Exhibition October 24, 2015 - January 2, 2016 Opening reception October 24, 2-5pm
Catharine Clark Gallery presents Imaginary Monuments, a solo exhibition of new work by Sandow Birk. On view October 24, 2015 - January 2, 2016, the exhibit features several new drawings and one new direct gravure print in Birk's on-going Imaginary Monuments series, in which the artist combines foundational and iconic texts with fantastical and imagined architecture in large scale works on paper. Birk will be present for the exhibition opening on Saturday, October 24, from 2-5 pm.
Since debuting the series in 2007 with the drawing Monument to the Constitution of the United States, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birk has created numerous drawings and three large scale gravures as part of this project over the last eight years. Subjects of his latest drawings tend towards broader themes, incorporating the text of multiple seminal documents in one work in an effort to portray the complex history behind topics germane to current events and consciousness. True to form, Birk unabashedly portrays controversy. In Proposal for a Monument to the Prison Industrial Complex (2015), and Proposal for a Monument to the NYPD (2015), Birk addresses head-on the firestorm of current events and polarized opinions concerning the use of force, law enforcement, and criminal legislation in the United States. Birk takes a lighter tone with work created in the past year: Proposal for a Monument to the Free Sea (2015), Monument to the National Parks (2015), and Proposal for a Monument to World Football (2015), laud the historical efforts that crafted enduring access to and preservation of these internationally beloved treasures and shared experiences.
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