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Michael Mandiberg, National Phonebank with Artists for Biden/Harris, 6:00 — 8:00 PM, September 20, 2020 (#27), 2020. Oil on canvas, 6 x 11 in/15 x 28 cm. MICHAEL MANDIBERG THE ZOOM PAINTINGS A Digital Project | ENDS TOMORROW, November 25   VISIT NOW   PRESS "'It's Memorializing How Unmemorable It Is:' Artist Michael Mandiberg on Painting Melancholy Portraits on Zoom," by Taylor Dafoe in artnet news  Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to present a new digital project by Michael Mandiberg, The Zoom Paintings, which will begin on November 12th and run for two weeks. The exhibition will be open, Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6 pm EST exclusively via Zoom. One painting will be on view each day, for a total of ten paintings.  Visit The Zoom Paintings on our website's Virtual page. Mandiberg’s process responds to the transformation of everyday life in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the April lockdown the artist began painting their endless video meetings as a coping mechanism for isolation and anxiety. During a call, Mandiberg would choose one participants’ video from the zoom grid, and paint the room the participant was calling in from, observing the intentional and unintentional ways people presented themselves and their environment. These paintings are the same 9:16 aspect ratio, and about the same size as the video on the artist’s computer screen. The artist chose to remove the person sitting before the camera and only paint the empty space around them, to emphasize the distance and absence of the experience. These scenes range from off-white walls to improvised office spaces to the outdoors.    In thinking about their reason for painting the series, Mandiberg writes, “Time has shifted in the absence of regular routine, and I have lost track of what day it is. These paintings help me keep track of digital experiences that are more likely to slip away and be forgotten. They are memory, and memorials.”   As the pandemic is still ongoing, the artist has chosen to present the paintings through Zoom itself. Each day, a new painting of a Zoom background will appear before the camera. The work can be accessed through a Zoom link, which will be published in advance of the opening and accessible through the Virtual page of Denny Dimin Gallery’s website, during gallery hours. Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from large-scale installations and software-driven durational performances to socially-engaged pedagogy. They explore the poetics and politics of the information age, making visible processes that are often hidden in plain sight. Mandiberg's projects have been written about widely—including in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal—and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the New Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Arizona State University Museum and Library, and Denny Dimin Gallery, amongst others, and are in the permanent collections of LACMA, the Stedelijk Museum and 21c Museum. They are the recipient of a LACMA Art+Technology Lab grant, three Eyebeam fellowships, and a Mellon fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center. Mandiberg is Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.  For more information, contact Elizabeth Denny at elizabeth@dennydimingallery.com or Robert Dimin at robert@dennydimingallery.com, or call 212-226-6537, in New York. Or contact Katie Alice Fitz Gerald at katiealice@dennydimingallery.com or call +852 5721 2638, in Hong Kong.

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