Nate Lowman

- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
  
  The exhibition gets its title from gangsta rapper Bad Azz’s embellishment on the phrase, “Money talks, bullshit walks.” In order to disrupt the mall-like atmosphere of New York’s fast track exhibitions neighborhood and activate a space in Chelsea’s cultural graveyard, works have been chosen from artists of varying ages who deal with cultural critique, especially of the machinations and accessories of capitalism. Appropriation, displaced authorship, collaboration, and the relationship between artistic media and content are themes played out in the works of both the artists in the show who are only beginning to exhibit and those that have already been written into history.
  Art & Language’s Axioms, compiled in 1978, are as relevant as ever. Robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of a young boy, used by Jesse Helms in his attempt to dismantle the NEA, still retains, and regains, its cultural currency.
  Bernadette Corporation presents video stills from a film that weaves found footage of the G8 riots in Genoa with meta-monologues commenting on the act of protesting, resulting in a critique of narrative. As in the exhibition’s other works, the critique destabilises the content of the image. (Chivas Clem’s re-photograph of Sean “Puffy” Combs, Anne Collier’s representation of self-help tapes, M. A. Peers’s painted portraits of mid-level corporate executives.) Reconstruction and re-evaluation (of the image) through startling combinations of media take place in both Isa Genzken’s sculptures and Jonathan Horowitz’s depictions of a modern American Gothic.
  At its best, artistic practice remains on the peripheries of professional conduct. If money talks, bullshit (and other scatology) is the science of what is wholly other (Bataille). A recent press statement from Michael Jackson’s attorneys reads, “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will run this marathon in court.” Though such high drama has little to do with the explicit conceit of the exhibition, bullshit runs rampant within it. All of the exhibiting artists engage in activities and modes of production which refute essentialist work ethics and, via some bullshit or other, plot to (as Gareth James puts it) kill the idiots (sic).
  Nate Lowman
- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
- "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon", curated by Nate Lowman
  Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
  April 8 - May 8, 2004
  
  Art & Language, Patterson Beckwith, Bernadette Corporation, Jennifer Bornstein, Chivas Clem, Anne Collier, Ian Cooper, Jenn Cullen, Isa Genzken, Doug Harvey, Jonathan Horowitz, Gareth James, Jane Kaplowitz, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Mayerson, Adam McEwen, M.A. Peers, Michael St. John, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Situational Prosthetics", curated by Nate Lowman
  New Langdon Arts, San Francisco
  January 19 - February 19, 2005
  
  Todd Alden, Hernan Bas, Mike Bouchet, Jenn Cullen, Richard Godfrey, Jane Kaplowitz, Pali Kashi, Kyoko Kawahata, Adam McEwen, Mai-Thu Perret, the Power of Positive Thinking, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, and Aaron Young
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- "Beneath the Underdog", curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
  Gagosian Gallery, New York
  April 27 - June 16, 2007
  
  Bas Jan Ader,  Richard Aldrich, Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla,  Eleanor Antin,  Tauba Auerbach,  Alex Bag,  Monica Bonvicini,  Derek Boshier,  Joe Bradley,  Cecily Brown,  William Burroughs,  Lygia Clark,  Dan Colen , Anne Collier , Devon Costello,  Keith Coventry , Jessica Diamond,  Jim Dine, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeff Elrod, Matias Faldbakken, Paul Feeley, Peter Fischli + David Weiss, Claire Fontaine, George Gach, Michael Joaquin Grey, Robert Grosvenor, Raymond Hains, Douglas Huebler, Gwen John, Daniel Knorr, Yayoi Kusama, Barry Le Va, Sherrie Levine, Hanna and Klara Liden, David Lieske, Lee Lozano, Allan McCollum + Louise Lawler, Bjarne Melgaard, Otto Muehl, Kaz Oshiro, Richard Prince, David Rabinowitch, Torbjørn Rødland, Josh Smith, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, J. St. Bernard, Emily Sundblad, Franz West, Dee Williams, Sue Williams Johannes Wohnseifer, Aaron Young
  
  Photo: Robert McKeever
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
  
  303 Gallery is proud to present our eighth exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sue Williams.
  
  Curated by artist Nate Lowman, Williams’ first exhibition at 303 Gallery since 2005 is a retrospective spanning the last 20 years of her practice, from 1990 to present day. The show aims not simply to chronologize Williams’ progression, but to contextualize her work according to the formal and topical arteries she has consistently cut through as an artist.
  
  Williams’ first wave of works echoed and argued with the dominant feminist aesthetic of the time, with a frank and caustic eye toward gender politics and the sanctuary of the body. In the years since, her focus has never waned yet her aesthetic interests have morphed and regenerated along with her subject matter and memories. In the work “Ballerinas Attempt To Rematerialize, Knowing They Face Technical Difficulties" (1991), the faded image of a mind is static, attacked by shards of the subconscious. Existing as a functional blueprint of all Williams’ concerns as an artist: vulgarity, femininity, violation, loss, pride, dominance, and the overarching repetition of organic forms at their most innocuous and most sinister, the painting sits next to “Side by Side with Vine” (1995), an altogether more whimsical affair. Strewn across an off-white color field are chunks of dislocated body parts, topsy-turvy and abandoned. Hilariously obtuse and matter-of-fact, yet heavy with the gravity of repression, the painting treads the same conceptual lines as the earlier work, and includes the same strong sense of line, shadow and echo. Peaking ahead at “Pax Americana” (2010), the forms expand in their clarity, direction, and autonomy. They linger as evocative remnants of what at first may have been an overwhelming, impassible miasma, a distinct scene of carnage in war contrary to the title’s implication of peacetime.
  
  By the mid ‘90s, Williams began working in larger and more expansive fields, weaving narratives into larger memorial tapestries. The descriptive forms in “Darklight” (1996) intersect with one another, each story collapsing into the next. This reverberating nature of memory and interaction mirrors the complexity of everyday experience and develops into the tight calligraphic abstractions of “Red Flouncy (Go Team)” (1997), eventually evolving to the fluid abstract gestures of “Swinger” (2002). By 2005, the forms have completely overtaken each other, with Williams moving into a completely abstract mode, though a sense of the anthropomorphic is still present in “Bindweed and Red”, an allegorical ode to a pestilent weed. 2010’s “War of the Testicles” follows along similar lines, an intricate network of channels existing in comfortingly hideous harmony. As the bulbous forms jiggle, spew, and rot into each other, the effect becomes singular. No longer does Williams have to comb through her memory for the sticky bits, she can illustrate a conclusive and all-encompassing conjuring of everything at once.
  
  An illustrated artist’s book created by Sue Williams and Nate Lowman will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
  
  Sue Williams began showing at 303 Gallery in 1990 and her work is currently on view in “Collecting Biennials” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions that include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Vancouver Art Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Vancouver Canada, P.S. 1 Contemporary At Center, Long Island City, NY, Kunst Werke Berlin Germany, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has had solo exhibitions at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; IVAM, Valencia, Spain; Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; among others.
  
  Nate Lowman lives and works in New York, and his work has been exhibited at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Olso, the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1, and has curated exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, New York (with artist Adam McEwan), The Station, Miami (with curator Shamim Moman), Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, and New Langton, San Francisco.
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010
- Sue Williams
  "Al-Qaeda is the CIA"
  Curated by Nate Lowman
  September 18 – October 23, 2010