a curator's office in a micro gallery setting
at the micro gallery
Jennifer Dalton
Contemporary Art According to Jen
In her witty PowerPoint presentation,
Contemporary Art According to Jen, New York artist Jennifer Dalton assumes the
role of obsessively cataloging curator in an office-appropriate technological
medium. In her Artforum review of Dalton’s recent exhibition at Plus Ultra Gallery
in Brooklyn, critic Frances Richard writes, "Decorated with painfully cheesy
clip art, the PowerPoint windows cycle through a version of art-world categorization,
with headings like "The Artist as Loser" or "The Artist as Documentarian" and
“Have I Mentioned I Often Have Sex?" Beneath each heading Dalton provides a bulleted
list of contemporary 'anointed' artists that she feels is appropriate to the
topic. Sometimes respectful, sometimes sarcastic, but never quite reaching a
bitchy pitch, the work offers a playful inventory as filtered through one individual’s
curatorial assessment.
Dalton's lists of artists owe much to her own experience writing art criticism
and her inclination towards appraisals and assessments of art world insider practices.
A young Brooklyn-based artist, she has had solo exhibitions at Plus Ultra Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY and Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been featured
in group exhibitions at Clementine Gallery, New York, NY; Visual Arts Gallery,
New York, NY; Marvelli Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Chicago Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, IL; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Oni Gallery,
Boston, MA; Kunstraum fur Zeit, Linz, Austria; White Columns, New York, NY; Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore, MD; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY; Miller-Durazo,
Los Angeles, CA; Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY and Rush Arts, New York,
NY.
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More information about Jennifer Dalton can be found at www.jenniferdalton.com.