Grayscale

Gallery 1
BERNARD KIRSCHENBAUM
ANTON PERICH

Gallery 2
DIANA COOPER
TORKWASE DYSON
ALEXANDRA GORCZYNSKI
HUGH HAYDEN
AUSTIN LEE
WILLIAM POWHIDA

Is sex more intense while blindfolded?

Does the elimination of one sense amplify the others?
What happens to an art exhibition if one ever-present component is taken away?
What happens if you ask artists not to use color?
How does it impact creative process and perception?

The artworks in Grayscale are all black and white. And many shades of gray. More than fifty for sure.

The show is divided into two parts.

Anton Perich (b. 1945) and Bernard Kirschenbaum (1924-2016), two pioneering pre-media artists rooted in Pop and Minimalism respectively share the front gallery. Perich's black and white portraits created with his electric painting machine and his 1973/74 video "Muhammad Ali: The Lost and Found" are presented along Bernard Kirschenbaum, an early adopter of computer technology whose works explore geometry, scale, patterns and randomness. A group of his sequential drawings and a layered plexiglas sculpture "Entropy" (1996) will be on view.

In dialogue with Perich and Kirschenbaum, six younger artists in the second gallery engage in today's reverberations of Pop, Minimalism and current hotspots of content and form. Their works range from data visualizations of slave auctions sites (Dyson) to text based political charts (Powhida), expressive air brush portraits (Lee), resin and latex body impressions (Hayden), painterly digital prints (Gorczynski), and multimaterial abstract compositions (Cooper).

The color is missing, but do we really miss it?
Isn't sex more intense while blindfolded?

	Grayscale 2016 Installation View William Powhida (on left) and Torkwase Dyson (on right)
	Grayscale 2016 Installation View Anton Perich
	Anton Perich Inspiration Warhol 2007 acrylic on canvas 53 x 54 inches
	Anton Perich Liliana 1995 acrylic on raw canvas 65.75 x 48.25 inches
	Grayscale 2016 Installation View Diana Cooper
	Diana Cooper Highline 2016 mixed media 24.75 x 30 x .25 inches
	Diana Cooper Tarmac 1 2016 mixed media 40 x 28 x 1 inches
	Diana Cooper New Smyrna 2016 mixed media 35.5 x 34.5 inches
	Diana Cooper Silver and Straps 2016 mixed media 26.5 x 9.75 x 1.2 inches
	Diana Cooper Platonic Solids 2016 mixed media 12 x 8 x 3.5 inches
	Bernard Kirschenbaum Accumulations 2012 boxed set of 8 prints printing: David Young; typography: Jerry Kelly, paper:Hahnemule Photo Rag, box: Litelab 26.25 x 23.25 inches
	Bernard Kirschenbaum Accumulations (Installation View) 2012 printing: David Young; typography: Jerry Kelly, paper: Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, box: Litelab 26.25 x 23.25 inches edition of 10 + AP
	Bernard Kirschenbaum Entrophy 1996 smoked cast acrylic 52 x 63 inches edition of 3 + AP
	Bernard Kirschenbaum Entrophy (detail) 1996 smoked cast acrylic 52 x 63 inches edition of 3 + AP
	William Powhida Which Democrat Am I Voting For? The Republicans Are Not People, Fuck Them All 2016 graphite on paper, mounted on panel 16.25 x 23 inches
	William Powhida Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole... 2016 graphite on paper, mounted on panel 16.25 x 23 inches
	William Powhida Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong On The Right! 2016 graphite on paper, mounted on panel 16.25 x 23 inches
	William Powhida What Voting Democratic Felt Like...(Because People Are Fucking Disgusting On Social Media Platforms) 2016 graphite on paper, mounted on panel 16.25 x 23 inches
	Austin Lee Poppies 2016 acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
	Austin Lee Untitled 2016 spray paint on paper 14 x 11 inches
	Austin Lee Untitled 2016 spray paint on paper 14 x 11 inches
	Austin Lee Untitled 2016 spray paint on paper 14 x 11 inches
	Austin Lee Untitled 2016 spray paint on paper 14 x 11 inches
	Hugh Hayden Uphill 2016 human hair embedded in silicone on panel 12 x 18 inches
	Hugh Hayden Adam 2016 human hair embedded in silicone on panel 12 x 24 inches
	Hugh Hayden Man as a tree according to American Apparel 2016 successive-sized american apparel tshirts and California fleece sweat pants suspended in Aquaresin 73.5 x 38 x 1 inches
	Hugh Hayden Untitled (Fossil Fashion Series) 2016 successive-sized american apparel tshirts and California fleece sweat pants suspended in Aquaresin, metal 74 x 24 x 24 inches
	Torkwase Dyson Installation View
	Torkwase Dyson To Be Seen then Unseen 2015 laser cut on plexi and mirror plexi, wood 72 x 54 inches
	Torkwase Dyson Coming Into in Space, Tipping Over View 2015 ink on paper 19 x 24 inches
	Torkwase Dyson To Be Seen Then Unseen 2016 laser cut on matte plexi 5.875 x 7.875 inches
	Alexandra Gorczynki Valley 2016 archival pigment print 24 x 35.75 inches unique
	Alexandra Gorczynki Honey Water 2016 archival pigment print 24 x 35.75 inches unique