Mark Dion: New Prints and Drawings: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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Press release
Mark Dion is an acclaimed artist making conceptual sculpture and installation works, alongside an important body of graphic work encompassing both drawings and prints. Since the 1990s, Dion has been a key figure in the mode of institutional critique, grounding his works in deep investigations of different areas of expertise or bodies of scholarship and then mirroring the style and approach to create works that celebrate, probe, and often poke fun at the original inspiration.
Beloved by curators and institutions for his engagement with and examination of their methodologies, Dion’s work resides in many public collections, and has been the subject of many museum exhibitions over the past four decades, including not only fine art museums but also historical houses and natural history museums. Currently, Dion’s work is on view in Hudson, New York, as part of The Campus’s summer group show; in a two-person traveling presentation alongside longtime friend and collaborator Alexis Rockman, organized by the American Federation of Arts and on view at the University of Miami’s Lowe Museum; in a solo exhibition at the La Brea Tar Pits, part of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles Country; and in an intervention at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, NY, undertaken with Dana Sherwood.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present a special group of new drawings and prints by Mark Dion in the New York gallery’s viewing room. At a new, larger scale, the drawings take a sharp look at the issues, prejudices, information, and misinformation present in the world today. Presented in the format of educational charts, the sort of didactic poster seen in a classroom or at an academic convention, these drawings combine images, symbols, and terminology in a way that eludes straightforward meaning. Categories and labels are inscrutably applied to biological drawings, inviting the viewer to draw analogies that depend on their own preconceived notions and biases.
Beloved by curators and institutions for his engagement with and examination of their methodologies, Dion’s work resides in many public collections, and has been the subject of many museum exhibitions over the past four decades, including not only fine art museums but also historical houses and natural history museums. Currently, Dion’s work is on view in Hudson, New York, as part of The Campus’s summer group show; in a two-person traveling presentation alongside longtime friend and collaborator Alexis Rockman, organized by the American Federation of Arts and on view at the University of Miami’s Lowe Museum; in a solo exhibition at the La Brea Tar Pits, part of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles Country; and in an intervention at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, NY, undertaken with Dana Sherwood.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present a special group of new drawings and prints by Mark Dion in the New York gallery’s viewing room. At a new, larger scale, the drawings take a sharp look at the issues, prejudices, information, and misinformation present in the world today. Presented in the format of educational charts, the sort of didactic poster seen in a classroom or at an academic convention, these drawings combine images, symbols, and terminology in a way that eludes straightforward meaning. Categories and labels are inscrutably applied to biological drawings, inviting the viewer to draw analogies that depend on their own preconceived notions and biases.
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