~MAIL ORDER MONSTERS/PERES PROJECTS/Berlin
MAIL ORDER MONSTERS, Curated by KATHY GRAYSON
with: FRAN SPEIGEL, DENNIS TYFUS, BEN JONES, TOMOO GOKITA, EDDIE MARTINEZ, WES LANG,
RY FYAN, TAYLOR McKIMENS & JOE GRILLO
July 1 – August 4, 2007
PERES PROJECTS/Berlin
POSTER IMAGE: courtesy PERES PROJECTS, image: TOMOO GOKITA
if you are in BERLIN, you can catch the last week of this show, apparently the hit of the summer 2007 season. if not, not to worry – the show is coming to DEITCH PROJECTS, this FALL – in fact, the opening has been moved up to: THURS SEPT 6th, 2007. (6-9pm) (76 Grand ST)
KATHY GRAYSON photographed at the recent NICOLA VASSELL opening on Greene St. in SOHO,
MAY 11, 2007
PHOTO: Nancy Smith
more pix of KATHY & her friends at Nicola’s
. . . back to ‘MAIL ORDER MONSTERS’, from the press release:
“Peres Projects presents a group exhibition by curator Kathy Grayson, exploring new trends in fucked-up figuration. Every generation has its unique take on the figure and the most exciting new art seems to all see the figure as broken, decaying, fractured, and monstrous! Each artist in this exhibition exemplifies this pervasive tendency in a unique way …”
some images from the PERES PROJECTS website:
TAYLOR McKIMENS, ‘Goo Girl on Cement Bags’, 2007
TAYLOR McKIMENS, ‘Melt Truck’, 2007
DENNIS TYFUS, ‘She Had Mushrooms’, 2005
TOMOO GOKITA, ‘Woman of the Year’, 2006
JOE GRILLO, ‘Detroit Graffiti’, 2007
JOE GRILLO, ‘The Real American Tail (theusaisamonster)’, 2007
JOE GRILLO, ‘Nestle Mesca’, 2007
WES LANG, ‘What is and What Never Should be’, 2007, acrylic on fabric
WES LANG, ‘From the Red, White and Blue’, 2007
WES LANG, ‘Of Sad Songs and Waltzes’, 2007
all ‘MAIL ORDER MONSTERS’ images: COURTESY PERES PROJECTS/Berlin