Object, Joanne Greenbaum, 2005. Oil and flash on canvas, 62 x 60 in.
This weekend, check out Lush Life – a nine-part exhibition based on Richard Price’s iconic novel, Lush Life. Nine Lower East Side galleries have partnered with 50 artists to explore themes in each of the nine chapters of the book. The book captures the contradictions of the recently gentrified area and the exhibition builds on its themes—change, the commercialization of culture, and connections to our past, future, neighbors, friends, bars, reality.
Other Halves, Nanna Debots Buhl, 2007
Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Franklin Evans, the organizers recognize the exhibition’s potential to perpetuate the erosion of LES by becoming fodder for bar-hopping trustifarians or to altogether fall flat as effective commentary. Lush Life invites LES dwellers past and present to discuss the fine points or pointlessness of the exhibition in what could become an interesting conversation on the evolution of one of New York’s most beloved areas by those who transformed it.
Totem, Derrick Adams, 2010
The nine galleries are hosting a collective opening this Thursday from 6-9PM—see Lush Life for more info.
Image via Sue Scott Gallery
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