Past Gallery Exhibitions
July 10th - August 8th, 2010
Steven Klein: Stag Film
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is very pleased to announce a forthcoming show at our East Hampton location, Steven Klein: Stag Film. The show will open July 10th with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 pm at 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, and run through August 8th 2010. Focussing on the subject of horse studding, Klein’s photographic series, in sober black and white, is a powerful example of the ability of photography to capture through a process of speed, light, and emulsion, the drama and energy of physical motion, and distill it into singular, static imagery. The title “Stag Film” is simple and succinct in describing the subject matter, yet owns other more profane cultural connotations. These arresting images pay homage to the photographer’s art of simultaneously reporting and suggesting. More Details
May 29th to June 27th, 2010
Peter Dayton: The Beginning of an Era
On view at 36 Newtown Lane, East Hampton: "Yea it's 1977 again everybodys on the dole no future....THATS WHY WE ARE SO HAPPY !" Please join us for our inaugural seasonal show in East Hampton, featuring new works by punk rocker turned artist Peter Dayton. As the former frontman for the 1970s rock outfit La Peste, Dayton had a front row seat from which to observe the collision of political frustrations, cultural nihilism, and lip curling sneer that fueled the emergence of the punk ideology. More Details
May 12th - June 12th, 2010
Oedipal Indescretions, Edible Obsessions: Early Work of Toshio Saeki
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is very happy to announce our upcoming exhibition – Oedipal Indescretions, Edible Obsessions: Early Work of Toshio Saeki. Featuring original drawings made for print by the “godfather of Japanese erotica”, this exhibition showcases works by Saeki dating from the late 70s. The show will open Wednesday May 12th with a reception from 6 to 8pm, and run through June 12th. More Details
April 8th - May 8th, 2010.
Kim Gordon: The Noise Paintings
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is very pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Kim Gordon: The Noise Paintings. The show will open with a reception on April 8th and run through May 8th, 2010. Featuring a series of works on canvas and on paper, the show presents Gordon’s recent explorations using paint, lyrics, and personal catch phrases to create a collision of the verbal and the visual, and the discovery of something quite other. In partnership with Ecstatic Peace Library, JMc & GHB Editions will introduce a special edition of a new artist's unbound, signed and numbered portfolio, Kim Gordon, The Noise Paintings. Drawn from a full edition of just 200, the special edition will comprise 26 lettered copies enclosed in a custom cloth box with an original painting and recording laid in. More Details
March 4th - April 3rd, 2010
Ruth Ford, Model and Muse: A Life in Photographs
Drawn from the personal collection of Ruth Ford this exhibition features photographs, artworks and archival materials which document an extraordinary life of work and friendship amongst the cultural elite of the 1930s through the 1980s. An intimate gathering of personal pieces that resonate with the creativity of the cultural avant-garde of their day. More Details
Dec. 10th, 2009 - Jan. 23rd, 2010 CURRENT Extended through Feb. 27th.
Mats Gustafson: Swan
An exhibition of new and recent works in pastel, with a newly designed wall installation courtesy of Maharam Digital Projects. Gustafson's meditational images take on new form in these sensitive renderings of swans on water, and hushed landscapes evaporating in cool, misted pastels. More Details
November 4th to December 5th, 2009.
David Levinthal, Bad Barbie: Vintage Photographs
A sequence of photographs, all made in black and white, dating from 1972 which represents Levinthal’s first explorations with the use of toys in making his art. Following the liberal-leaning social upheavals of the 1960s, the young artist was responding to a contemporary atmosphere of new sexual license enjoyed by youthful America. His chosen subjects, Mattel's Barbie doll and her "boyfriend" Ken, and the popular boy's "action figure" G.I. Joe, are depicted in scenes of sexual courtship and activity. This Barbie knows what she likes, and likes what she knows. More Details
Sept. 15th - Oct. 10th, 2009
Josephine Meckseper.
A series of vitrine installations. In her photography, videos, and object-based installations Meckseper engages with the manipulation and attendant imbalance of power created through the promotion of such culturally sanctioned vices as greed, excess, and corruption. Recurrent images of political activism—whether photographs of demonstrations or newspaper cuttings—are set against sparkling consumer goods and advertising motifs. Rather than aestheticizing, and thus glorifying, the seductive nature of these themes, Meckseper instead “challenges ingrained perspectives” with a conceptual approach that seeks out ways of articulating and interacting with the world, while purposefully degrading and devaluing the visual idiom associated with contemporary consumer culture. Recently, Meckseper has pursued the capitalist-critique method, with subject areas agitating around the war in Iraq and the oil industry, with their inherent economic and socio-political implications, in particular those concerning the automobile industry. More Details
July 16th to August 15th, 2009 Extended through August 22nd.
Neke Carson: Portraits from the Closet
New works. A series of photographs Carson has taken inside the clothes closets of a circle of friends. The camera is placed on the closet floor, automatically triggered once the closet door has been shut, shooting upward. The resulting images present a perplexing angle of view and a picture that is not immediately readable. The viewer is reminded of something resembling submarine plant life, geological mineral strata, gaseous astronomical phenomena. Looming from the closeted darkness these swirling eruptions of color and shape, so surprising in form, seem in turn surprised in some clandestine nocturnal exchange. More Details
June 27th to August 2nd, '09 at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton NY.
Bill Jacobson: figure, water, land. 1989 - 2009
This selection of color and black-and-white photographs dating from the end of the 1980s to the present reflects Jacobson’s enduring attachment to the theme of temporality in human experience. Showing at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton NY 11937. Tel. 631-324 5511. More Details
May 14th - June 20th, 2009
Duncan Hannah, World of Women: Paintings & Works on Paper
An exhibition of paintings, drawings and other works on paper detailing the artist's approach to the female form and presence in a world redolent of an idealized past, an obsessively nostalgic imagination. Ongoing collage works dating from the early '80s present Hannah's more graphically invested explorations using book and magazine clippings, photographs and printed ephemera that add to a repertoire forever balancing perilously between the realms of objective formality and personal intimacy. More Details
April 2nd - May 2nd 2009
What I've Been Hoarding; An Accumulation of Rock and Literary Decadence: 1965 - 85
Spanning three decades this show presents an unruly collection of posters, drawings, photographs, flyers, magazines and other printed ephemera as an insight into visual innovation amongst the cultural fringe during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. More Details
January 10th - February 21st, 2009. Extended through February 28th.
Stephen Sprouse: Drawings 1970s - 1980s
Drawn from an archive of more than 1500 separate pieces, including 600 original drawings, the featured work on show spans the decades of the 70’s and 80’s. Presented is a wide array of working drawings and notes executed in marker, pen, pencil and Xerox, black-and-white and color - some hand colored in gouache and watercolor. Sample fabric books and strategic worksheets in which Sprouse collaged his signature color palettes will be on view. This show offers a rare opportunity to observe intimately the late designer's process through his sketches, notes and inspirational references. More Details
Dec. 3rd 2008 to Jan. 2nd 2009
American Dreamers: Gatsby, Godfather and Gonzo.
An exhibition of archival materials around the theme of literary characters in ruthless and inevitably tragic pursuit of the American Dream. Featuring extraordinary documents, ephemera and objects from the archives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mario Puzo, and Hunter S. Thompson. More Details
Oct.18th to Nov. 29th, 2008 at 36 Newtown Lane, East Hampton NY. Extended through Jan. 2nd 2009
Mike Solomon. Meteorological Watercolors
An exhibition of Solomon's coastline seascapes of the last eight years. Sensitively observed weather watercolors capturing the eternal dialogue in light between sea and sky. The eye of a surfer, the soul of a poet. Showing at John McWhinnie & GHB, 36 Newtown Lane, East Hampton NY 11937. More Details
Oct. 21st - Nov. 22nd 2008
Brigid Berlin; Needlepoint
An exhibition featuring needlepoint works from the last ten years, many pieces from Berlin's Breaking News series. Crude news-hawking text and photo spreads are rendered into meticulously crafted needleworks, which in turn front decorative household cushions, producing peculiar hybrids of the public and the private. Berlin has lost none of her critical edge since her engagement in the sixties with new, challenging and always explorative media that pose social and aesthetic questions which defy easy answers. More Details
September 16th to October 12th 2008
Picture Perfect; Images and Shapes in Seventies & Eighties Vinyl
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is very pleased to announce their new show, Picture Perfect; Images and Shapes in Seventies and Eighties Vinyl. Culled from the collections of George Meredith the exhibition will feature a wide selection of color, illustrated, and shaped vinyl records from the era when vinyl ruled the world of music record production and marketing. The show will open with a reception on Tuesday September 16th between 6 and 8 p.m., and run through October 12th 2008. More Details
July 17th - August 14th, 2008
Walter Steding. King of the Poppies; Paintings and Drawings
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Walter Steding, King of the Poppies; Paintings and Drawings. A gallery of imps, celebrities, children, roses and pooches is at hand. Works of the last fifteen years in acrylic, chalk and pencil document the artist's otherworldly vision of subjects mundane and fantastical, or fantastically mundane if you prefer. More Details
June 10th - July 3rd 2008.
Purple Anthology; Art Prose Fashion Music Architecture Sex
Celebrating 15 years of Purple Magazine and the publication of Rizzoli's Purple Anthology, the gallery will feature photographic works by Juergen Teller, Richard Kern, Jack Pierson, Terry Richardson, and Richard Prince, as well as photospreads extracted from back issues of the influential art and fashion periodical. More Details
May 24th 2008 - June 25th 2008.
David Levinthal, A Wild Romance: Selected Works from the Eighties.
On show at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Inc., 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY, with an artist's reception May 24th, 6 - 8 pm. A Wild Romance is an exhibition of vintage photographs from two groundbreaking series that Levinthal made in the 1980s: Modern Romance (1983–1985); and The Wild West (1986-88). More Details
May 1st 2008 to June 4th 2008
Psychopts; Richard Hell, Christopher Wool
A new project springing from a collaboration between Richard Hell and Christopher Wool. Hell, a writer and avid reader, has for some time been assembling two-word groupings drawn from personal reading experience. Using a selection of these pairs he and Wool worked together making visual combinations of the word couples. They settled on 57 separate designs from which they developed six unique drawings in various media on paper, and nine silkscreen prints which will be published in a portfolio. Deploying the tools of the ordered, rational world, the artists call on the irrational, less ego driven senses to engage with these works. More Details
March 18 2008 to April 26 2008.
David Levinthal: Hitler Moves East. Vintage Photographs.
This exhibition, drawn from Levinthal’s project of 1977- a joint production with Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame - will feature new installation work, vintage photographs, and the original publisher's book macquette. In the form of installation pieces, photographs, and a publication, Hitler Moves East was initially produced as a college project while the duo were in art school at Yale. For Levinthal, then 28 years old, the work heralded the beginning of a distinctive formal and stylistic approach to photography. More Details
November 29, 2007 to January 4, 2008. Extended through February 2, 2008.
Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 - Vintage Prints and Printing Notes
Taken from the photographer's celebrated book of 1979, Ward 81, this show presents a selection of 10 vintage prints, plus a large selection of never published or exhibited work presented on original printer’s index cards with handwritten printing instructions. The book sent shockwaves through US societal attitudes toward the mentally ill, their care and rehabilitation, and served to broaden the very definition of documentary as it applied to the photographic process. In this exhibition viewers are given a unique opportunity to go further with Mark’s Ward 81, to delve deeper into her process of insightful recording and revelation. More than fifty additional images not included in the original publication will be on show, offering an extended look into the world of the ward’s residents, and a closer contact with the shutter genius of the photographer. More Details
September 14 to October 13 2007. Extended until Nov. 17th.
Claude Pelieu/Mary Beach 2001
Collage works by Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach. This show features relatively late works by both artists, all made in the course of 2001, and is notable, given the recent anniversary, for the way in which the events of September 11 2001 register in the carefully planned and sophisticated collage works of Claude Pelieu. More Details
July 20th to August 16th
Summer Show
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to present its Summer Show, comprising selections from the current collection. More Details
August 4th to September 10, 2007
Printed Matters. New Work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce their latest exhibition of new works by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Printed Matters, curated by Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner. Taken from the contents of diCorcia’s 2003 book project, A Storybook Life, the works in this show were not made by any overt action on the part of the photographer, but came about accidentally as part of the printing process for the book. More Details
June 30 to July 31, 2007
Will Cotton Drawings
Drawings in oil and varnish on paper from 2007 . On show at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works on paper by Will Cotton. These images, all produced this year, add to an expanding body of work detailing Cotton’s primary aesthetic obsession - the representation of pleasure. More Details
April 12 to May 12, 2007
c/o The Velvet Underground New York, NY
An exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the release of The Velvet Underground and Nico. The album, perhaps the most famous debut by any band in the history of rock and roll, continues to resonate today with collectors, indie-rockers, aficionados, critics and the culture at large. Its enormous presence, however, has yet to be fully examined in an exhibition. This show attempts to correct that oversight, offering the most comprehensive collection of Velvet Underground memorabilia and artifacts to be seen in New York City. The exhibition tells the story of the album and the Velvet Underground through the historical artifacts of the period. More Details
February 21 to March 24, 2007
Peter Dayton Black Boards, White Chicks
Black Boards, White Chicks consists of two series of works poised in an uneasy standoff. The black boards are from Dayton's surfboard series, rectangular wood panels decorated with vertical stripes of color, meticulously crafted, lacquered and raised to a high gloss sheen. The surfboards draw equally upon the high-art tradition of post-painterly abstraction once championed by the cultural eminence Clement Greenburg, as they do upon the artisanal ethos of a much lower end of the culture, that of the surf bum painstakingly shaping a board in his workshop. More Details
