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Deitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.
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History
Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few public events. It is known as a gallery where many of the most well-known artists of the past decade--Cecily Brown, Inka Essenhigh, Barry McGee, Swoon and Kristin Baker to name a few--began their careers. The gallery closed in Summer 2010.[1]
Exhibitions
- "The Shopping Exhibition" in 1994 with installations by twenty-six artists in twenty-six shops in soho
- "I Bite America and America Bites Me" a 1997 performance in which Oleg Kulik lived in the gallery for a few days as a dog
- "I Peed in the Northeast Corner of the Gallery," a NeoFluxus anti-revivalism installation lasting 27 seconds
- Yoko Ono’s 1998 exhibition "Ex It," featuring trees growing out of one hundred wooden coffins
- "State of the Union" by the Brooklyn based Artist Lane Twitchell in 1999.
- "Swinger" by the late Canadian Artist Roland Brener in 2000.
- "Diva Fictions," by Kurt Kauper in 2000.
- "Sentimental Education" curated by David Rimanelli, featuring Alex Bag, Patterson Beckwith, Jon Boskovitch, Delia Brown, Chivas Clem, Jessica Craig-Martin, Hannah Greely, Jonathan Hammer, Deb Lacusta, Daria Martin, Milena Muzquiz and Rob Pruitt.
- "Session the Bowl" featuring Simparch, Barry McGee, Larry Clark and others in 2002.
- "Street Market" a collaborative installation with Barry McGee, Todd James and Steve Powers in 2000 that made an apocalyptic version of an urban street come alive in the street
- Ten live performances by Fischerspooner in May, 2003.
- Adam Kalkin’s "Rural House Kit," a 2004 presentation consisting of a full-scale house made of shipping containers, with a rug designed by Jim Isermann and an indoor recreation of a dystopian model of a suburban road.
- Dearraindrop's Riddle of the Sphinx[2] installation at the Wooster Street space in June 2004. This "psychedelic Egyptian theme park" [3] installation was host to the weekend-long Everything is Soft barbecue and music festival featuring bands such as Elvish Presley, Devin Flynn's Plate Tectonics, and Kocho Bi-Sexual.[4]
- Tedious Limbs featuring Paper Rad, Noah Lyon and members of Forcefield in May 2005.
- Artstar, the first unscripted television series set in the New York art world in June/July, 2006.
- "Everybody Knew that Canadians were the Best Hockey Players," by Kurt Kauper in 2007.
- "Womanizer" a mixed media art exhibition curated by Kembra Pfahler and Julie Atlas Muz in January, 2007. The show included works by E. V. Day, Breyer P-Orridge, Vaginal Davis and burlesque performer Bambi the Mermaid.[5]
- Legends of Unity: World Cup 2010, a set of portraits of African soccer players by Kehinde Wiley, in February, 2010.[6]
References
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704081704574652733847021844.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
- ^ http://deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=16
- ^ http://www.hustlerofculture.com/me_we/2004/07/everything_is_s.html
- ^ http://www.kochobisexual.com
- ^ "Womanizer at the Deitch Projects". deitch.com. http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=202.
- ^ "Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke Olivares (captioned image)". Harper's (Harper's Foundation) 320 (1,919): 17. April 2010. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/04/0082884. Retrieved 15 August 2011. (subscription required)
External links
- Calvin Tomkins, Onward and Upward with the Arts, “A Fool for Art,” The New Yorker, November 12, 2007, p. 65 [1]
Categories:- 1996 establishments
- Culture of New York City
- Art galleries in Manhattan
- United States art museum and gallery stubs
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