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Email PageSix Feet Under
July 13, 2006- August 26, 2006
Jeremy Lovitt, Isaac Sprachman, Ross Knight, Sarah Moylan, Lutz Bacher, Q Liu, Elisabeth Py, Ryan Humphrey, Duke Riley
White Box
525 W 26th St |  Lutz Bacher Scenes from the Ring |
 Duke Riley Paul Piers for Chanel |
WHITE BOX is pleased to announce Six Feet Under, a theme-driven annual summer series featuring six proposals by six curators. As in previous years, the purpose of the series is to offer each curator and artist a weeklong opportunity to tackle White Box’s unique architecture and its six feet below ground exhibition space. The exhibitions are viewed through White Box’s sidewalk-level large window, lobby and in [VideoBox], a division of White Box located in an adjacent outdoor window.
This last and final edition brings to an end the six-year long series with a topic that specifically addresses the impact and scope of the Chelsea Arts District real estate development. Six young and emerging curators are invited to select six galleries, each of which will then suggest an artist to work with. The artists will present and install a work that reflects upon the realities and relationships of Chelsea’s artists’ studios and galleries versus the rampant real estate speculation that has resulted in forever-escalating costs affecting the entire arts industry. Perhaps the real question is whether or not there is complicity between all the forces at play and why some artists and galleries end up losing and others win, which in turn will affect, in unknown ways, the community we have forged.
13-19 July Jeremy Lovitt, Isaac Sprachman curated by Jason Goodman
20-26 July Ross Knight, Sarah Moylan curated by Noel Heberling
27 July - 2 August Lutz Bacher curated by Jarrett Gregory
3-9 August Q Liu, Elisabeth Py curated by Natasha Becker
10-16 August Ryan Humphrey curated by Daria Brit Shapiro
For his play on the theme of Six Feet Under, Ryan Humphrey will use WHITE BOX as an indoor freestyle BMX facility where he will regress to his creative years before becoming a fine artist. He will assault the architecture with his bicycle, try new maneuvers, mark up the walls and leave skid marks on the floors thus signaling the demise of the clean white gallery space and the economic system that fuels it. Bring on the death of capital. Bring on Mad Max. Bring on the demise of western civilization and say goodbye to your precious art objects.
17-26 August Duke Riley presents Paul Piers for Chanel curated by Juan Puntes and Judith Souriau
Duke Riley Presents Paul Piers for Chanel is a multi-media installation that transforms WHITE BOX’s exhibition space into an upscale fashion flagship store featuring clothes designed by the fictitious fashion mogul Paul Piers. Piers is on the forefront of high-end super-boutiques threatening to overtake prime Chelsea art spaces, a persistent trend that ultimately pushes galleries and non-profits such as WHITE BOX out of the real estate market. Derived from the questionable circumstances under which a warehouse full of vintage clothing burned down, the “burnt look” spins a poignant and humorous commentary on the art and fashion worlds. This hip new look for Pier’s latest collection will be shown live at WHITE BOX to live music.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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