The Dairy Art Centre is pleased to present ‘Island’, an exhibition bringing together the works of over forty established and emerging international contemporary artists. It is constructed as the unfolding chapters of a novel based on Aldous Huxley’s Island of 1962, utopian story and counterpart to the Brave New World written thirty years earlier.
Inspired by some of the themes of the novel, the exhibition presents a selection of works from the collection of Dairy Art Centre founders, Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm, whilst also including loans from the Americas, Asia and Europe, and a dozen new commissions and first-time releases.
New commissions include Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury’s giant mushrooms, a clock work by John Armleder, a new wall painting by U.S. artist Ann Craven, ambiguous material by the Order of the Third Bird, traces of evanescent wall mural by Tom Benson, new works by Ursula Mayer, and Franck Leibovici & Diemo Schwarz.
Stepping into the exhibition the visitor is invited to retrace the steps of Bloomsbury-born Island protagonist Will Farnaby, observer, actor and catalyst, as imagined by the organizers of the exhibition, or to simply meander among singular artistic proposals. 'Island celebrates the polyphonic and singular voices of the participating artists and their works, inviting the exhibition's visitors to join in a shared experience of the here and now.
Charlie Ahearn (1951); John Ahearn (1951); Chantal Akerman (1950 - 2015); Sam Anderson (1982); Richard Artschwager (1923 - 2013); Robert Ashley (1930 - 2014); Charles Atlas (1949); Lutz Bacher (1943 - 2019); Fia Backström (1970); Alvin Baltrop (1948 - 2004); Rina Banerjee (1963); Morgan Bassichis (1983); Kevin Beasley (1985); Gina Beavers (1974); Gelsey Bell (1982); Michael Bell-Smith (1978); Sadie Benning (1973); Huma Bhabha (1962); Dara Birnbaum (1946); [Mel Bochner *1940 & Robert Moskowitz *1935] Bochner & Moskowitz; Lizzie Borden (1950); Robert Bordo (1949); Gregg Bordowitz (1964); Liene Bosquê (1980); Amy Brener (1982); Ben Thorp Brown (1983); Rudy Burckhardt (1914 - 1999); Harry Burke (1990); Scott Burton (1939 - 1989); Abigail Child (1948); Susan Cianciolo (1969); Shirley Clarke (1919 - 1997); Todd Colby (1962); Roy Colmer (1935 - 2014); Sara Cwynar (1985); Mira Dancy (1979); Jaime Davidovich (1936 - 2016); Jimmy De Sana (1949 - 1990); Vivienne Dick (1950); Andrew Durbin (1989); Diego Echeverría (1946); Terry Fox (1958 - 1981); Su Friedrich (1954); Eckhaus Latta (2011); Mary Beth Edelson (1933 - 2021); Gregory Edwards (1981); Joy Episalla (1960); Loretta Fahrenholz (1981); Ben Fama (1982); fierce pussy (1991 - 1995); John Finneran (1979); Henry Flynt (1940); Jeffrey Gibson (1972); John Giorno (1936 - 2019); Ignacio González-Lang (1975); William Greaves (1926 - 2014); Jonah Groeneboer (1978); Red Grooms (1937); David Grubbs (1967); David Hammons (1943); Fanny Howe (1940); Katherine Hubbard (1981); Peter B. Hutton (1944 - 2016); Elizabeth Jaeger (1988); Kenneth Jacobs (1933); Paolo Javier (1974); Joan Jonas (1936); Jamian Juliano-Villani (1987); Angela Keefer (1977); Devin Kenny (1987); Eli Keszler (1983); Christine Sun Kim (1980); KIOSK (2005); Manfred Kirchheimer (1931); Ajay Kurian (1984); Robert Kushner (1949); M. Lamar (1984); Louise Lawler (1947); Deana Lawson (1979); Sophia Le Fraga (1990); Barry Le Va (1941 - 2021); Okkyung Lee (1975); Simone Leigh (1968); [Zoé Léonard *1961 & Nancy Brooks Brody *1962] Léonard & Brody; Glenn Ligon (1960); Tan Lin (1957); Eric Mack (1987); Tony Matelli (1971); Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978); Lionel Maunz (1976); Park McArthur (1984); Adam McEwen (1965); Marie Menken (1909 - 1970); Wardell Milan (1977); Ieva Misevičiūtė (1982); [Rashaun Mitchell *1978 & Silas Riener *1983] Mitchell & Riener; Yoshiaki Mochizuki (1961); Donald Moffett (1955); James Nares (1953); Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts - New York (2011); Raul DeNieves (1983); [Véréna Paravel `1971 & J.P. Sniadecki *1979] Paravel & Sniadecki; Morgan Parker (1987); Rebecca Patek (1983); Sondra Perry (1986); Pharmakon (1990); Howardena Pindell (1943); Seth Price (1973); Yvonne Rainer (1934); Will Rawls (1978); Nick Relph (1979); Joyce Robins (1944); Ugo Rondinone (1964); Cameron Rowland (1988); Jen Rosenblit (1983); Bunny Rogers (1990); Peter Saul (1934); Collier Schorr (1963); Nancy Shaver (1946); Judith Shea (1948); Gedi Sibony (1973); Hayley Silverman (1986); Lorna Simpson (1960); Rosalind Fox Solomon (1930); Jack Smith (1932 - 1989); Kiki Smith (1954); Greg Parma Smith (1983); Slow and Steady Wins the Race (2001); Nelson Sullivan (1948 - 1989); Sergei Tcherepnin (1981); Third World Newsreel (1967); Stewart Uoo (1985); Stefanie Victor (1982); William Villalongo (1975); Keith Fullerton Whitman (1973); Sue Williams (1954); Lebbeus Woods (1940 - 2012); Nathan Donavon Wooley (1974); Geo Wyeth (1984); Carrie Yamaoka (1957); C. Spencer Yeh (1975); Mia Locks; Charles Simonds (1945);
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