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Martin Schoeller limited edition portrait of Barack Obama

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Hasted Hunt Gallery, NYC offers a Martin Schoeller limited edition portrait of Barack Obama, 11"x14" archival pigment print, edition of 500, signed and numbered by the artist for $250 (plus $18 shipping and handling). All proceeds support the Obama for President campaign. Phone: +1 212 627 0006 or E-mail: info@hastedhunt.com

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Exhibition Review: Roe Ethridge – Rockaway Redux (on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery thru Oct. 4)

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In Rockaway Redux Roe Ethridge continues to carve out his position as a kind of Paul Outerbridge for the post-modern era, creating pleasingly off-kilter photographs in a wild array of styles that refract the banal world of commercial photography to disquieting effect. None of these images go so far into the realm of the perverse as, say, Outerbridge’s Women with Claws (1937), but there is a feeling in Ethridge's images of too-pretty sunsets and his awkward nude posed in an art-historically confused studio setup that something just beneath the surface is amiss. Ethridge hints at the nature of this disturbance in the show’s press release, which takes a the form of a letter: “One of the reasons I’ve been so interested in this kind of displaced, broad scope approach is an effort to embrace the arbitrariness of the image and image making. For me serendipity and intention are both necessary. Another reason for the wild style is the dread of conclusiveness. The dread of finitude. This work is against death and finality.” But, at the last minute, he backpedals: “No, that’s too hyperbolic, let’s say it’s about working in the service of the image and getting my kicks too.” Of course, this is fitting: Ethridge’s images speak, but never unequivocally.

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Chris Wiley

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The Short List – September

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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY - Cyanotypes (Paula Cooper, thru Oct.11)

ROB PRUITT - iPhotos (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, thru Oct. 11)

ABELARDO MORELL - PICTURESinPICTURES (Bonni Benrubi, thru Dec. 6)

ALLESSANDRA SANGUINETTI - The Life That Came (Yossi Milo, thru Oct. 18)

JEFF WHETSTONE - Post-Pleistocene (Julie Saul, thru Oct. 25)

MATTHEW DAY JACKSON - Drawings From Tlön (Nicole Klagsbrun, thru Oct. 18)

LORRAINE O'GRADY - Miscegenated Family Album (Alexander Gray Associates, thru Oct.11)

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Exhibition Review: Martha Rosler – Great Power (On view at Mitchell Innes Nash thru Oct. 11)

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On entering Rosler’s new show, visitors are asked to make a symbolic choice. You can pay a dollar and fritter away your time playing Dance Dance Revolution, the Japanese arcade game that’s basically the dance equivalent of karaoke, or for a quarter (a change machine is provided), go through a turnstile and see the show. The choice is congruent with the concerns of the work behind the turnstile, which is an update and an expansion of her Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful for an era with an eerily similar pugilistic quagmire.

The show is largely comprised of a series of digital photomontages that hew (perhaps too closely) to the old model. Rosler continues to smash together war reportage with the glossy ejecta of the style industry, and to beg the questions of both how we direct our attention, and how an industry aggressively designed to monopolize it might be—tacitly or not—complicit in the horrors of war. Despite their familiarity, the political message still smolders, and is a welcome respite from the market-dominated ethos of much contemporary art. Also present are an array of binders containing newspaper clippings and ephemera archiving the tragic arc of the Bush years, complete with a study area hung with images of the spines of books of utopian and dystopian fiction, investigative journalism, and leftist political philosophy taken from Rosler’s extensive personal library.

Prototype (God Bless America), 2006, Video. 1 min.

Most affecting are a new sculptural work of an outsized prosthetic leg and a brutally succinct new video work: Hung from the ceiling and adorned with images of fashionable shoes, the giant prosthesis kicks at the air, it’s somber rhythm and creaking pneumatics bringing to mind the futility and frustration characteristic of our seemingly interminable conflicts abroad. On a small video screen nearby, a toy soldier gyrates while he plays a tinny rendition of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. While the work seems at first to be a snide Duchampian gesture aimed at the straw man of patriotic kitsch, as the camera pans over the body of the novelty soldier it is revealed that Rosler has intervened and executed a much more subtle détournement. One of the little soldier’s pant legs has been rolled up to reveal the mechanized armature underneath, which resembles nothing so much as one of the high-tech prostheses that prop up those who have been ravaged by war.

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Exhibition Review: Andres Serrano – Shit (On view at Yvon Lambert Gallery thru Oct. 4)

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Attn: Department of Ironically Apt Titles.

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