DENNY DIMIN GALLERY NEW YORK

 

Timeframe features two ongoing bodies of work that investigate memory, illness, and the relationships we build in the spaces we create for learning and labor.

Live Study appears in its two forms -- as a series of oil portraits and related color studies and as an archive of 850 hours of live-streamed video documenting the artist’s painting sessions to date. The subjects of the paintings are Mandiberg’s former studio assistants surrounded by the instruments and technologies they used and imagery from projects they worked on. The exhibition includes the first chapters of this ongoing project, from 2004 to 2009, presented chronologically in clockwise order. The size of each portrait corresponds with the number of hours the assistant worked, and the pricing corresponds with the total amount they were paid. The artist has made two copies of each portrait, one of which they will give to each former assistant as a gift and one of which is on view here.

In 2019, The Whitney Museum of American Art’s artport platform began exhibiting the Live Study videos, which now extend for nearly a thousand hours. These videos will run throughout the exhibition.

Michael Mandiberg, Selection of the Zoom Paintings. Oil on canvas. Each 6 x 11 in/15 x 28 cm.

Michael Mandiberg began the second body of work in the exhibition, Zoom Paintings, during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. As a coping mechanism and a way to memorialize this new yet increasingly common form of human interaction, Mandiberg began painting the skewed backgrounds of participants from their numerous Zoom meetings. Mandiberg paints the bedrooms, office spaces, kitchens, empty walls, ceilings, and views out their windows in 6 x 11 inches, the proportions of a Zoom video. The artist has, however, omitted the figure that sat there, reinforcing a sense of loneliness and disembodiment. The Zoom Paintings continue Live Study’s themes of memory, loss and isolation, and likewise posit survival through support and connection.

During the exhibition, one painting at a time is on view online in a Zoom meeting, accessible through the gallery’s Virtual platform and a tablet in this room. The exhibition will be open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed from November 25-27 (Thanksgiving). Masks required for entry. Instagram Website Email Twitter Facebook