Motel
1078 Dekalb Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Sunday, 1PM—6PM
(or by appointment)
About
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Strangers forming a group waiting to kiss
Curated by Salon Salon
August 15 — 22 2015
Opening Reception:
Saturday, August 15, 2015
7—10pm
Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn’t it? Doesn’t calling something irrelevant make it
“Painting is dead.”
“You’re angry yet I’m still doing me. To be honest, you’re so tight about my life; you sound more like a fan than a hater,” said Painting.
Perhaps there is some biological imperative to make marks with liquid. One hundred years after Malevich reduced painting to ■ we’re standing in a room full of new ones.
Or maybe painting is a zombie. “The Forever Now” was MoMA’s first contemporary painting show since 1984. Yet experts agree that approximately thirty-five to 20,000 paintings were made since 1984. So MoMA finally caved and ceded their wall space to this undead medium.
The cave paintings at Maros predate the Venus of Willendorf by ~10,000 years.
The Mona Lisa is much hotter than the Venus of Willendorf.
You can’t hang the Venus of Willendorf above your couch.
Please join Salon Salon and Motel Gallery in a toast to a few more millennia of a dead medium.
- with works by:
- Alex Constable,
- Alexandria Tarver,
- Andrew Jilka,
- Anja Salonen,
- Beatrice Adler-Bolton,
- Catherine Pearson,
- Cody Goebl,
- Colin McElroy,
- Connor Stankard,
- Corey Bernstein,
- Dana Powell,
- Darryl Westly,
- Dylan Kraus,
- Edgie Alfonso,
- Esmé Shapiro,
- Frances Cocksedge,
- George Sanders,
- Holly Coulis,
- Isabel Legate,
- Jesse Moretti,
- Jessica Harrison,
- Jonny Gillette,
- Josiah Ellis,
- Kellian Delice,
- Lali Foster,
- Lauren Rodriguez,
- Leander Capuozzo,
- Lillie West,
- Liz Guzman,
- Logan Criley,
- Loie Hollowell,
- Lorenzo Bueno,
- Matias Arganaraz,
- Michael Hunter,
- Nora Normile,
- Nick Irzyk,
- Omari Douglin,
- Patrick Groth,
- Paul Wackers,
- Peter Zahore,
- Rachel Zaretsky,
- Raf Foster,
- Riley Duncan,
- Sara Rabin,
- Skylar Hughes,
- Steve Price,
- Tessa Perutz,
- Willie Stewart,
- Zach Marshall
Past Exhibitions
- 2020
- Corin Hewitt / 11 January
- 2019
- Slipstream / 16 November
- Bone Meal / 29 September
- Chris Domenick / 19 January
- 2018
- Colleen Billing / 3 November
- Rachelle Dang / 15 September
- Cupping the Counter / 30 June
- Tenaya Lee Izu / 12 May
- Harry Gould Harvey IV / 6 April
- Wading in a Puddle / 17 February
- Material Art Fair (Sydney Shen) / 8 February
- 2017
- GaHee Park / 4 November
- Will Wheeler / 16 September
- ROBERTA PELAN / 22 July
- Nick Waters and Curtis Wallen / 17 June
- Sydney Shen / 6 May
- Kayode Ojo and Winslow Laroche / 18 March
- Tom Forkin / 11 February
- NADA New York (Michael Assiff) / 2 March
- 2016
- Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean / 10 December
- a rose is a rose is a cave / 5 November
- Connor Stankard / 1 October
- David La Spina / 28 August
- Aline Bouvy (organized by Bunk Club) / 25 June
- Willie Stewart / 30 April
- NADA New York (Weston Lowe) / 5 May
- Veronika Pausova / 26 March
- What came of picking flowers? / 13 February
- January
- 2015
- Isabel Legate / 20 November
- Colleen Billing and Riley Duncan / 24 October
- Evana Roman / 12 September
- Strangers forming a group waiting to kiss / 15 August
- Weston Lowe / 27 June
- Room Service / 15 May
News
- 2018
- Brooklyn Rail / October
- The New York Times / April
- Artspace / February
- Artforum / January
- 2017
- Art Viewer / September
- Totokaelo / June
- Art Viewer / May
- Sex Magazine / May
- AQNB / April
- Art Viewer / March
- The Art Newspaper / March
- Artspace / March
- 2016
- Brooklyn Magazine / December
- AQNB / October
- Brooklyn Magazine / October
- The Word / July
- Art Viewer / July
- Art Observed / May
- Creators Project / May
- Artinfo / February
- Observer / January
- 2015
- Artinfo / November
- Artsy / November
- Observer / August
- Art F City / August
- Flavor Pill / August