April 30 - May 3, 2010
NEXT Chicago
Humble Arts Foundation
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Dunham Place Salon
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Jan 28 - Mar, 2010
Scapes
Opening Reception Feb 9, 6-8
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
212 228 1195
Jun 2 - Jul 28, 2007
Perfect Competition
Collective exhibition at Addison/Ripley Fine Art
Washington, DC
"... the work is seductive. Elisabeth Bernstein's C prints in light boxes are the time-lapsed record of a woman sleeping. They often capture a head positioned Janus-like, looking simultaneously to the past and the future."
Sept 8 - Oct 5, 2007
The Whole 'Dam Show, Invitation card
Personal exhibition of Shaun El C. Leonardo
at MARCH, 83 Vandam Street, New York, N.Y.
"It is the invitation card for the show itself, which features the artist posed against
a
burgundy background. He looks very GQ -- jacket open, tie slightly undone -- even as his posture -- reclining imperiously, hands casually flexed on the arms of his chair, legs open, gaze cocked towards the camera -- recall one of his own superhero self-portraits, Painting 4. Draped around him are his three MARCH dealers, Niki Cosgrove, Esther Kim and Kate Werble, in black cocktail dresses and heels.
Now it is true that this image is "about" themes of masculinity, playing off of a kind of Latin playboy image. Like his photo portraits as "El Conquistador" with their gaudy frames, there is a slightly mocking air. But this ironic distance from his theme is also the space where Leonardo can slip himself in, to assume the role at the center of the spotlight. Thus, the photo is at the same time an homage, in the mode of superartist
elder statesman Jeff Koons, to the power of raw charisma to propel art, and the way that play-acting at being a celebrity can deliver the goods in real life, creating its own reality. It is a portrait of Leonardo as both mensch and Ubermensch."