Public-Holiday Projects participates in Bring the War Home
July - August, 2006
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, opening July 4 [click here for gallery site]
QED Gallery, Los Angeles, opening July 8 [click here for gallery site]Bring The War Home will exhibit art works made for the commercial sphere, as well as ephemera and documentation from the curatorial, performance, and publishing projects (made by artists for artists) that are also an important part of these artists’ practice. By presenting this work together in a commercial gallery, the paradoxical position of the artist is laid bare; the war is brought home, and the artist-driven activity which Jerry Saltz calls for and the internal self-reckoning that Andrea Fraser calls for is shown to be very much in practice already.
Bring the War Home is a joint exhibition that will be displayed both at the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York and QED in Los Angeles. It is an exhibition of collaborators, orchestrators, publishers, producers, and pirates organized by Drew Heitzler, co-founder of Champion Fine Art, a two-year gallery project of 21 artist-curated exhibitions, that ran from September 2003 to November 2005. A catalog for Bring The War Home with a text by Walead Beshty will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Public-Holiday Projects participates in Copilandia
December 28, 2005 - January 8, 2006
Sevilla Entre Culturas Festival, Spain
Public-Holiday Projects participates in Copilandia, the copyright-free island, as part of the Sevilla Entre Culturas Festival, Spain. For more information, visit www.copilandia.org.
Public-Holiday Projects included in Champion Fine Art: 2003–2005
October 14 - November 5, 2005
ART2102, Los Angeles, California
ART2102 is pleased to invite you to the opening of Champion Fine Art: 2003-2005, a partial history of the two-year, two-city series of artists-curated shows which concludes this month. Focusing on the legacy of Champion Fine Art, the exhibition includes works and ephemera presented in some of the twenty-one shows at Champion, as well as an archive of cards and limited edition catalogs, offering an insight into the artists-run gallery, and reflecting on the energy that drove it. As remnants of the two-year program, the work in the exhibition emulates the temporary nature of Champion as well as its focus on process and do-it-yourself attitude.
Currently based in Culver City, Champion Fine Art was initiated in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2003 by Drew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann as an artists' space that would host twenty-one exhibitions over a period of two years. Each project was curated by an artist, and often followed existing networks of friends and practitioners. Developing out of a defining moment for many artists-run galleries, Champion aimed to preserve the independent nature of such spaces and resist the growing influence of curatorial professional practice, the bureaucracy that often results from non-profit organizations, and the market forces that drive commercial galleries.
For more information, please visit the website of Art2102.