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THE ARTSPACE GROUP SHOW
Friends, Family, and Foes
These limited editions focus on the fundamentals of life: friendship, family, a place to rest your head, and, importantly, something to kick against.
While art might be made in the quiet of the studio, its spark is often found in the company we keep and the spaces where we live. Our new online exhibition presents work by contemporary artists whose Artspace editions draw inspiration from friends, family, home, and the occasional foe.
FEATURED WORK
Camille Henrot - Mother Tongue, 2020/2021
'To me, parenting is a very interesting field or source for material because of its messiness,' says Henrot. 'There is tenderness, but there is also anger. There is attraction, but there is also repulsion. And if you pull on these strings, everything comes together: sexuality, love, death, and much more.'
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FEATURED WORK
Woody De Othello - our glass, 2023
Woody De Othello is known for sophisticated and witty investigations of banal subject matter spanning household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. His Artspace edition, our glass, is 'about community, or close friends, gathering. I was thinking a lot about summer approaching and the energy of having friends over. The flowers are blossoming, and glasses are on the table. Things are ready to get poured. So that shared space is in the energy of this print.'
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Dana Schutz - Adversaries, 2016
The Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor Dana Schutz constructs complex scenarios, often depicting figures in impossible or invented situations, to reveal the ambiguities of her subjects’ psychological states. The forms of these abstracted, distracted characters encroach or kick at the edges of her luminous canvases.
For Schutz, the painting is a world, a set of distinct spaces, relations, and landscapes. Try and dig a little into the specifics of who, what, how, and where, and you may get lost in that world, stretching for a narrative that might transport you somewhere you understand.
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Marilyn Minter - Big Red, 2022
Since the mid-1990s, Marilyn Minter’s process has begun with elaborate photoshoots, to create the source material for her paintings, which are mostly rendered in enamel on metal to reinforce a high-gloss finish. The original painting Big Red emerged from a photoshoot of fellow artist and friend Wangechi Mutu. It’s the first limited edition print ever to reference one of Minter’s iconic paintings.
As Minter recalls, 'I wasn’t thinking of Wangechi Mutu as the artist. She was a model who was fearless.'
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A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE SHOW
Artists throughout history have sought to immortalize the emotions stirred by those closest to them.
For Andy Warhol – who rarely spoke of his biological relatives – his immediate circle of friends and collaborators, the 'superstars' as he famously named them, became a chosen family. He documented them relentlessly: at his studio, the Factory; in his films; and across his public life in New York.
The British painter Francis Bacon held a starkly different view of intimacy, once remarking that he 'always thought of friendship as where two people really tear one another apart, and perhaps in that way learn something from one another.'
Even so, making art may be among life's loneliest pursuits, and a shoulder to lean, and occasionally cry on, is essential. As Picasso acknowledged when reflecting on the importance of personal connection: 'I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.'
Here, we present eight works by contemporary artists whose Artspace editions draw inspiration from home, friends, family, and yes, the occasional foe.
