Yesteryear

STEREOMONGREL | Galerie Michael Janssen - Singapore, 2012

For the grand opening of Gillman Barracks, Singapore, Galerie Michael Janssen is thrilled to present STEREOMONGREL, a film by New York based artist Luis Gispert & Los Angeles based photographer and music producer Jeffrey Reed.

The exhibition is curated by David Hunt.

This twelve-minute film – revolving around the fictitious character of Hortencia, the young daughter of a white, Upper East Side socialite and a Dominican-American museum security guard – explores notions of hybridity and cultural heterogeneity as a celebration of sub-cultural phenomena and their attendant stereotypes.

HUE + CRY | Sotheby’s S|2 – New York, 2012

Sotheby’s is pleased to present HUE + CRY, a selling exhibition within the house’s private gallery, featuring Angel Otero, Ali Banisadr, Rob Fischer, Francesca DiMattio, Allora & Calzadilla, Michel Francois, Ugo Rondinone, Kadar Brock, Wendy White, Robert Melee, Nicolas Pol, Cecily Brown, Rosy Keyser, Albert Oehlen, Jacqueline Humphries, Jackie Saccoccio, Daniel Hesidence, and Jin Meyerson.

From gestural drips to urban hieroglyphs, and from hypergraphic superimposition to lush stains of pigment that literally bleed into the canvas itself, Hue + Cry bears witness to the transformation of Abstract Expressionism as an historical movement into abstract expressions of movement.

Whether rubbed, smeared, sanded, splashed, sprayed or stroked, a kind of restless kinetic movement is always both common denominator and organizing principle. Quite simply, then, Hue + Cry is both a clarion call to arms for a present that is lasting, and an ecstatic visual roadmap for a promising middle-future.

On the Pleasure of Hating | Lisa Cooley Fine Art - New York, 2009

Lisa Cooley is pleased to present On the Pleasure of Hating: love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; Hatred alone is immortal.

The exhibition is curated by David Hunt, and features Josh Faught, Simone Leigh, Nicholas Lobo, Shana Lutker, Mike Quinn and Dario Robleto.

On the Pleasure of Hating takes its title and its premise from the eponymous essay by the renowned English writer and philosopher, William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

“Nature seems (the more we look into it) made up of antipathies: without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring interests, the unruly passions, of men...."

Herd Thinner | Charest-Weinberg Gallery - miami, 2009

Charest-Weinberg Gallery is pleased to present HERD THINNER, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt, featuring Pedro Barbeito, Slater Bradley, SunTek Chung, Richard Dupont, Martha Friedman, Sheree Hovsepian, Rashid Johnson, Simone Leigh, André Masson, Fernando Mastrangelo, Raha Raissnia, Marc Seguin, Seher Shah, Erin Shirreff, Jeff Sonhouse and Ouattara Watts.

BOOK I

ON THE THINNING OF THE HERD, GENERALLY. CONTAINING AS MUCH INFORMATION AS NECESSARY TO ACQUAINT OUR READER WITH THE BEGINNING OF THIS HISTORY . . . .

Zero Zone | Tracy Williams, Ltd. - New York, 2008

Tracy Williams is pleased to present Zero Zone, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt, featuring Jane Benson, Ian Cooper, David Kennedy Cutler, John Espinosa, Rashid Johnson, Rosy Keyser, Demetrius Oliver, Alyssa Pheobus, Jennifer Ruff, Marc Seguin and Siebren Versteeg.

“Space Age and Stone Age attitudes overlap to form the Zero-Zone, wherein the spaceman meets the brontosaurus in a Jurassic swamp on Mars.”
Robert Smithson

The exhibition Zero Zone takes Robert Smithson’s oft-cited reformulation of time as a crystal structure whose matrix expands rhizomatically as its launching point. Whether describing the planetarium as Pascal’s infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, as a theatrical stage for “vague disorders and contingencies,” or the practice of art as a “vast mining enterprise, with innumerable shafts, most of them closed down,” Smithson -- in a language of willful confusion and hyperbolic prophecy -- began his lifelong critique of Hegelian linear time and its attendant illusion of temporal development that has come to structure all of art history.

BLOOD MERIDIAN | Galerie Michael Janssen – Berlin, 2007

Michael Janssen is pleased to present Blood Meridian, an exhibition curated by David Hunt, showcasing twenty-one international artists in all media.

Blood Meridian inaugurates the opening of Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin.

Featuring: Diana Al-Hadid, Jesse Bercowetz, ChanSchatz, Nicole Cherubini, Gordon Cheung, Benjamin Cottam, David Kennedy Cutler, Valie Export, Tine Furler, Till Gerhard, Angelina Gualdoni, Liz Larner, Johannes Lotz, Jin Meyerson, Ted O’Sullivan, Enoc Perez, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Sara VanDerBeek, Debora Warner, Pawel Wojtasik, and Zachary Wollard.

“The ponies had begun to veer off from the herd and the drovers were beating their way toward this armed company met with on the plain. Already you could see through the dust on the ponies’ hides the painted chevrons and the hands and rising suns and birds and fish of every device like the shade of old work through sizing on a canvas and now too you could hear above the pounding of the unshod hooves the piping of the quena, flutes made from human bones . . . "

COMEDY & TRAGEDY | Marvelli Gallery – New York, 2010

Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present COMEDY & TRAGEDY, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt, featuring Anna Craycroft, Richard Dupont, Simone Leigh, Nicolas Lobo, Dave McDermott, Rosemarie Padovano, Todd Pavlisko, Marc Seguin, and Nic van Woert.

SCARECROW | Postmasters Gallery - New York, 2006

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present SCARECROW, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt and featuring Sarah Bednarek, Jane Benson, Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua, Jan Bunnig, David Kennedy Cutler, Dana Frankfort, Daniel Gordon, David Herbert, Duron Jackson, Rashid Johnson, and Chris Larson.

***MAS*H |*** ART LOVES DESIGN - 3800 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL, 2006

M*A*S*H is an all-media group exhibition taking place in a medical office normally assisting lower income residents. The term "MASH," or Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, refers to any military medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area. In December, Art Basel Miami Beach invades Miami and becomes the combat zone of art world operations, while M*A*S*H, the exhibition, serves as the revivifying antidote and rejuvenating outpost for beleaguered viewers not swayed by the more domesticated offerings on hand in South Beach.

Featured artists, include: Patrick Armacost, Sandra Bermudez, Kadar Brock, Nicole Cherubini, Gordon Cheung, Sam Clagnas, Regina Jose Galindo, Jose Guinto, Tommy Hartung, Liz Magic Laser, Navin Norling, Ryan O'Connor, Ted O'Sullivan, Tracey Snelling, Erica Svec, The 62 w/ Joshua Ray Stephens, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Panos Tsagaris, Zachary Wollard, Darius Yektai, and Carlo Zanni.

The original MASH units were designed as a faster, more efficient alternative to the system of portable hospitals used during World War II. M*A*S*H, the show produced by David Hunt and Michael Sellinger (www.cottelston.com), is conceived as a quick and nimble snapshot of the emerging contemporary market absent at ABMB's slower moving, more established, hierarchical juggernaut.

OFF MY BISCUIT, DESTROY YOUR DISTRICT! | SAMSON PROJECTS – BOSTON, 2005

Camilo Alvarez and David Hunt are pleased to present a group exhibition of twelve artists working in all media, featuring Todd Arsenault, Jane Benson, Frank Brunner, SunTek Chung, Stacy Fisher, Luis Gispert, Iva Gueorguieva, David Kennedy-Cutler, Molly Larkey, Rachel Mason, Elizabeth Neel and Jennifer Ruff.

RELENTLESS PROSELYTIZERS | FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY – NEW YORK, 2004

Feigen Contemporary is pleased to present RELENTLESS PROSELYTIZERS, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt, featuring Jay Batlle, Ben Beaudoin, Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua, Ben Blatt, SunTek Chung, Gina Dawson, Adam Helms, Haavard Homstvedt, Elizabeth Huey, Matthew Day Jackson, and Christopher Rodrigues.

DUSK | I-20 – NEW YORK, 2000

I-20 is pleased to present DUSK, a group exhibition curated by David Hunt, featuring Haluk Akakce, Yorgo Alexpoloulos, Fia Backstrom, Matt Bakkom, Jonathan Calm, Andrea Claire, Meredith Danluck, Lucky DeBellevue, Richard Dupont, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Craig Kalpakjian, Kelly Lamb, Miranda Lichtenstein, Ryan McGinness, Ricardo de Oliveira, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Michael Phelan, Nicolas Rieben, Peter Sarkisian, Kiki Seror and Sontext.

SUPERIMPOSITION | CAREN GOLDEN FINE ART - NEW YORK, 2000

Caren Golden is pleased to present SUPERIMPOSITION, curated by David Hunt.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Susan Goldman.

SUPERIMPOSITION features:

Yorgo Alexopolous, Matthew Bakkom, Jonathan Calm, Marsha Cottrell, Jay Davis, Pia Dehne, Luke Dowd, Mike Drury, Richard DuPont, Torben Giehler, Susan Goldman, Jacqueline Humphries, Anthony James, Jim Lambie, Joan Linder, Tam Ochiai, Jessica Rankin, Jeff Reed, Gedi Sibony, Ian Stell and Jon Widman.