 The Orange and Blue Feelings, 2003 DVD Still, two-screen DVD projection, approx. 55 min. Glenn Ligon Going There D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present "Going There", our second solo exhibition with New York artist Glenn Ligon. The exhibition will contain new work: his first video, a two-screen projection; new sculptures; a childhood drawing now being conserved; and a series of prints based on secondary school teacher evaluations. These works resonate with the themes of subjectivity that Ligon has explored in his black-and-white text paintings and in Coloring, the recent body of work focused on Afrocentric coloring books. Yet the works are also a departure, as Ligon devises new formal and conceptual methods to query familiar issues. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an hour-long video depicting several actual therapy sessions in which the artist discusses a painting from the Coloring series that was lost in transit to a museum. Over a soundtrack of the artist and his therapist talking, one screen explores the immediate environment of the session while the other portrays a succession of images that seem to rise up from the artist's subconscious. Ligon explores how the presentation of self is altered by selective recollection, the dialogue between patient and therapist, and through recording it all on tape. In other artworks, Ligon delves into associations between art making and childhood. Two papier-mâché sculptures of ocean liners mimic an art class project from the artist's childhood. A drawing of a jade plant made by the artist at age 11 is presented in the first stages of its ongoing conservation, along with the conservator's notes. The new work also includes a print series of hand-made facsimilies of Ligon's fifth, sixth, and seventh grade academic evaluations. The works in this exhibition consider various moments in the artist's life, yet are unified by their integrated inquiry into childhood recollections, the selectivity of memory, and artistic and social identity. November 8 - December 23, 2003 Hours: Tue-Sat 10am - 6pm D'Amelio Terras Gallery 525 West 22nd Street USA-New York, NY www.damelioterras.com |
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