- Manal Abu-Shaheen
- Vahap Avşar
- Jesus Benavente and Felipe Castelblanco
- Brian Caverly
- Kerry Downey
- Magali Duzant
- Golnaz Esmaili
- Mohammed Fayaz
- Kate Gilmore
- Jonah Groeneboer
- Bang Geul Han and Minna Pöllänen
- Dave Hardy
- Sylvia Hardy
- Shadi Harouni
- Janks Archive
- Robin Kang
- Kristin Lucas
- Carl Marin
- Eileen Maxson
- Melanie McLain
- Shane Mecklenburger
- Lawrence Mesich
- Freya Powell
- Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
- Alan Ruiz
- Samita Sinha and Brian Chase
- Barb Smith
- Monika Sziladi
- Alina Tenser
- Trans-Pecos with 8 Ball Community, E.S.P. TV, and Chillin Island
- Mark Tribe
- Sam Vernon
- Max Warsh
- Jennifer Williams
Produced with an overhead projector, Kerry Downey’s animation explores a series of haptic encounters with people, histories, objects, and spaces through the fluidity of colors, shapes, and gestures it portrays. Along with the artist’s narrated anecdotes, images moving through the projector’s flatbed shift between the intimate and remote, slippery and stable, poetic and political. While it remains unclear whether we are learning an abstract language or forgetting one, Downey is interested in moments of recognition and the processes by which we come to know or love or experience an “other.” The handle, a recurring image in Downey’s work, is a literal representation of something we reach for, hold onto, or lean on for support; it is also an object that connects the body to the outside world. This tool begs the question: what is at stake with our coming in contact with the world? Downey’s work contemplates these moments of contact, the suspended moments of possibility between one action and the next, and the ways we contain or expose ourselves in such precarious situations.
Performance:
Fishing with Angela
May 22nd, 2pm
Based on a fishing trip Downey took with mentor Angela Dufresne, the project engages with histories of mimicry through queer, feminist, pedagogical, painterly, and performative practices.
Kerry Downey earned an MFA from Hunter College, NY (2009) and a BA in Fine Arts from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2002). Downey's work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York (2015), Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2014), Taylor Macklin, Zurich, Switzerland (2014), Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT (2014), Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY (2014), and NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY (2013). Downey’s work has been recognized by publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Downey participated in the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions (2014-15) and was a Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow (2012-13). The artist is a recent recipient of the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant.
- An Itinerary with Notes
- Exhibition Views
- Hidden
- Watershed
- A Distant Memory Being Recalled (Queens Teens Respond)
- Overhead: A Response to Kerry Downey’s Fishing with Angela
- Sweat, Leaks, Holes: Crossing the Threshold
- PULSE: On Jonah Groeneboer’s The Potential in Waves Colliding
- Interview: Melanie McLain and Alina Tenser
- Personal Space
- Data, the Social Being, and the Social Network
- Responses from Mechanical Turk
- MAPS, DNA, AND SPAM
- Queens Internacional 2016
- Uneven Development: On Beirut and Plein Air
- A Crisis of Context
- Return to Sender
- Interview: Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- Mining Through History: The Contemporary Practices of Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- A Conversation with Shadi Harouni's The Lightest of Stones
- Directions to a Gravel Quarry
- Walk This Way
- Interview: Brian Caverly and Barb Smith
- "I drew the one that has the teeth marks..."
- BEAT IT! (Queens Teens respond)
- Moments
- Lawn Furniture
- In Between Difference, Repetition, and Original Use
- Interview: Dave Hardy and Max Warsh
- Again—and again: on the recent work of Alan Ruiz
- City of Tomorrow
- Noticing This Space
- NO PLACE FOR A MAP
- The History of the World Was with Me That Night
- What You Don't See (Queens Teens Respond)
- Interview: Allison Davis and Sam Vernon
- When You’re Smiling…The Many Faces Behind the Mask
- Interview: Jesus Benavente and Carl Marin
- The Eternal Insult
- Janking Off
- Queens Theatricality