Mitchell-Innes & Nash

ITEM · June 30 - August 13, 2010

534 W 26th Street
June 30 - August 13, 2010

Press Release

Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces a group exhibition entitled "ITEM," on view in the Chelsea gallery from June 30 to August 13, 2010. The exhibition focuses on lists, arrangements, collections, and patterns.

ITEM is an object, an instance, a word on a list, a thing depicted, or the artwork itself. ITEM connotes the mechanical and commercial, but also the particular and individual. It implies both singularity and aggregation. The artists in ITEM work in different media, with different approaches to artmaking, with images, objects, and text. Taken together, however, the works in the exhibition call to mind behavioral and decorative patterns, and collections of words and things: an interest in describing the world in its itemized peculiarity. In these works, repetition serves not merely to emphasize, but to describe more fully.

In ITEM there is an atmosphere of sneaky fun, and rigorous practices are inflected by human idiosyncrasies or allowed mistakes.




ARTISTS
Erica Baum
Mel Bochner
Carol Bove
Mathew Cerletty
Liz Deschenes
Wayne Gonzales
Rashid Johnson
Giorgio Morandi
Allen Ruppersberg
Stephen Shore
Michael Smith
Roger White

Listings Information:

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is located at 534 West 26th Street. Tel: 212 744 7400 web: www.miandn.com

Summer hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 6 pm

Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 30, 6 – 8 pm

Press contact: mamie@miandn.com

Exhibition Images

CAROL BOVE
"Untitled," 2008
Peacock feathers on linen in plexi-glas frame
96 by 48 by 5 in.


ERICA BAUM
"Untitled (Nude Figures, Shells, Triumphs)," 1998
Gelatin silver print
16 by 20 in.


MEL BOCHNER
"Die," 2005
Oil and acrylic on canvas
60 by 80 in.


ROGER WHITE
"Linda M. Sparks," 2009
Oil and pencil on canvas
60 by 40 in. 152.4 by 101.6 cm.


MICHAEL SMITH
"Sears Class Portraits #1 1999-2007," 2008
Set of 14 framed pigment prints
Each: 13 by 10 in. 33 by 25.4 cm.


WAYNE GONZALES
"Untitled," 2009
Acrylic on canvas
84 by 90 in. 213.4 by 228.6 cm.


ALLEN RUPPERSBERG
"Honey I rearranged the collection ... (the monochrome painter)," 2002
Pencil on silkscreen
29 1/2 by 41 in. 74.9 by 104.1 cm.


MATHEW CERLETTY
"Key," 2010
Oil on linen
triptych, overall: 49 by 119 in. 124.5 by 302.3 cm.


RASHID JOHNSON
"Time Flies," 2010
White ceramic tile, mirror, plant, vinyl, book, shea butter, space rock
48 by 73 by 8 5/8 in. 121.9 by 185.4 by 21.9 cm.


Installation view


Installation view


Installation view


Installation view


Installation view


GIORGIO MORANDI
Untitled
Pencil on paper
5 9/16 by 9 in. 14.1 by 22.9 cm.