D
Group Show currated by Robert Nickas
MAIN GALLERY
11 MARCH - 8 APRIL 2000
Installation view
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Installation view
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Sandra Gering Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition including:
Henry Darger
Candy Darling
Verne Dawson
Lucky De Bellevue
Jimmy De Sana
David Deutsch
Jessica Diamond
Philip-Lorca Di Corcia
Nick Dine
Arthur Dove
Moira Dryer
Sam Durant
Jimmie Durham
and a portrait of Candy Darling by
Fred W. McDarrah
The works in the exhibition have been selected and installed by Bob Nickas.
"Lately, I've been thinking that life is short, and it isn't fair to play
around with other people's work and what it means. After fifteen years of
organizing shows for galleries and museums, I've taken a different view of
my job, such as it is.
I've always kept a list of the artists who have made things that interest
me, so it's a very long list and it continues to grow. The only way for
this list to have any clear order is for the names of the artists to be
arranged alphabetically, from A to Z. Looking over the list one day, I
realized that each section could be turned into a show of its own (or any
number of shows), and a theme with which to bring works by different
artists together would be unnecessary. The list is the organizing
principle in this case, the letter D and the randomness of alphabetical
order allows for things to bump up against each other unexpectedly. I
still do what I have always done, and as consciously as ever. And yet, the
ways in which the various works overlap at times seem inevitable as if
they were meant to end up together and remain surprising, even to me.
I am now happily of the opinion that shows don't have to be about anything
imposed upon the works of art that are in them; shows can simply be about
the works themselves."