images from DOUBLE FEATURE : DANIEL DAVIDSON

Here are some images, as well as our statement for Daniel Davidson's exhibit Double Feature which ran November 20th through December 20th, 2012 at ADA's sister project space in New York City, Mulherin + Pollard.

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 The works in “Double Feature” display figuration and abstraction as twin protagonists spilling into a spontaneous mirroring field, where the initial gesture of an inkblot or an accidental scratch can open out and transform into a tangled architecture of faces, dizzying designs, and vibrant color.

Davidson approaches his drawings by working directly on selected portions of the paper, often opposing faces with abstract forms on differing sides, then wetting the paper and making numerous folds to produce symmetrical transfers and unexpected new images—a process that results in something akin to an hallucinatory Rorschach test, a Burroughs-Gysin visual cut-up/fold-up experiment, or the remnants of some wildly disorienting dada parlor game.

 The source of his images are often anonymous faces both young and old, glimpsed from found photography, fashion advertising, or out-dated period portraits shorn of their original contexts, so that the multiplicity and complication underlying them are exposed—we see an exaggerated smile of joy come to reveal hidden terror or fear, or a simple, placid gaze become riddled with wonder, confusion, anxiety, or a sense of the mysterious.

 The “double feature” of the show’s title can also allude to the almost cinematic qualities of the drama that is choreographed and staged within the drawings, as figures become part of an unfolding narrative where visual elements are set free to unfurl in a looping montage of incongruous, complementary, and unexpected emotional states occurring before the viewer.

Davidson was born in San Francisco in 1965 and earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. He was the recipient of an American Academy in Rome Fellowship in the Visual Arts in 1994, and his work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv. Davidson has been showing Davidson has recently shown at Pierogi and Sloan  Gallery in New York and this is his second solo show at Mulherin + Pollard and has shown at ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA since 2006.  Davidson currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

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MORGAN HERRIN : OLOGY at MULHERIN + POLLARD

Morgan Herrin

Killed Sword

white oak

1 ) 1 8 x 24 x 6” 

2) 8 x 15 x 9” 

3) 16 x 17 x 4”

2012

$1,200 ea.

PRE-THANKSGIVING READING EXPLOSION KNOCKOUT TAKEDOWN!!! AT MULHERIN + POLLARD, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17

PRE-THANKSGIVING READING EXPLOSION KNOCKOUT TAKEDOWN!!! 
MULHERIN + POLLARD
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17 | 7PM |  187 CHRYSTIE STREET 


Jeffrey Rotter, celebrated great guy and author of the novel The Unknown Knowns. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including McSweeney's, the New York Times, and Spin.

Eric Amling, an excellent tipper, and author of the chapbook LEGAL PURE (Greying Ghost Press). His recent work appears or is

 forthcoming in 6x6, Crush and The Minus Times.

Jason Porter, adored by his own mother, and author of Why Are You So Sad?, the crisp little pip of a novel which is anticipating publication in an upcoming evenly numbered year in the majority of non-Mayan calendars.

Paul Benney, a full body translator and life-long learner. He co-directed the San Francisco based dance company OnSite during both the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries. Currently Mr. Benney teaches Recreational Arts at St. Ann's School and also can be safely said to improve anybody's dance party by a factor of seven.

When: 7 p.m., November 17, 2012 | Where: Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie Street, NYC | Why: Why not?

OLOGY at Mulherin + Pollard, Opening Thursday Nov.15 (6-9)

OPENING NOVEMBER 15, 2012

6-9pm

at

Mulherin + Pollard

OLOGY : MORGAN HERRIN new works

 Morgan Herrin, Otzi, 84" x 42" x 24", recycled lumber, 2012

MORGAN HERRIN : OLOGY  http://mulherinpollard.com/Morgan_Herrin_OLOGY.html Morgan Herrin is an artist with an extensive background in wood crafting and carpentry that unites a deep understanding and appreciation of the properties and materiality of wood with a fascination for the human form. His works have utilized wood to mimic materials ranging from the hard surfaces of iron, copper, and bronze, to the more delicate and fragile organic shapes found in nature, from plant and moss forms to bone and skin. In this new exhibition of his work, he takes as his subject the remains of the Ice Man (or "Oetzi" as scientists named him), the mummified 5,300-year-old man that was discovered in 1991 in the Eastern Alps near the border between Austria and Italy startlingly well preserved in the ice, as if thousands of years had not passed. The sculpture, in a similarly vivid fashion, is an astonishing, frighteningly lifelike image of our ancestral past captured in an almost dancing gesture, as if frozen in time for all of eternity to witness.

 Morgan Herrin, Otzi, 84" x 42" x 24", recycled lumber, 2012

copper gate

In his previous work, Herrin created works that harkened back to classical sculpture, using as his primary medium standardized dimensional lumber-planed wood with a smooth finish prepared primarily for commercial construction purposes. His newest work utilizes found, aged lumber, which allows for a rougher, weathered appearance and the qualities of a grittier realism, aligning perfectly with his current subject matter.

Herrin earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002 and an MFA in Sculpture in 2005 from Ohio State University in Columbus OH. His work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in the United States, as well as art fairs with ADA Gallery in Miami and New York City. Herrin lives and works in Richmond, VA, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University.

DANIEL DAVIDSON AT MULHERIN + POLLARD

DOUBLE FEATURE

DANIEL DAVIDSON

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MULHERIN + POLLARD

187 CHRYSTIE STREET

NY, NY 10002

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OPENING THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2012 , 6-9PM

http://mulherinpollard.com/Daniel_Davidson_Double_Feature.html

The works in "Double Feature" display figuration and abstraction as twin protagonists spilling into a spontaneous mirroring field, where the initial gesture of an inkblot or an accidental scratch can open out and transform into a tangled architecture of faces, dizzying designs, and vibrant color.

Davidson approaches his drawings by working directly on selected portions of the paper, often opposing faces with abstract forms on differing sides, then wetting the paper and making numerous folds to produce symmetrical transfers and unexpected new images-a process that results in something akin to an hallucinatory Rorschach test, a Burroughs-Gysin visual cut-up/fold-up experiment, or the remnants of some wildly disorienting dada parlor game.

The source of his images are often anonymous faces both young and old, glimpsed from found photography, fashion advertising, or out-dated period portraits shorn of their original contexts, so that the multiplicity and complication underlying them are exposed-we see an exaggerated smile of joy come to reveal hidden terror or fear, or a simple, placid gaze become riddled with wonder, confusion, anxiety, or a sense of the mysterious.

The "double feature" of the show's title can also allude to the almost cinematic qualities of the drama that is choreographed and staged within the drawings, as figures become part of an unfolding narrative where visual elements are set free to unfurl in a looping montage of incongruous, complementary, and unexpected emotional states occurring before the viewer.

Davidson was born in San Francisco in 1965 and earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. He was the recipient of an American Academy in Rome Fellowship in the Visual Arts in 1994, and his work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv. He has been included in numerous shows at Mulherin + Pollard and its sister space, ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA, and been featured at art fairs including most recently NADA Hudson (2012), as well as at this fall's DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Davidson currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

DANIEL DAVIDSON "DOUBLE FEATURE" OPENS NOV.15 AT MULHERIN + POLLARD (NYC)

LONGTIME ADA GALLERY ARTIST DANIEL DAVIDSON HAS A SOLO SHOW OF NEW MIRROR DRAWINGS AT MULHERIN + POLLARD, THURSDAY NOV. 15 (6-9PM)
187 CHRYSTIE STREET, NYC. 

DANIEL ONLY DRAWS ONE HALF OF THE DRAWING AND TRANSFERS THE REST VIA OLD FASHIONED LOVE AND ATTENTION.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SEE MORE DANIEL DAVIDSON..

KIRSTEN KINDLER IN ART ON PAPER 2012, WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM

Information Entity, mylar and paper, 2011

ADA GALLERY artist KIRSTEN KINDLER is participating

Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition

at the Weatherspoon Art Museum , Greensboro, NC

OCT 21, 2012 - JAN  13, 2013

 

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CHECK OUT MATTHEW FISHER'S NEW ADA PAGE!

Please go check out ADA GALLERY's new Matthew Fisher webpage,

filled with new paintings & drawings, as well as a few not so old, older works.

 Waves

2012

acrylic on Canvas

14 x 11 inches

price upon request

and below is a work from 2009

A Thousand Seasons to the Year

2009

acrylic on linen

70 x 60 inches

price upon request

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DANIEL DAVIDSON'S PICTURE BOOTH @ DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL

WE'RE AT IT AGAIN! THIS TIME AT THE DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL!

ANDREWANDREW VISIT THE PICTURE BOOTH

thanks to Lisa Kim and all those at the DUMBO Arts Festival!

& We're especially thankful to Daniel "The Machine" Davidson!

Here's a mention by Walter Robinson in ARTNET of the Picture Booth following Scope Miami, Art Basel Week 2006. 

MORE YANN LETO AT ADA GALLERY( RIGHT NOW)

 YANN LETO

THE LAW IS THE LAW

2012

NOW SHOWING AT ADA GALLERY, RICHMOND VA.

CIRCUS DANCES, drawings & paintings by LETO opens Sept. 7 at ADA GALLERY

LETO : CIRCUS DANCES

opens Friday September 7, 2012

at ADA gallery, 228 W. Broad St. RVA

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Yann Leto’s paintings have a knack for providing difficulty for the viewer. He has a certain obscene repulsion and attraction with the horrors of consumer culture, politics, the ultra-violence of the mass media, etc. It seems like the artist is making a statement regarding the state of humanity in the 21st Century.    However, if we place leto’s work in a wider context, it takes on a different resonance. His fascination with the mass media and it’s societal spectacle has become a theoretical gadget, if not a readymade. It seems like his strategy is to connect with the viewer by loading the canvas with figures of distinct accessibility, from Disney characters to popular media images of celebrities seen in newspapers, t.v. and magazines - something every media loaded human being has been exposed to.But on closer inspection they don’t call for any desire to build meaning. What leto is interested in is to dismantle the established codes of picturemaking. His strategies are performed on more formal levels, bordering on a farcical kind of conceptualism that nonetheless bludgeoned the conventions of painting to the point of ridicule. In short, leto is only interested in painting and yet he gives you a bad conscience afterwards.” 

- Manuel Ocampo  

French born artist, YANN LETO, now living in Spain, exhibits new drawings & paintings 

in his first solo show at ADA Gallery.

Daniel Davidson's Picture Booth at NADA Hudson 2012

Daniel Davidson's ADA Gallery Picture Booth at NADA Hudson, July 28 & 29, 2012.

SHRIGLEY at ADA

Famed Glasgow artist David Shrigley exhibits his million dollar pecker at ADA gallery!

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DESTROY YOUR EYEBALLS at ADA GALLERY

BLAQUE LYTE RICHMO'

at ADA GALLERY

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now through late July 2012

complete list of artists at bottom of page

Casey Farnum on left, Edra Soto above Paintallica on right

work by Lilli Carre on left. Michelle Wasson on right

Hanna Andersson

Brandon Heuser

Benton Moss above Mike Andrews

Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber

Rob Lee

Casey Farnum

Ben Stone

Keith Herzik 

hand colored etching by Céline Hudréaux

Hanna Andersson

more Nudd work

David ShrigleyLuminous Object2011Fimo4 x 1 x 3 inches

 Artists: Hanna Andersson, Mike Andrews, Able Brown, Lilli Carré, Bruce Conkle, Anya Davidson, Jo Dery, Michael Dumontier, Edie Fake, Neil Farber, Casey William Farnum, Sanya Glisic, Leif Goldberg, Keith Herzik, Brandon Heuser, Céline Hudréaux, Laurent Impeduglia, Klara Kristalova, Eric Lebofsky, David Leggett, Thomas Mazzarella, Benton Moss, Joakim Ojanen, Onsmith, Paintallica, Kristen Romaniszak, Marie Rosen, DeeDee Scacci, Seth Scriver, David Shrigley, Edra Soto, Ben Stone, Michael Swaney, Giselind von Wurmb, Michelle Wasson, Andrew Jeffrey Wright

Paul Nudd's cool poster

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