Artists: Michael Assiff, Julie Ault & Martin Beck, Barbara Bloom, Lars Breuer, Marcel Broodthaers, Sam Charles, Dexter Sinister, Jessica Dickinson, Aaron Gemmill, Wade Guyton, Marc Handelman, Phoebe d’Heurle, Steven Holl, Miles Huston, James Kelly, Zoe Leonard, Kate Levant, Karel Martens, Ebecho Muslimova, Seth Price, Amy Yao, Brian O’Doherty (Patrick Ireland), Aki Sasamoto, Matthew Schrader
Exhibition title: O / U
Organized with: Aaron Gemmill
Venues: P!, ROOM EAST, New York, US
Date: July 15 – August 20, 2016
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists, P! and ROOM EAST
P! and ROOM EAST are pleased to present a summer group show, O / U, organized in collaboration with artist Aaron Gemmill. It is the first time the two galleries have worked together. The exhibition will take place in both venues, from 15 July through 20 August 2016. The show includes 25 artists working in a variety of media, including site-specific pieces.
The show’s title is shorthand for “over-under”—which may refer to the combined score of a gambling or sporting event, a complicated sexual position, or a type of double-barrelled shotgun. In a formal context, over-under suggests overprinting or undercutting. As a maneuver to override or undermine, it has political and strategic connotations. Consider the Übermensch and the underdog. Over-under juxtaposes two prepositions that exist in a dialectic: you cannot have one without the other. Divided between the two galleries, the works on view invoke spatial, hierarchical, and power relations in both overt and understated ways.
O / U at P!
Amy Yao, Silent Sneeze II, no. 11 (Jouissance, PCH: LES, Beijing), 2014
Marc Handelman, Untitled, 2016
Aaron Gemmill, 40°40’24.4″N 73°59’23.1″W, 2016
Zoe Leonard, January 23, Frame 8, 2011
Jessica Dickinson, remainder: Are: Here (Final), 2016
Phoebe d’Heurle, One million, 2016
Barbara Bloom, Berlin Street Corner, 1989
Brian O’Doherty (Patrick Ireland), Borromini’s Underpass, 1980
Karel Martens, Untitled, 2015
Marcel Broodthaers, Moi aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussir dans la vie . . . (I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life…), 1964
Barbara Bloom, Berlin Street Corner, 1989
Aaron Gemmill, Camera Drawing 2016, 2016
Aaron Gemmill, Camera Drawing 2016, 2016
O / U at ROOM EAST
Jessica Dickinson, remainder: Are: Here (Final), 2016
Jessica Dickinson, Bundini Brown 2016
Amy Yao, Silent Sneeze II, no. 4 (1999/ Bubbles), 2014
Michael Assiff, Hyperaccumulators (clippings), 2016
Michael Assiff, Sunflowers (faceplate) 2016, 2016
Seth Price, Notes On This Show: Seemingly Random Violence, 2006
