Artist talk with Elaine Reichek at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York

ELAINE REICHEK AND ISAAC JULIEN IN CONVERSATION

ARTISTS’ TALK: Monday, March 26, 6:30 pm
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
534 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
www.nicoleklagsbrun.com

This event is free and open to the public.

Nicole Klagsbrun will host a conversation between Elaine Reichek and Isaac Julien, on Monday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. Despite the evident contrast in their respective art practices, both Reichek and Julien have long been concerned with codes of representation and the narrative possibilities of photographic images. Throughout her career Reichek has always completely bypassed the camera, focusing instead on pre-existing images, culled from a wide array of sources, which she recontextualizes and materially transforms. By contrast, Julien’s practice often foregrounds the camera apparatus as the means of production, and by extension emphasizes the exhibition site as a constructed, cinematic space.

Elaine Reichek was born in 1943 in New York City, where she lives and works. She has been using thread as a core element in her work since the early 1970s, and was a pioneer among conceptual artists rethinking the role of craft in the fine arts. In Reichek’s art, thread is a line that directly connects objects, images, ideas and technologies. Her work is held in several museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and The Jewish Museum, New York. Her work is included in this year’s Whitney Biennial and the Sao Paolo Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2000); the Tel Aviv Museum (2000); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1999); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (1995); The Jewish Museum, New York (1994); Stichtung de Appel, Amsterdam (1994); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1993); and Grey Art Gallery at New York University (1992). Reichek received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2012, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1993.

Filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien’s work is held in collections that include: Tate, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. His most recent work Ten Thousand Waves premiered at the 2010 Sydney Biennale and has gone on to be exhibited at venues throughout the world. Julien has participated in the Venice Biennale (2009); the 7th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008); Prospect 1, New Orleans (2008); and Performa 07, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (2011); L’Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2011); Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo (2011); The Bass Museum, Miami (2010); Helsinki Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki (2010); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2008); Kestnergesellschart, Hannover, (2006) Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005).

Nicole Klagsbrun
534 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
P. 212.243.3335
F. 646.219.7338
[email protected]
www.nicoleklagsbrun.com