specific object / david platzker
presents
Screw You.
an exhibition to be held at Susan Inglett Gallery
May 31 - July 27, 2012
Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to expose SCREW YOU., an exhibition that shines a light on the intercourse of counter culture publishing, tabloid pornography and the art world which formed a union during the creatively fertile years of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition will be on view at Susan Inglett Gallery from May 31 to July 27, 2012.
SCREW YOU. draws its title and inspiration from the notorious pornographic tabloid
Screw: The Sex Review, which came onto the New York scene November 29, 1968.
Initially as a sly means to justify prurient sexual content,
Screw and like-minded publications included literary and fine art to skirt the censors. While not a particularly successful subterfuge, as the editors were prosecuted repeatedly throughout the early years, the juxtaposition made for titillating journalism.
Nestling porn and fine art side by side between the sheets, content ranged from spreads of large breasted women illuminating such erudite articles as "The Art of Buying Dirty Books" to centerfolds conceived by and featuring artist Yayoi Kusama.
Issues of
Screw throughout the late 1960s and the early 1970s embraced a cultural breadth spanning art, advertising and editorial. Contributors from the realm of visual culture included leading movers and shakers Dan Graham, Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A journalistic standard was set with the inclusion of content addressing the important issues of the day such as freedom of speech, while simultaneously raising pornographic standards with the quality of imagery.
While
Screw,
Kiss,
Pleasure, and Kusama's own tabloid,
Kusama Presents an Orgy of Nudity, Love, Sex Beauty, played to the strengths of the genre, contemporaneous periodicals such as
New York Review of Sex and Politics,
Other Scenes,
The East Village Other and artist Les Levine's
Culture Hero : A Fanzine of Stars of the Super World favored a merging of literature and art in addition to its pansexual content. Notable contributors to these loftier publications included the writers Gregory Battcock, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski and artists Brigid Berlin, R. Crumb, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneemann, Bob Stanley, Walasse Ting, and Tadanori Yokoo, along with many others working in the realm of sex and sexual identity.
SCREW YOU. unsheathes the aforementioned periodicals, rescuing them from the literal and metaphorical trash bin to sit side by side with the original art and films that filled the page and informed an era. These publications open a window onto an enlightened generation and the art and influences which gave rise to the counterculture.
The exhibition will be on view at Susan Inglett Gallery located at 522 West 24th Street. Summer hours: Monday to Friday 10 AM to 6 PM, closed Saturday & Sunday.
Press for Screw You.
Read Carolina A. Miranda's review of the exhibition, "This Week: Must-See Arts in the City," at:
culture.wnyc.org/blogs/gallerina/2012/may/30/datebook-may-30/#
Read the
Time Out preview of the exhibition at:
www.timeout.com/newyork/art/screw-you
Read Steven Heller's "Orgies and Polka Dots," from
imprint at:
imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/orgies-and-polka-dots
Read Steven Heller's "Yayoi Kusama: The Polka-Dot-Loving Art Legend I Initially Mistook for Crazy," from
The Atlantic at:
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/yayoi-kusama-the-polka-dot-loving-art-legend-i-initially-mistook-for-crazy/257537/
Read Will Heinrich's "What You See Is What You Get," from
The Observer : Gallerist NY at:
galleristny.com/2012/06/what-you-see-is-what-you-get-tauba-auerbach-float-at-paula-cooper-gallery-and-screw-you-at-susan-inglett-gallery
Howard Halle's "The best of the week in art. Top five shows: June 7–June 13, 2012," from
Time Out : New York at:
www.timeout.com/newyork/art/top-five-shows-june-7june-13-2012
Chloe Wyma's "One-Line Reviews: Our Staff's Pithy Takes on Gallery Shows by Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, and More," from
artinfo.com at:
www.artinfo.com/news/story/807628/one-line-reviews-our-staffs-pithy-takes-on-gallery-shows-by-tauba-auerbach-shepard-fairey-and-more
Jim Long's "History of Freak Flags Flies at Susan Inglett Gallery," from
New York Press at:
nypress.com/history-of-freak-flags-flies-at-susan-inglett-gallery/
"Goings on About Town: Art, 'Screw You,'" in
The New Yorker at:
www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/screw-you-inglett
"'SCREW YOU' GROUP EXHIBITION at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York,'" Photos and text Juliana Balestin in
purple DIARY at:
purple.fr/diary/entry/susan-inglett-s-new-exhibition-screw-you-new-york-3/article
"Screw You at Susan Inglett Gallery," on
Printeresting at:
www.printeresting.org/2012/07/04/screw-you-at-susan-inglett-gallery
Ken Johnson's "David Platker [Screw You.]," from
The New York Times at:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/arts/design/david-platzker.html
Angela Ashmman's review of "Screw You." from
The Village Voice at:
www.voiceplaces.com/screw-you-new-york-3568502-e/
"Museum and Gallery Listings for July 13-19" from
The New York Times at:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-july-13-19.html
Read Steven Heller's "The New York Review of What?," from
imprint at:
imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-new-york-review-of-what/
For additional information, please contact Susan Inglett Gallery at 212.647.9111, fax 212.647.9333 or
[email protected].
Or, Specific Object / David Platzker at
[email protected]
