David Lewis. Barbara Bloom. Frieze New York Focus Booth D35. Randall s Island. May 3-6, 2018

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1 - - Frieze New York Focus Booth D35 Randall s Island - May 3-6, 2018 David Lewis Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY info@davidlewisgallery.com

2 Biography (b. Los Angeles, California: 1951) lives and works in New York City. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Friedricianum, Kassel; Kunsthalle Zürich; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunstverein München, Munich; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; SITE Santa Fe; La Bienale de Venezuela, Caracas; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the 1988 Venice Biennale, where she was honored with the Due Mille Prize for best artist. Other awards, grants, and fellowships include Guggenheim Fellowship; Getty Research Institute; the National Endowment of the Arts; Louis Comfort Tiffany Award; and Grant for Visual Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among many others. An extensive survey of her work, The Collections of, was organized in by Brian Wallis for the International Center of Photography, New York, and traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. She is represented in public and private collections internationally, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; International Center of Photography, New York; FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne; Groninger Museum, Groningen; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, among many others. Current and upcoming exhibitions include: Décor:, Andrea Fraser, Louise Lawler, curated by Rebecca Matalon, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (through July 15, 2018). Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Michelle Grabner, Ellen Johnson Gallery, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (from July 14 - September 30, 2018). Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980 s, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (through May 13, 2018). Enemy of my Enemy, curated by Neil Beloufa, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (through May ). Melancholia, curated by Louma Salamé, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels (through August 19, 2018). Picture Industry, curated by Walead Beshty, LUMA Arles / Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France (October 12, January 6, 2019).

3 , Vanity (detail), 2017, BB047

4 Vanity 2017 Vanity mirror and lighting, mirrored vanity table, photograph etched small vanity mirror, digital archival photograph, and movie scripts 72 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 19 inches x x cm Table Height: 31 1/2 inches, 80 cm BB047

5 Mirror Mirror C-print, mirror, and fabric mattes Framed Dimensions (each): 42 x 34 1/4 inches x 87 cm Unique BB068

6 Mirrors were one of the most obvious elements in BB s Reign of Narcissism. Narcissus himself was nothing without his reflection, hardly worth a footnote, never mind his own myth. With his reflection, of course, he became nothing. The symmetry of the mirror is a double-edged sword: things that are not the same when reflected (vampires who disappear, or respectable Victorian matrons who shift into naked harlots) are not safe; but things that do reflect precisely enter into the chaos of obsession and infinite regression, ultimately unable to separate reality from illusion. Susan Tallman, The Collections Of (Göttingen, New York: Steidl International Center of Photography, 2008,), , Mirror Mirror 9, (installation view), 1990, BB067

7 Mirror Mirror C-print, mirror, and fabric mattes Framed Dimensions (each): 42 x 34 1/4 inches x 87 cm Unique BB067

8 , Mirror Mirror 8, (installation view), 1990, BB067

9 Vanity Mirror III (Edwardian) 1989 Two photo-etched mirrors, wooden frames with brass fittings 28.3 x 59 x 7.9 inches 72 x 120 x 20 cm BB063

10 In The Reign of Narcissism, creates a personal museum devoted to her own likeness, which is emblazoned on all of the objects in the collection, including Greek-style sculptures and bas-reliefs, tea sets and chocolates displayed in vitrines, a tombstone, and a published series of books entitled The Complete Works of (1989). These are displayed in a hexagonal parlor-style room that evokes the private museum. A parody of the monomania that can consume collectors, this work is, for the artist, "less related to Freudian narcissism than it is to the narcissistic aspects of artmaking and collecting. -, The Reign of Narcissism from The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect at the Museum of Modern Art, 1999, artist_pages/bloom_reign1.html, The Reign of Narcissism (1989), installation view, The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1999

11 , The Reign of Narcissism (1989), collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

12 , Steinway Piano Carpet (detail), 2010, BB010

13 Steinway Piano Carpet 2010 Wool rug 90 x 72 inches x cm Edition 3 of 15 BB010

14 David Lewis Red Carpet 2009 Archival digital print 14 x 20 1/2 inches 35.6 x 52.1 cm Framed Dimensions: 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 cm Edition of 3, with 2AP BB012

15 , Song: Gap Scales (me too) (detail), 2008, BB013

16 Song: Gap Scales (me too) 2008 Archival digital print Framed Dimensions: 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 cm AP1 (Edition of 3 +2AP) BB013

17 Song of the Waves 2008 Archival digital print and music stand Framed Dimensions: 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 cm Edition of 3 + 2AP BB023

18 , Sitting Song (detail), 2008, BB024

19 Sitting Song 2008 Archival digital print and music stand Framed Dimensions: 24 x 30 inches 61 x 76.2 cm Edition of 3 + 2AP BB024

20 Bloom s manifest interest in decor derives from her background in conceptual art; from her interest in examining the rhetorics and ideologies of presentation as devices that structure meaning. Her expansive, elaborate installations are like conceptualist interior decoration... Her art, while maintaining a qualified pedagogical edge, is never didactic. Rather, the artist provides all the materials for her viewers -- own imaginative re-creations... But by asking the viewer to link ideas and images, Bloom entices us into tangled nets of meaning that may not be immediately apparent from the physical characteristics of the works. David Rimanelli, and Her Art of Entertainment, Artforum, October, 1989., Sitting Song (detail), 2008, BB024