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Hanae Kawai - Memory Recorder Painting in the 21st Century Juried by Stephen Henry Madoff Opening Reception: Friday, September 21st, 6–9PM September 21st – October 21st, 2018 165 7th Street, Brooklyn, New York

Site:Brooklyn Gallery is pleased to present Painting in the 21st Century, an international open call for submission juried by Steven Henry Madoff.

Did painting, as some have argued, reach a dead end with the culmination of abstraction in the late 20th century? If anything, the opposite seems to be true. Representation and abstraction, historically, were not, and are not, total opposites. Abstraction almost inevitably has representational qualities (as Jackson Pollock’s work demonstrates). To look at the issue from a different direction, abstracted guration was the hallmark of move- ments like Post-Impressionism. As much of this exhibition demonstrates, abstraction and representation are often vitally intertwined. This show seeks to illuminate some of these interactions and dilemmas, by showing a selection of contemporary painting, in all of its variety and in- ventiveness. While the work is from all across the world, with a number of styles and social commitments, nevertheless, the exhibition, has a feeling of cohesion and direction. What stands out most is the interplay between the effects of new media (especially social networks such as Instagram), the verities of brush and canvas, and the ever-present tensions between guration and abstraction. Speci cally, many of the works engage by giv- ing the viewer a feeling of abstraction anthropomorphized, touching on themes of trans-humanism and the future of the body as a unitary, stable, whole. About the Juror: Steven Henry Madoff is the founding chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Previously, he served as senior critic at Yale University’s School of Art. He lectures internationally on such subjects as the history of interdisciplinary art, contemporary art, and art pedagogy. He has served as execu- tive editor of ARTnews magazine and as president and editorial director of AltaCultura, a project of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His books include Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) from MIT Press; Pop Art: A Critical History from University of California Press; Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity from Princeton University; To Seminar (contributor) from Metropolis M Books. Forthcoming: The Power of the Unseparate: Network Aesthetics and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Art from University of Chicago Press; What About Activism? (editor) from Sternberg Press; and After the Educational Turn: Critical Art Pedagogies and Decolonialism (contributor) from Black Dog Press. Essays on pedagogy have recently appeared in volumes associated with conferences at art academies in Beijing, Paris, Utrecht, and Gothenburg. He has written monographic essays on various artists, such as Marina Abramović, Georg Baselitz, Ann Hamilton, Rebecca Horn, Shirin Neshat, and Kimsooja, for museums and art institutions around the world. His criticism and journalism have been translated into many languages and have appeared regularly in such publications as the New York Times, Time magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Tate Etc., as well as in ARTnews and Modern Painters, where he has served as a contributing editor. He has curated exhibitions internationally over the last 30 years in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Madoff is the recipient of numerous awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. He holds his BA in English Literature from Columbia University, his MA in English and American Literature from Stanford University, and his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

Artists: Boles, Liza Hennessey Botkin, David Brown, Petey Brown, Belinda Bryce, Peter Bushell, Ashley Carroll, Khalil Charif, Tracey Chaykin, Tyrell Collins, Ann Conrad, Chris Costan, Mary Cozens, Lori Crawford, Ben Cricchi, Melody Croft, Dylan DeWitt, Corinne Diop, Beth Dorsey, Eduardo Fausti, Deborah Freedman, Michelle Friars, Sophia Gallo, Ewa Gavrielov, Victoria General, Michael Giles, Jon Goebel, Noble Golden, Minako Iwamura, Gesine Janzen, Danielle Jones, Julia Justo, Dani Daeun Kang, Alysia kaplan, Linda Kessler, Lenka konopasek, Jeremy Kortes, Molly Kraus, Diego Lasansky, Alexander laurent, Jinhee Lee, Cheryl Levin, Steven Levine, R.H. Levinson, David Shechter, Judy Lipman, Yanqing Low, Rita Maas, Cynthia MacCollum, Jeffrey Marshall, Natsuko Matsumura, Daniel McDonald, Kar-en McLaughlin, Paul Murray, Jan Nelson, Kristina Norvilaitė, Mio Olsson, Karen Palsdottir, Ashley Pelletier, Caroline Peters, Leon Phillips, Jeanne Potter, Miguel Saludes, Michael Scherfen, Bianca Severijns, Liz Shepherd, Hye Shin, Jackson Siegal, Meredith Starr, Laura Sussman-Randall, Taro Takizawa, Ken Wood, Olena Zintchouk

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