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Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich

Opening: Wednesday, June 24, 6–8pm

June 24 – August 1, 2015

A photograph of the back quadrant of the gallery that depicts two ribbon artworks in the corners (pink at left, lime green at right). On the right wall is a small multicolor painting by Monick.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of half of the gallery, where a Monick painting is installed on the wall at left of a column in the foreground. To the right of the column but in the background are 3 ribbon pieces by Kovachevich in blue, pink, and green. The ribbon works are installed in the corners of the room.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of two ribbon works by Kovachevich installed in the gallery's corners: on the left is a pink ribbon, on the right is a green ribbon.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the front quadrant of the gallery, where there is a pink ribbon, a green ribbon, and a purple ribbon installed in the available corners. On a wall at right is a Jenny Monick painting.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of four Monick paintings with a cream ground and multi-colored semi-circles around the border.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the gallery's back quadrant. At left are 4 paintings by Monick with a cream ground. There is a yellow ribbon work in the back corner, and another Monick painting on the back-right wall.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the back half of the gallery: there is a yellow ribbon in the corner at left, and 2 Monick paintings surrounding the entrance to the gallery's office.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the gallery's interior with a white pole in the foreground: to the left is a pale painting by Monick, and at right are two ribbon artworks (blue, pink)

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the gallery's back quadrant where we see a pale painting by Monick in the foreground at left on the wall. Moving backward on that wall we see 2 ribbon works by Kovachevich (blue, green), then another Monick painting in the background at right.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the gallery that includes 2 Monick paintings in the background on 2 walls perpendicular to one another. On the right wall, there is also a pink ribbon artwork installed in the corner.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the back quadrant of the gallery with 2 Monick paintings: the darker painting is on the left wall in the foreground, a lighter painting is in the background. In the corner next to the lighter painting is a green ribbon work by Kovachevich.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the front of the gallery with a view of the front door. At left is a light-colored painting by Monick. Moving around the wall that painting is upon and the wall parallel to the door, 3 Kovachevich ribbon works are visible in each of the corners (green, lime, purple). There is another Monick painting near the door to the left.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the front door and the purple Kovachevich ribbon work, installed in a corner. At left is a Monick painting.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

A photograph of the interior of the gallery from outside. The orange ribbon work by Kovachevich is installed in the corner at left. We also can make out 4 Monick paintings in profile.

Installation view, Jenny Monick & Thomas Kovachevich, ​Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2015

Press Release

Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of paintings by Jenny Monick with installed artworks by Thomas Kovachevich, opening on Wednesday June 24th with a reception from 6 to 8pm, and ending on Thursday, July 30th. For this exhibition both artists, using their respective means, position the activity of their work at the edges of the picture and the corners of the gallery. 

Furthering this exploration of liminality, the gallery will host a screening of a looped film by G.B. Jones on Saturday July 18th, from 9pm to 4am. Organized by Dirty Looks as part of their month-long On Location series of screenings, the film will be projected against the storefront glass and will be viewable from the sidewalk while the gallery is closed.  

In Jenny Monick’s paintings, mark-making occurs along the edges of her canvases. There, using a stencil and spray paint, she applies areas of overlapping colors, framing a monochromatic or raw canvas ground. The simplicity of her approach and her intuitive way forward belies the rigor of her endeavor in painting, the risk involved in attempting to define a sense of emptiness. Each work touches on this impossibility, a paradox of edge and center. 

Thomas Kovachevich’s contributions are comprised of paper tape and ribbon installed in vertical strips. Running floor to ceiling, the three inch wide paper tape is topped with a length of grosgrain ribbon and both are nailed to the wall at the top and bottom. Previously these types of works formed large pictorial formats, but here each is limited to selected corners of the gallery room. The tape curls and uncurls around the ribbon over time as the level of humidity in the room changes, thereby implicating the whole room as a volume. 

Jenny Monick was born in Minneapolis, MN, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Monick has exhibited in national and international galleries and non-profit institutions such as Greene Naftali, New York; Gallery Lelong, New York; White Columns, New York; Art:Concept, Paris; The Drawing Center, New York; The Pineapple, Malmö, Sweden; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York; Reserve Ames, Los Angeles, CA; Kiria Koula, San Francisco, CA; among others. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Art on Paper, and has been reviewed on several occasions by The New York Times.

Thomas Kovachevich was born in Detroit, MI, and lives and works in New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Albert and Vera List Center at MIT, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Santa Monica Museum of Art; at galleries such as Galerie de France, Farideh Cadot and Berggruen & Cie, all Paris, Francesca Pia, Bern, and Curt Marcus, NY. Significant group exhibitions include Documenta 5, exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

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Dirty Looks: On Location at Callicoon Fine Arts:

G.B. Jones, Hot Dogs, super 8mm on HD video, 1:34 min. (loop), 1987/2015

Saturday, July 18, 9pm–4am

Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street

Toronto punk icon G.B. Jones' Hot Dogs is a short, bite-sized video of juicy wieners slowly turning on their warming spigots, here looped in tantalizing and mundane perpetuity. Hot Dogs can be seen as a wry meditation on our society's phallocentrism and in dialogue with the Lower East Side's rich history of sidewalk vending and cruising (two activities which intermingle outside the public washrooms of near-by intersection Delancey and Allen). Curator: Videofag

www.onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org

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