Ready Made Exhibit at the BRANNER SPANGENBERG GALLERY
Let us travel back in time to 1917, one hundred years ago. Our destination: New York City, already en route to being the perfect fusion of crude, rude, American can-do capitalism and European savoir-faire. Electric lights, automobiles, skyscrapers all compete for novelty and excitement in the public mind, while the atavistic drumbeat of an overseas war quickens the pulse. New York is becoming the prototypical modern city, it is in the act of replacing the old world as the pre-eminent face of Modernity, in all of its native vitality and vulgarity. The Jazz Age beckons, a few short years hence.
New York in 1917 is also home to one of the more curious off-shoots of one of the most curious of art movements, to whit, New York Dada, so much more sophisticated and humorous than its European counterparts. This has everything to do with the sophisticated and humorous figure at its epicenter, Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp, formerly a minor Cubist who caused a splash at the 1913 Armory Show by exhibiting, “Nude Descending a Staircase,” now offers for our consideration “Fountain,” a monumentally enigmatic object; decades in the future, “Fountain” will begin to appear on lists as the most influential artwork of the 20th Century. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of “Fountain,” the Branner Spangenberg Gallery's current show is Found Object/Readymade.
I'm thrilled that the Branner Spangenberg Gallery continues to support me as an artist and to curate such inspirational shows. I have a piece in this show that's up through August 6, 2017. If you are on the Peninsula, please check it out! Here's to Marcel Duchamp for turning the art world upside down!
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