Some Exhaust

Opening 13 August 2004, 6-8 PM

August 13 - September 25, 2004
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Some Exhaust
Organized by Matthew Lusk

Caroline Allison. Bryan Crockett, Candy Sue Ellison, John Gerrard, Adam Helms, Lara Kohl, Michael Lachowski, Julian LaVerdiere, Matthew Lusk, Vincent Mazeau, Darren Newton, Rachel Owens, Ester Partegas, Lucy Raven, the relay project, Kristine Robinson, Michael Peter Smith, Aaron Wexler, Bob Wysocki, Aaron Young, and others

13 August – 25 September 2004
Opening reception Friday, 13 August, 6-8 pm

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce the opening of Some Exhaust, a project conceived and organized by Matthew Lusk. This exhibition will include works by more than a dozen artists, each creating work specifically for this project.

For Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin will house a large garage structure that references both the building's facade and its history as a truck depository. This construction will reflect its placement within the gallery's Rem Koolhaas/OMA design by incorporating the sloping ceilings and asymmetrical elements that surround it. The architectural style used to transform the automotive space into a gallery space will be used in the gallery's transformation back into a garage.

Works by Bryan Crockett, Julian LaVerdiere, and others will be installed in and around the garage and will address the realm of garage spaces and the range of activities and objects created in them. From the urban and light industrial spaces of New York to the suburban and domestic carports across the country, these zones of production cough up a wealth of human endeavors. With installations drawing on influences from Disney (Helms), Ford (Ellison), common labor (Smith), meth labs (Newton), American travel (Wysocki), carbon-monoxide (Allison), and cold storage (Kohl), Some Exhaust will account for an enormous and ambivalent spectrum of productivity and destruction.

The exhibition will be accompanied by essays from Elizabeth Thomas, the assistant curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and by Nato Thompson, the assistant curator at Mass MoCA.


For more information contact us at info@lehmannmaupin.com or 212 255 2923.

Press

• Flash Art Download PDF ()
• New York Times
• Village Voice
• Time Out New York
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Exhibition Works

MICHAEL LACHOWSKI Spray Paint, 1980 Acrylic and pastel on paper


AARON YOUNG Jersey Girls, 2002 DVD 8 minute loop LM7973


BOB WYSOCKI Summer of '75 2004 cold rolled steel, polyethylene, aluminum, polycarbonate resin, silicone, electro-statically applied polyester resin, vinyl 43 x 84 x 30 inches 109.2 x 213.4 x 76.2 cm Edition of 3 LM7972


Site of the Bergenfield Four, March 11, 1987 L.K. and C.H, March 17, 1987 Bergenfield, NJ 2004 C-print 8.5 x 8.5 inches (paper)


ADAM HELMS NFA Sniper's Nest Replica, 2004 mixed media LM8011


MATTHEW LUSK Barricade, 2004 43 salvaged tires, acrylic, distilled water, silk flowers, knives dimensions variable LM7980


VINCENT MAZEAU Dead Center, 2004 Pine, Styrofoam, eurethane, oil stain 68 x 34 x 88 inches 172.7 x 86.4 x 223.5 cm LM7982


JOHN GERRARD Engine Room, 2004 Flatscreen monitor, hard drive, Corian, digital object, shelf LM8000


ESTER PARTEGAS Meteorites, 2004 wood, cement, fiberglass, resin 144 x 144 x 120 inches (approx) 365.8 x 365.8 x 304.8 cm Edition of 3 LM7988


MICHAEL PETER SMITH Hot Dog Vendor Carts, 2004 Styrene, ABS, Sintra, Cyanoacrylate, wooden wheels 8 x 5.5 x 9 inches each 20.3 x 14 x 22.9 cm LM7992


AARON WEXLER Rearden Metal Toybox, 2004 acrylic on paper on plywood 72 x 84 inches 35.6 x 40.6 cm LM7993


RACHEL OWENS The Sleepers, 2004 cardboard and mixed media LM7987


JULIAN LAVERDIERE DUNG BEETLE: Column Razer, 2004 mixed media 72 x 96 x 96 inches 182.9 x 243.8 x 243.8 cm LM7979


BRYAN CROCKETT You Will Never Know, 2004 nylon, resin dimensions variable Edition of 3 LM7975