Spencer Sweeney
14. Spencer Sweeney: The Pharaoh's Lounge- Party Paintings and Sauna
In Spencer Sweeney's upcoming show at GBE Sweeney presents paintings in a most utilitarian form: The painting as an advertisement with a time and a price and a location. The event? A party. A reason to live. A reason to live in New York City. Hand made to be seen by millions, they are thrown out on the wires and the wireless to alert the party people of a reason to gather. These are paintings in drag, dressed to the nines as commerce. Ads for the weekend, disguised as Fine Art. Oil transfigured into ones and zeros. A party contained in a painting. Less oil, more dancing.
Details:
Gavin Brown’s enterprise
620 Greenwich Street, New York
November 19 – December 22, 2011
Opening reception: November 19, 6-8 PM
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