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September 6, 2006- October 7, 2006
Daniel Lefcourt
Taxter & Spengemann
504 W 22nd St Daniel Lefcourt Breach of Contract (Total Nonperformance) & Clarification (2006) |  Daniel Lefcourt Apparent Misconduct (2006) |
Each photograph depicted a stage in the process of print production. The majority of photos were of a typical 'paste-up' board ('paste-up' was the technique used to do page layout prior to computers). Text and graphics were carefully placed along blue guidelines, which had been hand-drawn on a sheet of wax-covered paper. I tried to figure out the exact date and location of the publication but the heading for the page had not yet been inserted into the layout (I think it must have been a small-town newspaper). On the page were pieces of a story about a local political scandal. There was an assortment of potent fragments such as "...deregulated field...", "...put it in writing that he had seen...", "...difficult to maintain such a position...", "...in direct contradiction to previous...". From what I could gather funds had been surreptitiously diverted into some kind of cultural institution. The politician at the center of the controversy neither affirmed nor denied any involvement. (How quaint such overt spin seems when compared to our current administration's linguistic machinations.)
Perhaps what I have stumbled upon is a useful methodology--answers are provided to the wrong questions, statements are issued as a type of evasion, and sudden changes in position are conspicuously combined with incessant repetition. I'm working with a stage-prop company called Scenicorp... definitely appropriate for the subject. You'll see what I mean."
This is Daniel Lefcourt's second solo exhibition with Taxter & Spengemann. He will present works on the 1st and 2nd floors of the gallery. Lefcourt received his MFA from Columbia University in 2005 and his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. His first solo exhibition, Put all Doubt to Rest was in November of 2004 at Taxter & Spengemann. In October 2005 he had a solo show at Groeflin Maag Galerie in Basel Switzerland. He has been included in numerous group shows such as: The Gold Standard, Day Labor, Greater New York, and Animations, all at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; Do You Like Stuff? , Swiss Institute, New York; Fountains , D'Amelio Terras, New York; Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation, EFA Gallery, New York.
Art Reviews of Daniel Lefcourt 2006
| New York Times September 29, 2006 | Roberta Smith | "The works in Daniel Lefcourt’s second solo show at this gallery somehow survive looking as if they could have been made in 1967. At first they seem to hail from a time when Frank Stella’s shaped paintings, with their repeating bands of metallic color, had painters doing everything possible to avoid conventional paint on canvas and square corners. But ultimately Mr. Lefcourt’s efforts layer together enough ideas of their own to land in the present, where abstraction is neither a dead horse nor a religious calling...." |
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