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Artist Statement
The pictures I paint function in the tradition of romantic storytelling and deal with people who inhabit a realm of New Androgynous Performance; people who refuse to locate themselves within a specific archetype or body. The appropriation of art history references creates a structure through which to explore my own experience, real and imagined. I paint myself and my friends. With this gesture, I deliberately throw myself into the chaotic power struggle between viewer, subject and painter. Perhaps these portraits are collaborations. They are a celebration of alternative forms of identification, and the process by which I paint them is inherently incorporated into this discussion.
The clashing of elements that show up in my work is mirrored in my process. I will mix a color obsessively, grossly and fetishistically perfecting it. But my palate is always overrun with colors, so any new color I mix has only a few strokes of purity before it gets contaminated and changes, therefor depriving a single color the reality to establish any kind of color hegemony. Although my paintings are created using a generally traditional process, it is as suddenly changeable as the subject which it aims to (re)produce, highlighting a direct openness towards and a searching for the fluidity of identity.
The pictures I paint function in the tradition of romantic storytelling and deal with people who inhabit a realm of New Androgynous Performance; people who refuse to locate themselves within a specific archetype or body. The appropriation of art history references creates a structure through which to explore my own experience, real and imagined. I paint myself and my friends. With this gesture, I deliberately throw myself into the chaotic power struggle between viewer, subject and painter. Perhaps these portraits are collaborations. They are a celebration of alternative forms of identification, and the process by which I paint them is inherently incorporated into this discussion.
The clashing of elements that show up in my work is mirrored in my process. I will mix a color obsessively, grossly and fetishistically perfecting it. But my palate is always overrun with colors, so any new color I mix has only a few strokes of purity before it gets contaminated and changes, therefor depriving a single color the reality to establish any kind of color hegemony. Although my paintings are created using a generally traditional process, it is as suddenly changeable as the subject which it aims to (re)produce, highlighting a direct openness towards and a searching for the fluidity of identity.
CV
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
BFA, Bard College 2007
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
Forthcoming in 2011
Draw Walk Dance, (together with Ulrike Müller) The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Curated by Helen Molesworth)
2010
Mural/wall painting: I am a feMENist, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
In Shadow Box, Galerie Crytal Ball, Berlin, Germany
B.Y.O.P., Anjou Bijou, North Adams, MA
St-Gervais / Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2009
Ridykeulous Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York, NY (Curators: A.L. Steiner & Nicole Eisenman)
Girl Monster, Breite Str. 78, Hamburg, Germany
Sessions, Taxter & Spengeman, New York, NY
If You Can’t Find A Partner, Use a Wooden Chair, American Donut, Miami, FL
DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours), Museum 52, New York, NY
2008
Passwords Cycle 5, Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
Duck Soup, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
Butch in the Bog (She Tends To Flag On the Left), (Together with Ginger Brooks Takahashi) Leslie Loheman Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Ridykeulous: At Least It’s Not Abstract, The Kitchen, New York, NY (Curators: A.L. Steiner & Nicole Eisenman)
Small Works For a Big Change SRLP, Sarah Metzer, New York, NY
Future 86 24 Hours of Art in the Catskills (together with Ulrike Müller, A.L. Steiner, and Dean Daderko) Catskill, NY
BFA Thesis Show, Bard UBS, Red Hook, NY
2006
Mine, (together with Zak Kitnick, Chris Rise, Brel Froebe) The Old Gym, Annondale-On-Hudson, NY
Salt of the Valley, Doublevee Gallery, Hudson, NY
Performances:
2009
Dome Colony, Hogan Community, (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts), X- Initiative, New York, NY
A Drawing Circle! (together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts) Ludlow 38 Gallery, New York, NY
The Collection of Silence, (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts) , Dia Art Foundation, Hispanic Society, New York, NY (curators: Eileen Myles)
NY Art Book Fair, The Classroom (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts), PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
2008
Over-Animated Panel Discussion, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (A Ridykeulous event)
Making It Together, Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY (Ridykeulous: That Looks Really Cute On You)
Projects:
Friends of the Fine Arts, a Life Drawing group, organized together with Ulrike Müller, 2008 - Present.
Video Performance for Performers Only: Uh-Oh Topia, together with Lola Sinreich
Publications:
Sessions : Con Vers Sensations (once with A.L. Steiner and once with Ulrike Müller), Katerina Llanes 2009
LTTR Positively Nasty Issue 5, 2007
Selected Bibliography:
Cotter, Holland. “Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea.” The New York Times. December 4, 2009.
Russell, Christopher. “Don’t Look Back” Artillery. May 20, 2007
Awards
2006
Ellen Battel Stoecke Fellowship
Residency at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk Connecticut
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
BFA, Bard College 2007
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
Forthcoming in 2011
Draw Walk Dance, (together with Ulrike Müller) The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Curated by Helen Molesworth)
2010
Mural/wall painting: I am a feMENist, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
In Shadow Box, Galerie Crytal Ball, Berlin, Germany
B.Y.O.P., Anjou Bijou, North Adams, MA
St-Gervais / Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2009
Ridykeulous Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York, NY (Curators: A.L. Steiner & Nicole Eisenman)
Girl Monster, Breite Str. 78, Hamburg, Germany
Sessions, Taxter & Spengeman, New York, NY
If You Can’t Find A Partner, Use a Wooden Chair, American Donut, Miami, FL
DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours), Museum 52, New York, NY
2008
Passwords Cycle 5, Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
Duck Soup, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
Butch in the Bog (She Tends To Flag On the Left), (Together with Ginger Brooks Takahashi) Leslie Loheman Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Ridykeulous: At Least It’s Not Abstract, The Kitchen, New York, NY (Curators: A.L. Steiner & Nicole Eisenman)
Small Works For a Big Change SRLP, Sarah Metzer, New York, NY
Future 86 24 Hours of Art in the Catskills (together with Ulrike Müller, A.L. Steiner, and Dean Daderko) Catskill, NY
BFA Thesis Show, Bard UBS, Red Hook, NY
2006
Mine, (together with Zak Kitnick, Chris Rise, Brel Froebe) The Old Gym, Annondale-On-Hudson, NY
Salt of the Valley, Doublevee Gallery, Hudson, NY
Performances:
2009
Dome Colony, Hogan Community, (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts), X- Initiative, New York, NY
A Drawing Circle! (together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts) Ludlow 38 Gallery, New York, NY
The Collection of Silence, (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts) , Dia Art Foundation, Hispanic Society, New York, NY (curators: Eileen Myles)
NY Art Book Fair, The Classroom (Together with Ulrike Müller and Friends of the Fine Arts), PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
2008
Over-Animated Panel Discussion, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (A Ridykeulous event)
Making It Together, Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY (Ridykeulous: That Looks Really Cute On You)
Projects:
Friends of the Fine Arts, a Life Drawing group, organized together with Ulrike Müller, 2008 - Present.
Video Performance for Performers Only: Uh-Oh Topia, together with Lola Sinreich
Publications:
Sessions : Con Vers Sensations (once with A.L. Steiner and once with Ulrike Müller), Katerina Llanes 2009
LTTR Positively Nasty Issue 5, 2007
Selected Bibliography:
Cotter, Holland. “Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea.” The New York Times. December 4, 2009.
Russell, Christopher. “Don’t Look Back” Artillery. May 20, 2007
Awards
2006
Ellen Battel Stoecke Fellowship
Residency at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk Connecticut
Tarot Reading. 24”X36”, Oil on canvas, 2010
Eviction Notice, 3.5ftX6ft, Oil on canvas, 2010
MEN (Who Am I to Feel So Free?), 24”X36”, Oil on canvas, 2010
Oil on canvas 72”X36” 2009
Oil on canvas. 6’X8’2010
Full view of wall painting at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte. acrylic on wall. 29’ 5” X 16’ 2”, 2009
View of wall painting at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte. acrylic on wall. 29’ 5” X 16’ 2” 2009
View of wall painting at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte. acrylic on wall. 29’ 5” X 16’ 2” 2009
View of wall painting at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte. acrylic on wall. 29’ 5” X 16’ 2” 2009
Gee. Oil on Canvas. 15"X18” 2009
Ink and water color on paper. 20"X30” 2008
Miss Behaving, Oil on canvas. 60"X60” 2007