Abu Dhabi is Love Forever, the solo exhibition in the Teaching Gallery by Brooklyn collaborative artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, closes Saturday, Dec. 8. Gallery hours through the remainder of the show are10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The McCoys are best known for their “miniatures” that combine high- and low-tech representations of their lives and our contemporary American culture. Painstakingly crafted in their Brooklyn studio from hijacked media components and craft store model-making supplies, these works turn reality inside out, upside down, and back in on itself. They are small-scale sites where narrative, craft and theory meet in a complex vortex.
In August of 2010, the McCoys moved their family from Brooklyn to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where they lived until June 2011. During that time, through video, collage, photography and found imagery, the McCoys reacted to and contemplated the culture and landscape of their new, temporary home in the desert.
Originally exhibited in 2011 at Postmasters Gallery in New York City, this exhibit is an expanded version of Abu Dhabi is Love Forever that brings together collaged labels from consumer goods, photographs of impossibly chic yet sterile interiors, and panoramic images of both the glittering city of travel brochures and the dusty, dirty backside that is the unseen scaffold for all that glitters in Abu Dhabi.
The McCoys’ work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally — their most recent shows have been at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, BFI (British Film Institute) Southbank in London, Hanover Kunstverein, the Beall Center in Irvine, CA, pkm Gallery in Beijing, the San Jose Museum of Art, Palazzo della Papesse in Siena, the Addison Museum of American Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Their work can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Henry Art Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Speed Museum.
Please click here to read a review of the exhibition in the Times Union.
Published: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:41:01 +0000 by e.bryant