FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Flight Power Love Tower, an exhibition by Chris Doyle. The exhibition will open Friday, October 14, 2005 with a reception from 6–8 pm, and run through November 12. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am–6 pm.

Hanging from the ceiling, Doyle has constructed an eagle with a 25-foot wingspan. Made from fluorescent tubes, the illuminated centerpiece of the exhibition uses this prime symbol of American patriotism to investigate the multiple associations with freedom and predator. In a related video, entitled “Power” Doyle creates a stop-action animation from the skeleton of his giant aviator. His video is then encased within the face of a sterling silver Western style belt buckle, presenting this miniaturized icon as ready-to-wear. Blurring the boundaries between repression and freedom, the artist explores many strains of our struggle with public and private power whether it be through our experience of politics or sex. Video and sculptural elements of this exhibition will run concurrently at Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a series “NextNextArt2005” curated by Dan Cameron.

This will be Chris Doyle’s third solo exhibition with Jessica Murray Projects. 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 2 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 The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, The Brooklyn Museum, PS1, the Queens Museum of Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park. His work has been reviewed in the Flash Art, New York Times, Time Out, and New York Magazine. He has been awarded grants from the Creative Capital, 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 an artist in residence at the McDowell Colony.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 212 633 9606 or info@jessicamurrayprojects.com.

Further details are available in Gallery Information.