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IMPLANT
AUGUST 7 – OCTOBER 31, 2008
The UBS Art Gallery
1285 Avenue of the Americas @ 52nd Street
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday from 8am to 6pm
IMPLANT is a contemporary art exhibition riffing on ideas presented by Michael Pollan in his book, The Botany of Desire. Artists in the exhibition are Darren Almond, Lothar Baumgarten, Judith Belzer, Dale Berning, Carol Bove, Stan Brakhage, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ian Campbell, Nick Cave, CAW + NG, Peter Coffin, Sharon Core, Ann Craven, Tacita Dean, William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Jane Freilicher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Amy Granat, Zach Harris, Susannah Hewlett, Carston Holler, Katie Holten, Ellsworth Kelly, Karen Kilmnik, Jude Miller, David Melrose, John O, Hiroko Ohno, Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Orlaineta, Gabriel Orozco, Guiseppe Penone, Pipilotti Rist, Gino Saccone, Jim Sams, Hiraki Sawa, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, Helen Van Meene, Klaus Weber, James Welling, Carol Woodin, Francesca Woodman.
Curated by Jodie Vicenta Jacobson for The Horticultural Society of New York
Click here to read more about IMPLANT (pdf)
Read reviews of the exhibition: The New York Times, Frieze, Time Out NY, and The Village Voice
IMPLANT Performances
Two musical performances and simultaneous film screenings are taking place at The UBS Art Gallery in conjunction with IMPLANT. Stan Brakhage's Garden of Earthly Delights, a 16mm film, will be projected onto Peter Coffin's Untitled (Greenhouse) during the musical performances inside the greenhouse.
These performances are free and open to the public. Taking place at The UBS Art Gallery, 1285 Avenue of the Americas @ 52nd Street on:
September 24, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
October 22, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
IMPLANT Photo Credit (above):
Felix Gonzalez-Torres "Untitled" (Alice B. Toklas' and Gertrude Stein's Grave, Paris), 1992; framed C-print, 29 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches, Image: 15 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches, Edition of 4, 1 AP; Photo: Peter Muscato, © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation; Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
