Martin Creed's marble floor at Gavin Brown's enterprise.
Over the weekend Gavin Brown’s enterprise inaugurated its brand-new, expanded space with two shows by Martin Creed and Jonathan Horowitz. The exhibition space now occupies an adjacent, former meatpacking facility, Pat LaFrieda Meats.
For his first solo show in the US since a mid-career survey “Feelings” Creed directly working with GBE’s freshly extended gallery. Normally it takes a few years, maybe a decade or two, before one needs to redo the floors of a newly furbished home. Creed, however, took initiative and decided not to wait, redoing the entire floor in stripes of more than 100 different types of marble. The walls were left bare – keeping the focus downward and allowing visitors to directly engage with the work (by walking on it!). In an adjacent room is a moving curtain, Work No. 909, and a film of an erection.
Jonathan Horowitz will also be paying homage to the former Pat LaFrieda Meats with a reinstallation of his 2002 exhibition “Go Vegan!” on view through June 19 at GBE. The show is a multi-room installation including portraits of animals, a video of Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda Eastman McCartney, a tofu sculpture, and over 200 portraits of our favorite kind of vegetarians: celebrities.
Jonathan Horowitz, "Go Vegan!" (May 9th - June 19th, 2010) installation view. Photo by Thomas Mueller, courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise.
