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Table Top

July 13, 2006- August 11, 2006

Reception: July 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Erica Baclawski, Jason Middlebrook, Fabian Birgfeld, David Moreno, Beth Campbell, Adam Ogilvie, Marti Cormand, David Payton, Annabel Daou, Raymond Pettibon, Alexander Gorlizki, Fidel Sclavo, Alex Hamilton, Ken Solomon, Xylor Jane, Nicolas Touron, Ricardo Lanzarini, Andy Warhol, Marco Maggi, Amy Wilson

Josee Bienvenu Gallery

529 W 20th St

The world deserves a break. A table and chair help resist the summer heat in Chelsea. Josee Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present Table Top, an invitation to slow down and take a sit. The exhibition, on view from July 13 to August 18, will include works on paper by 20 artists.

Table Top is a show of horizontal drawings, the negation of the tablecloth. One can go from table to table without loosing the perspective that reminds the original relationship between the paper and the artist. 20 drawing are seen from the distance they were made at. Most of the artists created a work specifically for the exhibition working on a 29 square inch sheet of paper, the exact size of a tabletop.

Some of the drawings are to be read: Raymond Pettibon’s watercolors with text; Amy Wilson’s cartoons; Beth Campbell’s Potential Future drawings or Nicolas Touron’s complex scenarios. Others are also meant to be read carefully but with no hope to be informed: The International Herald Tribune, Alex Hamilton’s abstract newspaper; Xylor Jane’s mathematical textures of intersecting lines; Marco Maggi’s insignificant codes on kitchen foil; David Moreno’s visual translations of sound waves or Annabel Daou’s rotating concrete poem Truth and Beauty. Alexander Gorlizki’s drawings on rolodex cards are to be flipped through at the table.

Fidel Sclavo’s watercolor classifications of anonymous fragments, Marti Cormand’s Table of Contents, an aerial view of the leftovers of a conversation; David Payton’s daily drawings of Diet Coke cans and Ken Solomon’s video projection of a month worth of meals are all arbitrary inventories of mundane life. Ricardo Lanzarini’s frantic little men in extravagant attire swarm around the tabletop like colonies of industrious insects. Adam Ogilvie, Jason Middlebrook, Fabian Birgfeld and Erica Baclawski’s landscapes are to be contemplated from top. The resulting show recalls the diversity of population at lunchtime in a busy cafe.



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Location   Gallery Josee Bienvenu Gallery Address 529 W 20th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-206-7990 Fax 212-206-8494 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6 Nearby: All 23 galleries at 529 W 20th St

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