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Jennifer & Kevin McCoy: The Family Show Thur., Nov. 5 – Sun., Dec. 13 Presentation by the artists 6pm Wednesday 11/4 in Klein Lecture Hall in the Center for the Arts Opening reception 5-7pm Thursday 11/5 The Freedman Gallery at Albright College is proud to present works by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, two Brooklyn-based artists who give new meaning to the term collaboration. The exhibition, The Family Show, explores the ordinary lives of parents and artists in extraordinary ways during extraordinary times through film, interactive media and installation works. Experiencing their work will stir up a dialogue about the idea of simulacrum as it pertains to every day lives in modern times. This duo seems to be preoccupied by how we might be fooled, how we look at art and how we look at ourselves. I’ll Replace You, a 2008 16-minute video, is a film in which the McCoys cast 50 actors to play versions of themselves in their daily roles as parent, friend, artist, professor and spouse. The video utilizes cuts to emphasize daily repetition and routine, but also the random nature of these roles for which individuals can seemingly be played by just about anyone. As Chris Chang writes in Film Comment, “What better way to replicate the splintered and prismatic subjectivity of waking life than to hire a bunch of strangers to portray it?” The McCoy’s work has been exhibited at a range of venues in the United States and internationally. Most recently their work was hosted by Gallery Guy Bärtschi in Geneva, pkm Gallery in Beijing, Museum of Modern Art in NYC, University Art Museum in Albany, BFI (British Film Institute) Southbank in London, Postmasters and Artists Space in NYC, and the San Jose Museum of Art. |
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