A Machinery for Living Organized by Walead Beshty
Atelier EB
Look 3
Manet - cream polo shirt buttoned up and tucked in to Shorty - silk shorts worn with a cream pair of plimsoles on feet and Piastre - necklace worn round neck, Cleo - white cap worn on head.
Spring/Summer
Barbara T. Smith
Upon the Completion of a Love Affair With a Machine Drawing
1965-1966
Xerox print
11 x 14 inches, framed
Jay DeFeo
Untitled
c.1953-55
Iron wire, brass wire, silver, clear plastic, brass beads and glass beads
2 1/8 x 1 1/2 x 1/2 inches
Morgan Fisher
Drawing for Pendant Pair Paintings (orthographic)
2007
Pencil and acrylic on paper
3 works:
18 x 24 inches each
Morgan Fisher
Drawing for Pendant Pair Paintings (orthographic and oblique)
2007
Pencil and acrylic on paper
3 works:
18 x 24 inches each
Morgan Fisher
Drawing for Pendant Pair Paintings (isometric)(two parts)
2007
Pencil and acrylic on paper
3 works:
18 x 24 inches each
Rachel Harrison
*69
2014
Wood, polystyrene, cement, acrylic, shopping cart, copper telephone hula hoop, beer can, and toy gun
84 x 38 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches
Lewis Baltz
NIP #49: North Wall, Steelcase, 1123 Warner Avenue, Tustin
1974
Vintage gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches
Lewis Baltz
NIP #34: Milliken Road, between Gates and DuBridge Roads, looking East
1974
Vintage gelatin silver print
14 x 17 inch Halbe frame
Jay DeFeo
Untitled
c.1953-55
Galvanized steel wire, blackened steel wire and silver solder
1 3/4 x 5/8 x 5/8 inches
Claire Fontaine
Économie libidinale brickbat
2010
Brick, brick fragments, digital archival print and elastic band
8 3/8 x 5 x 2 1/4 inches
Atelier EB
Look 1
Bonnie - Spanish Hat worn on top of Maggie - Grey funnel neck jumper (pulled over head like snood) with Checkers - silver necklace round neck and Grainne - Wool skirt (funnel neck tucked in to skirt) - please look at look book for image if you require to see the above. Addition Summer School in Ardenne - shawl draped over one shoulder.
Fall/Winter 2011
Josiah Mcelheny
Models for an abstract body (after Delaunay and Malevich)
2012
Patinated cold-roll steel, cedar wood, low iron glass, hand blown and carved glass
65 3/8 x 24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
Thomas Barrow
F/T/S Libraries - S. Sunbeam, Albuquerque, NM
1977
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
Thomas Barrow
F/T/S Libraries - Gun Club Road - So.Wall
1978
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
Thomas Barrow
F/T/S Libraries - Gun Club Road - So.Wall
1978
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
Thomas Barrow
F/T/S Libraries - (TFB) Homage to Rietvold
1977
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 14 inches
Thomas Barrow
F/T/S Libraries - DD (Toronto)
n. 1976, p.1977
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Jewelry series)
1978
Graphite, charcoal and acrylic on paper
14 x 11 inches
Lewis Baltz
NIP #14: Foundation Construction, Many Warehouses, 2892 Kelvin, Irvine
1974
Vintage gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches
Lewis Baltz
NIP #33: Barranca Road, between Von Karmaan and Milliken Roads, looking Southwest
1974
Vintage gelatin silver print
14 x 17 inch Halbe frame
Claire Fontaine
La societe du spectacle brickbat
2006
Bricks and brick fragments, laser impression, rubber band
7 x 4 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches
Atelier EB
Look 4
Gres - long sleeved cross over t-shirt tucked into Wave - high waisted elasticated skirt. Swiss - braclet worn wound wrist. Carine - navy leather bag worn on one shoulder and Ost End Girls cap on head. Black pair of plimsoles worn on feet.
Spring/Summer
Atelier EB
Look 2
Liz - round neck tobacco jumper worn with Phillipa - tobacco trousers worn under two tone Zurich - Mackintosh with Tugendhat bonnet on head. With McEachan - running dog patterned scarf loosely draped round neck.
Fall/Winter
Rudi Gernreich
Designs for Caftans and Unisex Bathing Suits
1970
Photograph, newsprint
8 x 11 inches
Lucy McKenzie
Project for a Nazi Living Room
2012
4 drawings: pencil, ink, aquarelle on paper
25.39 x 42.32 inches
Lucy McKenzie
Project for Nazi Decor
2012
3 drawings: pencil, colored pencil, ink, aquarelle on paper
29.92 x 11.61 inches
Lucy McKenzie
Project for an Objectivist Hallway
2012
4 drawings: pencil, colored pencil, aquarelle on paper
39.37 x 23.23 inches
James Welling
Untitled
1975
(2014 reconstruction of lost 1975 original)
Rusted coat hangers
Dimensions variable
Liz Glynn
Smuggled Fragments from Anonymous Needs and Desires (Gaza/Giza) (3 cigarettes, baby food, garlic, perfume, lemon, and Viagara)
2012
Cast lead
Dimensions variable
Kelley Walker
Pioneer PL-518 Series (I Hate the Capitalist System)
2014
Pantone and four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink on MDF, latex painted pedestal
27 x 24 x 24 inches
Liam Gillick
Pinboard Project (Corn)
2013
Chipboard, dyed jute, wood, screws, printed Ingres paper, various papers
39.5 x 39.5 inches
Liam Gillick
Pinboard Project (Blue Gray)
2013
Chipboard, dyed jute, wood, screws, printed Ingres paper, various papers
39.5 x 39.5 inches
Stephen Prina
A photograph, the principal source of illumination of which is work by Dan Flavin, I
1992
Cibachrome print (unique), rag board, lacquer-rubbed maple, acrylic, screen-print on acrylic
62 x 85 3/4 inches
Stephen Prina
A photograph, the principal source of illumination of which is work by Dan Flavin, II
1992
Cibachrome print (unique), rag board, lacquer-rubbed maple, acrylic, screen-print on acrylic
61 3/4 x 84 3/4 inches
Dan Flavin
Untitled (Monument for V. Tatlin)
1967
Cool white fluorescent light
96 x 24 x 4 1/4 inches
Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce “A Machinery for Living,” a group exhibition organized by Walead Beshty, opening Wednesday, July 2nd, from 6:00 – 8:00PM. The exhibition will remain on view until August 8th 2014.
There must be no doubt about the dangerous essence of the everyday, nor about this uneasiness that seizes us each time that, by an unforeseeable leap, we stand back from it and, facing it, we discover that precisely nothing faces us: "What? " "Is this my everyday life? "Not only must one not doubt it, but one must not dread it; rather one ought to seek to recapture the secret destructive capacity that is in play in it, the corrosive force of human anonymity, the infinite wearing away.
- Maurice Blanchot
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints—such people have a corpse in their mouth.
- Raoul Vaneigem
A house is not a machine á habiter. It is the shell of a man – his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
- Eileen Gray
We live, for the most part, in enclosed rooms.
- Paul Scheerbart
Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London, UK) is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles, and Associate Professor in the Graduate Art Department of Art Center College of Design.
Petzel Gallery is located at 456 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. For press inquiries, please contact Janine Latham at janine@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.
456 W 18th Street New York NY 10011 Tel 212 680 9467 Fax 212 680 9473 info@petzel.com www.petzel.com
PARTICIPANTS
Atelier EB
Lewis Baltz
Thomas Barrow
Maurice Blanchot
Bassam Fellows
Claire Fontaine
Jay DeFeo
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Morgan Fisher
Dan Flavin
Rudi Gernreich
Liam Gillick
Liz Glynn
Eileen Gray
Jan Groover
Rachel Harrison
Larry Johnson
Craig Kauffman
Romain Kremer
Sharon Lockhart
Lee Lozano
Josiah McElheny
Lucy McKenzie
Helen Pashgian
Raymond Pettibon
Francis Picabia
Stephen Prina
Paul Scheerbart
Barbara T Smith
Dr. Dain L Tasker
Joaquim Tenreiro
Raoul Vaneigem
Kelley Walker
James Welling
Henry Wessel
Franz West
Christopher Williams
