press release - Galerie Jeanroch Dard

JEANROCHDARD
80 BOULEVARD BEAUMARCHAIS - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
67 RUE DE LA RÉGENCE I 1000 BRUXELLES I BELGIUM
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DAVE HARDY
Definitions of plain
28.01.2016 - 05.03.2016
JEANROCHDARD
80 BOULEVARD BEAUMARCHAIS - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
67 RUE DE LA RÉGENCE I 1000 BRUXELLES I BELGIUM
WWW.JEANROCHDARD.COM I [email protected]
DAVE HARDY
Definitions of plain
28.01.2016 - 05.03.2016
DEFINITIONS OF PLAIN
a level tract of country.
an extent of level ground or meadowland.
a level expanse of sea or sky.
an open space on which a battle is fought.
a level or flat surface, a plane.
a flat horizontal area.
a design, a plan.
plain cloth, a kind of flannel.
a plain knitting stitch.
an expression of pain, grief, or lamentation; plaint
free from elevations and depressions
free from obstructions or interruptions
of one’s line of sight
free from roughness or unevenness of surface
open in behavior, guileless, frank
outspoken, straightforward, blunt
free from ambiguity, evasion or subterfuge; direct
ordinary, not outstanding, not distinguished by special qualities or abilities
simple and unpretentious in dress and manners; unpretentious
of ordinary appearance; not beautiful or pretty; homely; ugly
clearly, distinctly, openly
levelly, evenly
simply, unequivocally, absolutely
full, plenary, entire, perfect
full or complete in number or extent
complain
utter lamentations, give expressions to sorrow
tell tales, inform against
emit a plaintive or mournful sound
say in a querulous voice
—The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
JEANROCHDARD
80 BOULEVARD BEAUMARCHAIS - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
67 RUE DE LA RÉGENCE I 1000 BRUXELLES I BELGIUM
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En créant des sculptures à partir de plaques de verre, de mousse, de métal, de ciment et de divers
objets trouvés, Dave Hardy compose des sculptures à l’équilibre apparemment précaire, tel un
défi intentionnellement donné à la gravité. Se distinguant par des aller-retours constants entre des
lectures littérales et allégoriques, ces oeuvres sont autant résolument matérialistes qu’habitées
par une certaine dimension humaine. Plus précisément, leur fragilité force le spectateur à les
confronter tels de véritables corps dans l’espace. Comme Dave Hardy le dit lui même, elles sont
des «monuments abandonnés s’élevant les uns contre les autres... tels des corps engagés dans
une lutte abjecte contre la gravité et le temps.»
Dave Hardy est né en 1969, il vit et travaille à Brooklyn.
Il obtient un MFA à l’Université de Yale en 2004 et un BA à la Brown University en 1992. Ses
oeuvres ont récemment été présentées dans des expositions individuelles chez Wentrup Galerie,
Berlin (2014); Churner and Churner, NYC (2014); Regina Rex, NYC (2013); et Art in General (2009).
Son travail a également été inclu dans des expositions de groupe à Invisible-Exports, New York
(2015); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2014); Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2013); The Flag Art
Foundation (2009), mais aussi au MoMA PS1 and Sculpture Center, New York. Le travail de Dave
HArdy a été le sujet d’articles dans des revues telles qu’Artforum, Art in America, le Wall Street
Journal, Frise, Huffington Post, Flash Art, L Magazine et le New York Times. En 2011, il fut lauréat
de la bourse de la New York Foundation for the Arts, il a également été assistant de Peinture et
de Sculpture à l’École Skowhegan en 2004. Son travail sera exposé au Queens Museum de NewYork au printemps 2016.
Creating sculptures out of such materials as sheets of glass, foam, metal, cement, and various
found objects, Dave Hardy composes his sculptures’ seemingly precarious poise as an intentionally
engineered defiance of gravity. Distinguished by a constant shuttle between literal and allegorical
readings, Hardy’s artworks are both resolutely materialist and infused with a human scale and,
more precisely, a human fragility that forces the viewer to confront them as bodies in space. They
are, as Dave Hardy has written, “abandoned monuments pushing up against each other... like
bodies in an abject struggle with gravity and time.”
Dave Hardy was born in 1969, and received an MFA from Yale University in 2004, and a BA from
Brown University in 1992. Hardy has had recent solo exhibitions Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2014); at
Churner and Churner, NYC (2014); Regina Rex, NYC (2013); and Art in General (2009). His work
has been included in group exhibitions at Invisible-Exports, New York (2015); Bortolami Gallery,
New York (both 2014); Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2013); The Flag Art Foundation (2009),
as well as at MoMA PS1 and Sculpture Center, New York. Hardy’s work has been the subject of
reviews in Artforum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, Frieze, the Huffington Post, Flash
Art, L Magazine, and the New York Times, among others. In 2011 he was awarded a fellowship
from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and in 2004 attended the Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture. His work will be exhibited at the Queens Museum, NYC, in the spring of
2016. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
JEANROCHDARD
80 BOULEVARD BEAUMARCHAIS - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
67 RUE DE LA RÉGENCE I 1000 BRUXELLES I BELGIUM
WWW.JEANROCHDARD.COM I [email protected]
Born in 1969 in Sharon, Connecticut, lives and works in Brooklyn, New-York (US)
Solo exhibitions
2016
Solo show, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels (BE)
2014
Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (DEU)
The Hairy Hand, Churner and Churner, New York (US)
Town and Country, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York (US)
2013
A House With Gates, Regina Rex, Queens, New York (US)
Ideas are Executions: Dave Hardy and Siebren Versteeg, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, Florida (US)
Skin and Bones, 247365, with Pooneh Magazehe, Brooklyn (US)
2012
Hum, 92nd Street Y Tribeca, curated by Carrie Springer, New York (US)
John Almanza and Dave Hardy, Regina Rex, Queens, New York (US)
2010
Spirit Tours 11, Recess Activities, New York (US)
2009
It’s grey, it’s grey, Art in General (solo exhibition/new commissions program), New York (US)
2008
Lower Case, La Mama Galleria, New York (US)
2006
Tiny Vortices, living room D lyx, Malmo (SWE)
2004
Advances in Exterior Siding, Southern Exposure, San Francisco (US)
Group shows
2016
Queens Museum, NYC (US)
2014
S|2 Save It For Later, curated by Ryan Steadman, Sotheby’s, New York (US)
Marquee Moon, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (US)
Summer & sUMMER, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami and Detroit (US)
A Chromatic Loss, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami, New York (US)
Still Moving, curated by Allison Weisberg, The James Hotel, New York (US)
2013
Object Implied, Emerson Dorsch, Miami (US)
Weird Science, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (US)
2011
Entanglement, Art Blog Art Blog and Regina Rex Galleries, New York (US)
Pretty Vacant (as Spirit Tours), Brooklyn (US)
NYFA Artists at Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn (US)
2010
To Believe (as Spirit Tours), Visual Aids/La Mama Galleria, New York (US)
2009
Re-Accession/For Sale by Owner, The Flag Foundation, curated by Stephanie Roach, New York (US)
Life Goes On, Parlour, curated by Colleen Asper, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2008
Un Balance, curated by Katherine Rashid, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (US)
2007
Art in the Parks: Celebrating 40 Years—1967-2007, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn (US)
The Line of Time and the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman and Wallspace, New York (US)
2006
FUTURE 86 (as Spirit Tours), Parksville, NY (US)
2005
Spirit Tours 2005, Polvo Gallery, Chicago (US)
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition 2005, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (US)
AIM 25, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx (US)
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, The Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (US)
Greater New York 2005, PS1/MoMA, Queens, New York (US)
Factory Direct: New Haven, Artspace, New Haven, Conn. (US)
2004
Sleight of Hand, Hudson Clearing (at Lemon Sky Miami), Miami (US)
Skowhegan Projects (as Spirit Tours), Skowhegan State Fair, Skowhegan, Maine (US)
Colony, Hudson Clearing, New York (US)
Yale Sculpture Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. (US)
2003
Crosstown Traffic, J. S. Ely House, New Haven, Conn. (US)
On The Trail, New Haven, Conn. (US)
Summer Artist Residency Group Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, Norfolk, Conn. (US)
Beinecke Plaza Project, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (US)
2002
MFA 2004 Group Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. (US)
åEvac, Ajax Plastics, San Francisco (US)
Bay Area Disfigurative, Ajax Plastics, San Francisco (US)
Tender, Southern Exposure, San Francisco (US)