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Email PageGwenn Thomas Revisits Jack Smith
June 22, 2006- July 28, 2006
Gwenn Thomas
Yvon Lambert Gallery
550 W 21st StYvon Lambert New York is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Gwenn Thomas. Gwenn Thomas Revisits Jack Smith is a photographic narrative organized as a cinematic sequence of her black and white images starring the legendary performance artist and filmmaker Jack Smith. Taken more than 30 years ago on the bosky grounds of the Cologne Zoo during the Kölner Kunstverein’s Projekt 74, these interpretive, unmediated views show a costumed Smith in performance, and reveal the artist in a hilarious yet serious project critical of the implications of national boundaries, landlords, and the concept of rent. The exhibition will be on view from June 22 through July 29, 2006. Yvon Lambert New York is located at 564 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-6PM.
In December of 1974, storyboarded photographs selected from Thomas’ collaboration with Jack Smith appeared as a cover story, titled Fear Ritual of Shark Museum, for the avant-garde magazine Avalanche. The large-format magazine featured a double-page spread laid out in fumetti, and included cartoon balloons with texts written and spoken by Smith in the construction of his performance. Among a cast of unsuspecting passers-by, free-ranging camels and a caged eagle, the late Berlin and New York-based art impresario Hildegarde Lutze appears in cameo as Smith’s wardrobe assistant. Among the many photographs presented at Yvon Lambert New York are images never previously printed in exhibition format. The images appear in the context of Smith’s work in other mediums, including such material as Ken Jacobs’ Blonde Cobra, based on unfinished films by Bob Fleischner and starring Jack Smith, and Tony Conrad’s audio of Jack Smith in Les Evening Gowns Damnées.
Innovative filmmaker, artist and performer, Jack Smith embodied the essence of the New York avant-garde of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Dissolving the boundaries that separate art and life, Smith influenced a generation of artists from Andy Warhol and Robert Wilson to Mike Kelley, among others.
Gwenn Thomas’ work is included in numerous collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Charles Saatchi, London, England; São Schlumberger, Paris, France; CAM, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Born in Rhode Island, she lives and works in New York.
Reviews of Gwenn Thomas Revisits Jack Smith
| The New Yorker July 17, 2006 | unknown | "...It’s all good freaky fun, as is Ken Jacobs’s 1963 film “Blonde Cobra,” which stitches together fragments of Smith’s performances...." |
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