JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS
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BROOKLYN, NY 11211
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New Gallery Hours: Thursday through Monday, 12 – 6 PM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Do You Like Plain Pleasures? by Chris Doyle, and Lost In Translation by Koji Shimizu. Both exhibitions will open Friday, September 12 with a reception from 6-9 PM and will run through October 13.

MAIN GALLERY
In a new series of watercolors titled, Do you like plain pleasures? Chris Doyle combines a personal investigation of his family’s dynamic with a reexamination of art historical sources that have informed his own practice. Taken from video footage, the artist works from stills to create large watercolors that present a storyboard documenting Doyle’s life in his live-workspace. By capturing the “photograph” and creating a painting of a shared meal; the reenactment of a famous 70s performance; the artist sorting out a mess of wires; or “Friday Night Talent Nite” with the family playing amid piles of dolls and stuffed animals, Doyle aims to expand his own experience and prolong the intimacy of the moment. By combining everyday life activities with homages to the practice of art making, the artist explores the interplay between private and public histories.

Running concurrently with Do You Like Plain Pleasures?, Chris Doyle’s Endless Love, will be on view at the Sculpture Center. In this two-channel projection, the artist captures two remote control helicopters cruising around the museum’s cavernous new space. Flirting with each other, they begin to touch, becoming so entangled that they destroy each other.

Chris Doyle’s first solo gallery exhibition, In Private, opened at Jessica Murray Projects (2002). Doyle has previously enjoyed recognition for many of his public art projects including: Commutable, (1996) where he gold-leafed the steps to the Manhattan entrance of the Williamsburg Bridge (Public Art Fund); and LEAP (2000) (Creative Time) a projection on a building in Columbus Circle of larger than life people (who live on the last stops of the subway lines) jumping into the sky. His installations and video works have been included in exhibitions at PS 1, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out, and New York Magazine. He has been awarded grants from the New York Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, Percent for Art, and the Public Art Fund. He has also been awarded several artist-in-residencies at the McDowell Colony.

In April 2004, Chris Doyle will be recreating his project LEAP—first presented in Columbus Circle in 2000—for the city of Melbourne, Australia with Creative Capital.

DRAWING ROOM
In the drawing room, Jessica Murray Projects is also pleased to announce Lost In Translation by Koji Shimizu. In this work the artist explores Japan’s infantilism of violence and masculinity in a culture created on the backdrop of post WW II defeat. On first observation, Shimizu appears to create an abstract pile of plush satin objects in the colors of fruit chews--hot pink, orange, and chartreuse. With further examination, the viewer connects what looks like a bath toy sea anemone to the shaft of a machine gun, transforming the lump into a symbol of a mini explosion. A mess of rods and parts, limp and harmless, unfold to describe parts of helicopters. A larger mass that one might expect to be the belly of a teddy bear takes the form of a military tank.

Shimizu has been awarded grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and participated in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum.

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