exhibitions - according to jen
Contemporary Art According to Jen:
A Powerpoint video presentation by Jennifer Dalton
October 23, 2004 – November 24, 2004
In her witty PowerPoint presentation, Contemporary Art According to Jen, New York artist Jennifer Dalton assumes the role of obsessively cataloging curator in an office-appropriate technological medium. In her Artforum review of Dalton’s recent exhibition at Plus Ultra Gallery in Brooklyn, critic Frances Richard writes, "Decorated with painfully cheesy clip art, the PowerPoint windows cycle through a version of art-world categorization, with headings like "The Artist as Loser" or "The Artist as Documentarian" and “Have I Mentioned I Often Have Sex?" Beneath each heading Dalton provides a bulleted list of contemporary 'anointed' artists that she feels is appropriate to the topic. Sometimes respectful, sometimes sarcastic, but never quite reaching a bitchy pitch, the work offers a playful inventory as filtered through one individual’s curatorial assessment.view exhibition
Dalton's lists of artists owe much to her own experience writing art criticism and her inclination towards appraisals and assessments of art world insider practices. A young Brooklyn-based artist, she has had solo exhibitions at Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Clementine Gallery, New York, NY; Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY; Marvelli Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Oni Gallery, Boston, MA; Kunstraum fur Zeit, Linz, Austria; White Columns, New York, NY; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY; Miller-Durazo, Los Angeles, CA; Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY and Rush Arts, New York, NY.
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