7-9 EXHIBITION: WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

EXHIBITION: WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

Featuring collaborative pieces by:

Antistrot Elena Monzo
Robert Brinker Joseph Scheer
Ludovica Gioscia Karen Tang
Pamela Joseph Robert Brinker
Christina McPhee Benjamin Fink
Christa Parravani Helen Garber
Clement Price-Thomas Duston Spear
Roger Ricco Luke Gilvey
Lucien Samaha John Movius

DATES: July 9--August 3, 2007
RECEPTION: Monday, July 9, 6 - 8pm


Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to present a curatorial experiment.

So there's this text by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin called the Third Mind. It's about the cut-up, where words or even segments of film can be randomized and create new forms that make just as much sense as the original, sometimes even becoming prophetic. This show isn't really about that, but rather what happens when two artists try to stay true to their own practices while collaborating on a single piece. We asked our gallery artists, as well as some new faces, to choose a partner and make a piece for our summer show. They could do anything they wanted. No rules.

At the moment of this press release, we've only seen a few results. Ludovica Gioscia applied her custom silkscreened wallpaper skills to a pair of sculptor Karen Tang's oversized Ray-Ban sunglasses to make the best summer sculpture ever. Robert Brinker did one of his signature cut out patterns over a fancy moth photo by Joseph Scheer and another with a comic collage by Pamela Joseph. And then there are drawings that Antistrot did with Elena Monzo. In case you don't know, Antistrot is already a collective, a group of kids from Rotterdam that work together on stuff. They're doing a big mural at 3rd Ward. (See below.) Monzo's addition is great in that it adds a bit of femininity to the otherwise macho blood-and-guts subject matter. Very nice.

As for the other pieces, I guess we'll see those when they come in. Duston Spear and Clement-Price-Thomas supposedly have something mechanical with the working title, "Tiffany Blood." Some participants have even refused to give even us a sneak preview. We're actually a little scared, but scared like a rollercoaster. Fun scared. Not scarey scared.

SARA TECCHIA ROMA NEW YORK is located at 529 West 20th Street, between Tenth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue. The gallery is on the second floor. Summer hours are Monday through Friday, 11am to 6pm or by appointment. For more information, contact 212-741-2900, or visit www.saratecchia.com

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