(This is the final draft.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Zak Sm...
(This is the final draft.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Zak Smith
A Show About Nothing
October 7 through November 6, 2010
Opening reception: October 7, 6 to 8 pm
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Zak Smith. Unfortunately, he has once again refused to make art about anything, which does make it rather difficult to write a traditional press release.
We keep asking "Hey Zak, is this 20-foot drawing you made intended to
subtly undermine normative assumptions about the relationship of public
to private spaces in our increasingly de-centered psychosocial
environment?" and he keeps saying things like "No." Or we say, "Zak, are
these paintings of porn actresses that you know meant to offer a
critical counter-narrative to popular depictions of gender?" and he
says, "Nope. Maybe you could fill out the press release by using one of
those on-line postmodern text generators."
"We tried that, and got: 'Debord's critique of the structural paradigm
of discourse suggests that sexual identity has objective value. Several
deconstructivisms concerning nihilism may be revealed.' But Zak, our
attachment to outdated Judeo-Christian cultural assumptions demands that
we can't allow ourselves to accept pleasure unless it has meaning. Plus, y'know, we need a paragraph where we quote you saying something smart."
"How about: 'Meaning is the most interesting thing about a bad painting
and the least interesting thing about a good painting'? Can I go now? I
have a lot of work to do."
We do find some consolation, however, in the fact that the pictures are excruciatingly beautiful.
About The Artist
Zak Smith was born in 1976 and lives in works in Los
Angeles. His work is, somewhat surprisingly, included in several public
collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis; The Saatchi Gallery, London; and The Whitney
Museum of American Art, where his work was included in the 2004 Whitney
Biennial. His work has also been exhibited at The San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; The Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore; The National
Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; and The Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh. In addition to his recently published memoir We Did Porn, two books of his art work have been published--Pictures of Girls and Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow. This is his fifth show at Fredericks & Freiser.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Zak Smith
A Show About Nothing
October 7 through November 6, 2010
Opening reception: October 7, 6 to 8 pm
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Zak Smith. Unfortunately, he has once again refused to make art about anything, which does make it rather difficult to write a traditional press release.
We keep asking "Hey Zak, is this 20-foot drawing you made intended to
subtly undermine normative assumptions about the relationship of public
to private spaces in our increasingly de-centered psychosocial
environment?" and he keeps saying things like "No." Or we say, "Zak, are
these paintings of porn actresses that you know meant to offer a
critical counter-narrative to popular depictions of gender?" and he
says, "Nope. Maybe you could fill out the press release by using one of
those on-line postmodern text generators."
"We tried that, and got: 'Debord's critique of the structural paradigm
of discourse suggests that sexual identity has objective value. Several
deconstructivisms concerning nihilism may be revealed.' But Zak, our
attachment to outdated Judeo-Christian cultural assumptions demands that
we can't allow ourselves to accept pleasure unless it has meaning. Plus, y'know, we need a paragraph where we quote you saying something smart."
"How about: 'Meaning is the most interesting thing about a bad painting
and the least interesting thing about a good painting'? Can I go now? I
have a lot of work to do."
We do find some consolation, however, in the fact that the pictures are excruciatingly beautiful.
About The Artist
Zak Smith was born in 1976 and lives in works in Los
Angeles. His work is, somewhat surprisingly, included in several public
collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis; The Saatchi Gallery, London; and The Whitney
Museum of American Art, where his work was included in the 2004 Whitney
Biennial. His work has also been exhibited at The San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; The Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore; The National
Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; and The Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh. In addition to his recently published memoir We Did Porn, two books of his art work have been published--Pictures of Girls and Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow. This is his fifth show at Fredericks & Freiser.
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