Statement: “Well, I love all this mixture of things that people might interpret in various ways that I didn’t intend,” Ed Rossbach observed several years before his death. “I think it’s sort of amusing to have people misunderstand things and take things seriously that you mean not to be serious. Of course I don’t persuade myself that people think much about these things at all; I think they just sort of pass before their eyes. May-be somebody will think a little bit about it, but I don’t think anybody is very concerned about what the meaning is of what I’m doing. I think it’s very unusual for people to look seriously at what someone else is offering as a work of art. You’re very much doing it for yourself. And I suppose that’s the essence of what I’m doing….” From: Musings on a Gallery Project for Fiberworks, 1979.                                                                                                              Ed Rossbach

34r BOBBIN LACE   WITH OPENINGS   plastic tubing, bobbin lace  20.5” x 44.5”, 1970   $7,000

Catalog #6 Ed Rossbach Katherine Westphal click for more information	Catalog #17 10TH WAVE PART 1: New Baskets and Freestanding Sculpture click for more information	Catalog #18 10TH WAVE PART II: New Textiles and Fiber Wall Art click for more information	Catalog #21 ART OF SUBSTANCE click for more information
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YOUR GOLD TEETH II Curated by Todd Levin Marianne Boesky Gallery June 19 – August 15, 2009 509 West 24th Street New York, New York 10011 USA Tel: (212) 680 - 9889 Fax: (212) 680 - 9897 Summer Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm www.marianneboeskygallery.com Your Gold Teeth II features more than 40 artists, ranging from Bruce Nauman, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Yoko Ono to Ed Rossbach, Françoise Grossen and Diane Itter. According to curator, Todd Levin, the artists he chose for inclusion in Your Gold Teeth II, "each have an affinity for the controlled yet significant gesture, for the performed essence; the result of a concentrated internal selection from a vast repertoire of expressive options. This stripped-down approach to craft often obscures a wider technical command than is immediately apparent. If you’re looking for order, you will find it. But even when these artists systematically subvert themselves for the devious pleasure of it, they still maintain a level of control where the strange can be made familiar - and vice versa. By eschewing displays of readily evident virtuosity, the artist gains the advantage of a kind of mystery. Within this group exhibition one senses that boundaries are being tested, and rules of art conduct are being subverted – not subverted where craft is cast aside in favor of studied simplicity, but subverted by craft itself. On the contrary, there exists a ‘muchness’ to a great deal of the work in this exhibition. When the cultural bar has been lowered recently to a point of absurdity, the only revenge worthy of the name comes from reestablishing standards lost to laziness and expediency. A good jazz improviser can make one note do the job of many. Incomplete utterances can fully communicate an idea. Imply, don’t state. Artwork doesn’t have a necessary end goal. Ideas, rendered in these artists’ distinctive lo-fi argot, feel aired out and simplified without being rendered trivial. A sense of satisfactory unsatisfaction remains. The artwork featured in Your Gold Teeth II is about the opening up of ideas and approaches, not the pin-point sharpening of them. "

29r SUSPENSION, Ed Rossbach jute and horsehair lace, 65” x 44”, 1970, $7,000

 

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