March 21 - May 11, 2002

MAIN SPACE: Matthew Ritchie Selects: Demonclownmonkey   David Altmejd, Michael Byron, Scott Grodesky, Chris Heenan, Karen Leo, Carl Scholz, Emily Richardson, Paul Wagner   The show frames the artist as the 'demonclownmonkey '- a sort of default receptacle for all the cultural roles of surreal trickster, underminer and general provocateur. The artists featured in this exhibition have created practices that defy easy classification and have evolved ways of working where complexity of practice and opacity of intent create a battleground of complicity and resistance.

David Altmejd Second Werewolf (detail of head in mirrored labyrinth) 2000	Michael Byron One of the Ugliest Objects in America oil on canvas, 40" x 32", 2000

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PROJECT SPACE:
Lot/ek selects: Freecell

PROJECT SPACE 1: Love me Tender, Didier Faustino

Parisian-Portuguese architect Didier Fiuza Faustino mounts his first solo exhibition in New York at Artists Space Project Room. Faustino's project questions the eroticization of space. He will present an installation entitled Love Me Tender prototype (2000), a revised installation of the work shown at Orleans, France this spring at Archilab. Surrounded by colleagues working digitally, Faustino turns his attentions back to the body for his rendition of the thematic of "housing" for Archilab 2001. The field's grappling with global problematics of individual and collective housing yields Faustino's proposition - an object as surrogate for the larger structure of the house, signaling a sado-masochist relationship between occupant, chair and floor - an inventive anti-domicile psycho-sexual proposition for the home. Faustino's mediation on bodily-spatial relations is one of danger and desire. The legs of the metal chair end in weapon-like spokes camouflaged by the festishistic sleek design and high polished patina. Love Me Tender illustrates a brand of architecture and design invested in the politics of space, corporeality, desire and dysfunction. The installation will be punctuated by a video projection entitled "Sex".

PROJECT SPACE 2: Another Country, John Timberlake

In the guise of an amateur hobbyist or a competent model-maker, John Timberlake constructs dioramas depicting English landscapes montaged with simulated painted clouded skies from archival images of British nuclear tests. Culminating in a seductive series of photographs, this body of work developed over the past three years marks Timberlake's engagement with negotiating post-modern figuration in conjunction with notions of the sublime.