look of Colored sculpture draw associations to such literary and pop cultural characters as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine. Highly polished in appearance, the work is suspended with heavy chains from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its movements. The sheer physicality of the installation, which fills the entire gallery space and includes the work being hoisted and thrown forcefully to the ground, viscerally blurs the distinction between figuration and abstraction, while furthering the formal and narrative possibilities of sculpture. The sculptureโs eyes employ facial recognition technology to track spectatorsโ gazes and movements, thereby adding another layer of interactive corporeality to the work. Using fiber optics, its eyes also intermittently display a range of imagery and video footage, including the artistโs own animations and filmed footage, and other found visual material, all of which seem to mine the subconscious preoccupations and desires of our society and consumer culture. The workโs incongruous accompanying soundtrack further underscores the complex tensions and distortions that the artist establishes between reality and artificiality, subject and object, meaning and sense. The exhibition will be on view until June 25, 2016 at David Zwirner Gallery in New York.
