DERECONSTRUCTION seeks to consider and conflate the physical and psychological processes of fragmentation  (“deconstruction”) and reassembly (“reconstruction”). Exploring relationships between “collage,” “assemblage” and “constructivism”—as art historical categories and also as contemporaneous emotional and social conditions—the exhibition embraces a broad range of approaches and methodologies, including painting, sculpture, drawing, text, tapestry, photography, and video.

 

DERECONSTRUCTION brings together an international and inter-generational group of artists whose work explores—and explodes—vernacular materials and forms. Self-consciously located at a threshold between abstraction and representation, the works in the exhibition variously consider the entanglements between “interiority” and “exteriority”; between the “organic” and the “inorganic”; and between the acts of  “rupture” and “reconciliation.”

 

This publication accompanied the 2006 group exhibition of the same title at Gladstone Gallery. It is a booklet that includes a text by Matthew Higgs and contributions from the participating artists:

 

Rita Ackermann

Markus Amm

Alexandra Bircken

Carter

Steven Claydon

Bruce Conner

Vincent Fecteau

Will Fowler

Christopher Knowles

Udomsak Krisanamis

Takeshi Murata

AR Penck

Eileen Quinlan

Lucas Samaras

Judith Scott

Frances Stark

Linder Sterling

John Stezaker

B. Wurtz