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Opening Reception | Steve Wolfe: The Brutality of Fact

Friday, September 6, 2024, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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An exhibition of works by Steve Wolfe presented alongside materials from the artist’s archive.

The installation will highlight a cohesive selection of Wolfe’s meticulously crafted replicas of timeworn books, well-used vinyl records, and works on paper, which are studies for his three-dimensional pieces. Wolfe was at the center of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene of the 1980s, and his first studio was located near the Tribeca gallery. Working in the trompe-l’œil tradition, he made his detailed sculptural simulacra through a combination of techniques such as exacting drawings, screen printing, and metal casting. Wolfe’s practice was considered and labor intensive, and perhaps the most scrupulous aspect of his process was his choice of subject matter. The cultural artifacts that he selected to recreate reflect his own sensibilities, as well as those of his generation. Featuring Beat Generation and counter-culture provocateurs such as Jack Kerouac, musical icons like The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, literary legends Truman Capote, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Leo Tolstoy, as well as art world mainstays such as Piet Mondrian and Man Ray, the works in Wolfe’s oeuvre represent some of the most important writers, artists, and thinkers of the 20th century. His works pointedly illustrate traces of the object’s consumption in vivid detail – creases, folds, tears, bookmarks, stains, and scratches are the physical markings of the interaction that occurs when a book is read or a record is played.

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