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connecting the dots & shifting away


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Aurora de Armendi

Firelei Bez

Mitsuko Brooks

Carrie Elston Tunick

Neil Fernando

Yeji Jun

Amber Marsh

Zo McCloskey

Claudio Nolasco

David Rios-Ferreira

Daniel Vasquez

FRENZY is a group exhibition of eleven exciting youngcontemporary artists working in the New York area,curated by Firelei Bez. The work on view was selectedas counterpoints to a recent Artforum article, Of LovePossesed, which references Giles Deleuze and FelixGuattaris ideas on corrupt love. It mentions how, as a society we are taught a corrupt kind of love, or the loveof oneself and those who are most like us: identitarianlove. Proposing that the greatest possible love would be

one that enables us to extend ourselves beyond theserestrictions, and love things outside our de nitions of the self; a love of alterity. This is a curious model that isconstantly pressed upon those de ned as other, any -one outside the mainstream cannon of commerce or

beauty. We, the other, are taught to always strive for anideal of beauty that is sometimes in complete opposi-tion to our physical and psychological selves. Are wethen most loving? How does one de ne cultural self-hatred when speaking in these terms? Would the work of seminal artists such as Kerry James Marshalls en-tire oeuvre, within Deleuze Guattaris con nes, be a categorically radical embrace of self, a corrupt love? Ordoes his insistence on establishing his work within a

western canon attest to the marginals more permis-sible love of alterity? Each of the artists in the exhibi-tion responded differently to these questions, creatingthe start to a rich ongoing visual dialogue.

F R E N Z Y :connecting the dots & shifting away

Cover:Mitsuko Brooks Asian Music Box II: why she left us

2010, Paper, book cover, 6 x 9


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Neil FernandoAsosena, 2008

Acrylic on Canvas16x16

p. 21, 22, 26 Yeji JunSHORT NECK GIRAFFE, 2011acrylic, water color and silver point on wood panel20X12X2

BIG TRANSITION, 2011 Acrylic and silver point on wood panel10x8

p.27 Amber MarshPorque Existe Otro Querer (from Dos Gardenias), 2011 Acrylic on Canvas13 x 16$500ish

p. 11, 14, 16, 17Zo McCloskey Because You Wish they Were Watching 1, 2 and 3, 2011 Adhesive letters on Mirror,dimmensions variable

Let Them Trick You, 2010Gouache and Spray Enamel of Paper4x6 inches each

p.12, 13. 15, 18Claudio NolascoUntitled, 2011Black and White Photograph20 x 30

Untitled, 2011Black and White Photograph20 x 30



Artworks Listed:

3, 5, 7, 9urora de Armendil Mar en mi Memoria (The Sea in my Memory) #1, #2, #3, #4 details, 2008ithograph & Monotype,17.50 x 17.50

28irelei Bezntitled, from Une Regard Autre series, 2011

nk on Yuppo paper, x 6 inches

4, 6, 8, 10, 34Mitsuko Brookshak-les in the heart, 2009

ollage on book cover, x 8.5

here were three children in the family...,2009ollage on book cover x 11

exuality II: the white woman is burning up, 2010ouache, paper, book board x 9

ndiginaety, 2011ollage on book board x 9

-sewing the wound, 2008ollage on wood4 x 32

.20, 24arrie Elston Tunick

Wall Kiss, 2010ilicone, hot glueariable dimensions

ig Kiss, 2010ilicone, hot glueariable dimensions

29, 30eil Fernandoalut, 2008crylic on Canvas6 X 16


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19, 23, 25avid Rios FerreiraVelorio, 2011

ouache and color pencil on drafting lm4 X 36

takes a village, 2008ouache on paper7 X 33 in

avid Rios Ferreirahe more time passes, the more I love yououache and non-photo blue pencil on paper6 X 45 in

31,32,33, 37aniel Vasquez

ntitled. 2011.il on canvas.0 x 24

ntitled. 2011.il on canvas.6 x 20

ntitled. 2011harcoal on paper.8 x 23.5

ntitled. 2011harcoal on paper.8 x 23.5


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SPACE 1950 seeks to engage artists in a dialogue with eachother and the community outside the constraints of commer-cial galleries

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