Cathouse FUNeral

07/22/2017

LEAVING HOME: Cathouse FUNeral Migrates North
June 24 - September 10, 2017
18 West Main Street, Beacon, New York
Fri-Sun 12-6pm

June 24 - September 10, 2017
18 West Main Street, Beacon, NY

Participating artists:
Michael Ashkinn. Brad Benischek. Davide Cantoni. Anne Deleporte. Ana Delgado. Ellwood C. Dixon. David Dixon. Shadi Harouni. Baseera Khan. Pete Moran. Luisa Rabbia. Farideh Sakhaei. Tariku Shiferaw. Tim Timmy Simonds. Daniel Swanigan Snow. Tribble & Mancenido. Nari Ward

curator: David Dixon
producer: Paola Ochoa
special thanks: Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz

02/09/2017

Coustof Waxman Annex
10 Montgomery Street, NY, NY
January 8 - February 19, 2017
opening reception: Sunday, January 8, 6-9PM hrs: Friday - Sunday 12-6PM

Including work by Davide Cantoni, Farideh Sakhaeifar, Jeannie Weissglass, Camel Collective, Daniel Swanigan Snow, Suzy Spence and Elizabeth Harney, with harvestings from Brad Benischek’s Ghost City (May 2015) and David Dixon’s Cathouse FUNeral.

For more information contact David Dixon: 646-729-4682 or [email protected], CathouseFUNeral.com

01/14/2017

Cathouse FUNeral Harvested
132 10th Ave. @ 18th St. NY, NY
featuring this harvesting from Anne Deleporte's 'My Favorite Horror Show: the news' (May 2016). On view now through February 18th (extended)

12/28/2016

Cathouse FUNeral Harvested
132 10th Ave. @ 18th St. NY, NY

Including work harvested from Brad Benischek's 'Ghost City' (May 2015), Anne Deleporte's My Favorite Horror Show: the news' (May 2016), and several group and solo shows by David Dixon.

Due to certain twists and turns in fate and real estate, Cathouse FUNeral’s distinctive gallery walls have been harvested from its former East Williamsburg location in an ex-funeral home (the building has been sold for development) and reconfigured as “gallery-objects” in Chelsea at 132 10th Avenue.

Along with these three room-sized installations hang many of the gallery’s “harvestings” that have been extracted from the design conditions of the space over its three-year life. Cathouse FUNeral was never returned to its original white walls, rather, the space accumulated layers of color, design, murals and fresco over its twenty group and solo exhibitions. Not every show produced a harvesting – nor were they intentionally made – but when one presented itself, it was duly removed and preserved. There are now over thirty harvestings.

This attitude toward relic, history and transformation has led to the entire gallery space being deconstructed and reconstructed (Frankenstein-like or like Osiris) in an empty and available gallery space in Chelsea. Each of the three gallery-objects is freestanding, arranged and composed of multiple sheets of plastered and painted gypsum board.

For more information contact David Dixon: 646-729-4682 or [email protected]
CathouseFUNeral.com

10/30/2016

September 17 - extended through November 20, 2016

with the work of:

Anne Deleporte, Brad Benischek, Timothy Simonds, Nicola Ginzel, Gregor Neuerer, and David Dixon with Cathouse FUNeral

All exhibition photos by Dario Lasagni

10/27/2016

at Chemistry Creative for Bushwick Open Studios, Oct 1 & 2

with the work of:
Michael Ashkin, Brad Benischek, Leslie Brack, Andy Cross, Anne Deleporte, NIcola Ginzel, Pete Moran, Gregor Neuerer, Shadi Harouni, Farideh Sakhaei, Evan Shinners, Timothy Timothy Timmy Simonds,l Evan Daniel, Daniel Swanigan Snow, Nathan Townes-Anderson, Jeannie Weissglass

Produced by Nathan Townes-Anderson & Chemistry Creative
Lighting by Andre Ferreira
Designed and Curated by David Dixon

Photos by Dario Lasagni Fotografia

07/23/2016

David Dixon's Atavistic Expressionistic Primitivism

Atavistic Expressionistic Primitivism
a solo-show by David Dixon

July 14 - September 11, 2016
general hours: Sat and Sun 12-6PM
and by appointment

Atavistic Expressionistic Primitivism is an installation of four large fresco works (War Painting, Chiesa, Pregnant Man Praying and A.P.E.) within an elaborately constructed environment that references itself (Cathouse FUNeral) and its development as a space for art and culture. The gallery is given over to its founding director, David Dixon, for the third iteration of his annual summer show in this ever- evolving space. Taking its title from a phrase uttered by art historian Benjamin Buchloh, Atavistic Expressionistic Primitivism queries the path from Romanticism to Fascism, addressing altruism, desire, imagination, love and the cultic.

In these demoralizing political times, it is urgent that we examine our allegiances and recognize our responsibility: Is the artistic urge essentially mythic and allegorical? And if so can it still confront reality and offer alternatives to quantitative capital and narrow self- interest? These themes have been echoed in Dixon’s past two summer shows (Heroic Social Worker and DIXIE) which also responded to the gallery space's on-going physical transformations. This third show rounds out the trilogy for an artist seemingly continually engaged, solipsistically, with uncoupling himself from himself.

For more information contact [email protected],
(646)729-4682 or visit CathouseFUNeral.com

L train Graham stop
Meeker/McGuinness exit BQE

06/18/2016

May 13 - June 26, 2016

curated by:

Ella Marder, Suzy Spence & Jeffrey Walkowiak

We begin our Anne Deleporte curatorial art adventure with a quote from the actress and new-age wizard, Shirley MacLaine, "My favorite horror show, the news,” recently heard on a radio news program, making the horror reciprocal, shrieking feedback into our imperfectly conceived astrological news-age: Who gives form to the formless? From whence does creation flow? Is there some news in a gesture, a genesis? or just ever more re-organization? Creation. Curation. Art. The News. Shirley MacLaine…

For Cathouse FUNeral's 18th show we have engaged three curators to organize one artist, Anne Deleporte, an artist already steeped in the Dada tradition of appropriation and contextual transformation. So the question is begged: if everybody is an artist can we all be curators too? Indeed, what is the ratio of artist to curator in NYC today? Did Duchamp fashion us all curators, lugging phenomena from one context to another? Yet sparks do sometimes make fire, for we are not all mathematicians here, the sum should be more than its parts...

But how? Is this magic, illusion? contradicting the laws of conservation of art and energy? The excess is the "extra-extra read all about it!" The new news, or the news of the new. Deleporte, herself, takes newspapers and, first, redacts them of all text, then methodically paints around select images represented therein, a process of editing or of curation, even.

Recently, when asked by a nosey critic if she had read W. Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Deleporte gleefully sneered, "I do not read!!" which one imagines is not true, but the point is well made, she is returning us to some pre or post-linguistic state of image with her redactions, a hieroglyph of signs with no interpretive stone, the image-news undigested by cognition, present and cosmically abstract. Possibly a different kind of horror show than that of the word-news, that of a primal, ontological fear in things that commentary cannot circumvent. Please come see what she and her curators conceive.

On the occasion of this exhibition a collectable newspaper/catalogue/poster will be produced with textual contributions from curators Ella Marder, Suzy Spence and Jeffrey Walkowiak.