C24 Gallery

C24 Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2011 and located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. A two-level 9,000-square-foot (840 m2) space focuses on presenting exhibitions from both local and international artists.[1] Voted one of the "500 Best Galleries Worldwide" in the 2013 Annual Gallery Issue of Modern Painters magazine,[2] C24 Gallery also attends yearly art fairs such as Contemporary Istanbul, PULSE Miami and VOLTA NY. C24 Gallery represents artists such as Ömer Ali Kazma, Robert Montgomery, Katja Loher, Irfan Onurmen and Grazia Toderi [3]

Notable Exhibitions

Double Crescent: Art From Istanbul And New Orleans

C24 Gallery's first exhibition, Double Crescent: Art From Istanbul And New Orleans, was curated by Dan Cameron, one-time director of the Istanbul Biennial and former senior curator of the New Museum. According to Cameron, the show's goal was to “examine the art of two great port cities that have channeled European culture into unexpected colors and shapes.” [4] The show featured the work of New Orleans art collective Generic Art Solutions and Turkish artists Hale Tenger and Ali Kazma.

Campaign

In January 2012 C24 Gallery presented their group show Campaign curated by Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum curator and former P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / Museum of Modern Art curator Amy Smith-Stewart. Featuring the work of 27 artists including Jen DeNike, Kate Gilmore, K8 Hardy, Adam Helms, Aleksandra Mir, and Hank Willis Thomas, the exhibition not only showed how women's bodies have been distorted and exploited for commercial purposes but also used repurposed imagery from fashion, advertising, entertainment and tabloid culture to create alternative meanings, thereby revealing the hidden messages latent beneath digitally altered beings.[5] In Artforum critic Johanna Fateman highlighted Kathe Burkhart's Liz Taylor paintings as "a perverse homage to misogynist projection. In Beaver: From the Liz Taylor Series, a deck of strip-poker playing cards silhouette the flatly painted Hollywood icon, and a shaggy length of fake fur, affixed as Taylor’s stole, underscores the obscenity of the red text that bisects the canvas like a protest sign: BEAVER."[6]

Extravagant Features

On view from May 7 to June 22, 2013 was Extravagant Features a group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple which featured work from a lineup of artists that included Rob Wynne, Alfred Leslie, Rohan Wealleans, Jane Corrigan, Jane Kaplowitz and Magic Flying Carpets of The Berber Kingdom of Morocco. Known for her talent for recognizing artists at various stages of their careers, Dalrymple used her C24 Gallery group show to feature work that expressed an exaggerated depiction of the human figure.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Boucher, Brian. "Young Turks Take Chelsea". Art In America. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ "500 Best Galleries Worldwide". Modern Painters. August 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.c24gallery.com/artists/
  4. ↑ "New Gallery Will Bring Lesser Known Global Art to Chelsea". New York Observer. July 12, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Smith-Stewart, Amy (2012). Facelift. C24 Gallery. pp. 20–21.
  6. ↑ Fateman, Johanna (January 27, 2012). "Critic's Picks". Artforum.
  7. ↑ Kaznanjian, Dodie (April 23, 2013). "Sights of Spring: A Preview of May’s Must-See Art in New York City". Vogue.

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