Participating artists: Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel, T. Kelly Mason

We will show three works from Pierre Bismuth’s ongoing series called “Collages For Men” in which Bismuth appropriates images from porn magazines, undermining their lascivious purpose with the addition of cut-out, collaged clothing. We will also show a new sculpture called “One thing made from another, One thing used as another”, consisting of an oversized reproduction of a MoMA poster illustrating Jasper Johns’ `Flag’ painting from 1954-55, folded origami-style to mimic a typical Donald Judd “Box” sculpture.

Ryan Gander will exhibit works from a new series of unique photographs that document sections of a large cork board covered with pinned postcards, magazine clippings, notes, email correspondance and photographs that construct several intersecting narratives.

Karl Haendel’s seductive graphite drawings reproduce appropriated cultural artifacts, press photographs, cartoons and text installed in groupings that construct personal narratives, skewer American consumer culture and form subtle political and cultural critiques. Haendel will exhibit his largest work to date, incorporating 11 drawings spread over 35 feet that form a meditation on 60s technology and Cold War culture.

T. Kelly Mason is known for installations and videos that blur the distinctions between art and music in a diverse body of sound works, sculptures, photographs, videos and drawings. We will show a new sculptural installation called “Rain, Rain, Rain, Up in Smoke and Down the Drain” consisting of an architectural environment made of aluminum tubing and packing blankets. Installed on the interior are speakers playing multi channel recordings that mimic sounds associated with rain and a text based video. M