Downbeat: Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery
Downbeat: Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery
Marian Goodman New York | 13 July – 18 August 2023
Curated by Guillermo Rodríguez
Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce Downbeat, an exhibition about Denniston Hill, the artist residency founded by artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer and architect Lawrence Chua. Downbeat features alumni and collaborators of Denniston Hill’s residency program, including Rosa Barba, Pelenakeke Brown, Renee Gladman, Autumn Knight, Zoe Leonard, Joseph Liatela, Emma McNally, Maia Cruz Palileo, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Carlos Reyes, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Joseph Liatela
Heaven's Gate, 2021
Industrial PVC curtain, carnations, MDF, steel
Soundtrack by Juliana Barwick
144 x 134 x 120 in. (365.8 x 340.4 x 304.8 cm)
Joseph Liatela
Heaven's Gate, 2021
Industrial PVC curtain, carnations, MDF, steel
Soundtrack by Juliana Barwick
144 x 134 x 120 in. (365.8 x 340.4 x 304.8 cm)
Joseph Liatela
Heaven's Gate, 2021
Industrial PVC curtain, carnations, MDF, steel
Soundtrack by Juliana Barwick
144 x 134 x 120 in. (365.8 x 340.4 x 304.8 cm)
In Autumn Knight's Lottery Tickets, 2023, a participant takes on the “work” of the mark making.
Flat: 72 x 300 in. (182.9 x 762 cm)
Flat: 72 x 300 in. (182.9 x 762 cm)
Flat: 72 x 300 in. (182.9 x 762 cm)
Flat: 72 x 300 in. (182.9 x 762 cm)
69 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (176.5 x 64.8 cm); 69 1/2 x 25 in. (176.5 x 63.5 cm); 69 1/2 x 30 in. (176.5 x 76.2 cm); 69 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (176.5 x 74.9 cm)
69 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (176.5 x 64.8 cm); 69 1/2 x 25 in. (176.5 x 63.5 cm); 69 1/2 x 30 in. (176.5 x 76.2 cm); 69 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (176.5 x 74.9 cm)
27 5/8 x 24 3/4 in. (70.2 x 62.9 cm); 31 5/8 x 25 1/4 in. (80.3 x 64.1 cm)
In Weerasethakul’s short film, Vapour (2015), a mysterious cloud—the breath of a landscape—completely engulfs a mountain village in Northern Thailand for one day. The resulting melee is a metaphor for the dangerous ways that inharmonious ecosystems can swallow each other.
The exhibition welcomes viewers into a gathering space akin to Denniston Hill’s campus, where a multi-voiced chorus of artists is held together by an atmospheric ethos of “creleizure,” as Hélio Oiticica termed “creative leisure time.” By syncopating socially conditioned notions of time with the more fluid and individualized (or entangled) pace required by creativity, the works presented share notions of rest and deceleration as essential components of artmaking.
Downbeat is curated by Guillermo Rodríguez, a 2022 Curatorial Research Fellow at Independent Curators International (ICI). Rodríguez’s fellowship centered on research for El Contrato Natural, an exhibition-as-ecosystem contrasting the University of Puerto Rico's botanical gardens with artworks that operate in symbiosis with the natural environment that hosts them.
For further information, please visit our website mariangoodman.com, or please contact Marian Goodman Gallery New York at: 212 977 7160. For information on Denniston Hill please contact Megan Steinman, Executive Director, megan@dennistonhill.org, 845-434-2312.
About Denniston Hill
Denniston Hill is a residency for artists and creative visionaries nestled inside 220 acres of land traditionally tended by the Esopus people of the Lenapehoking, now known as the southern Catskill mountains in Sullivan County, New York. Since 2004, our residencies have provided free room and board, private studios, a shared wood shop, a community garden, connections to local artists and farmers, and tools for communal living to over 200 artists from around the world. We pay residents a small stipend to help cover the costs of everyday life, and we cover roundtrip travel to our campus. Most importantly, Denniston Hill provides a sanctuary where artists can reconnect with nature, commune with each other, breathe deeply, and just BE.
About the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Fellowship
ICI’s Curatorial Research Fellowships reflect the organization’s commitment to the advancement of new knowledge and practices. The program supports curators’ research, travel, and the development of their professional networks, promoting experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement in the field. Expanded in 2021 with the support of the Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor, the program aims to strengthen and expand educational and research opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) curators, empowering and sustaining a more diverse generation of creative professionals and forging international collaborative networks.