For the Armory Show 2020, Bruce Silverstein Gallery will present four Contemporary artists who employ assembly and appropriation in their practices. This exhibition will feature works by Marjan Teeuwen, Todd Hido, Mishka Henner, and Penelope Umbrico.
Penelope Umbrico’s Sun/Screen/Scan displays the artist’s interest in how technology allows us to revisit early alternative processes. Referencing the screen as a surface of reception and projection, the resulting images revisit techniques used by early masters. Similarly, Mishka Henner uses information available in the public domain (such as Google Earth) to make his images. These two artists re-contextualize available photographs and open new avenues of critical dialogue.
Todd Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Any narrative inferred from his work is entirely a construct of the viewer’s imagination heightened by Hido’s power of sequence and his fascination with a cinematic style. His landscapes nearly always seem fraught with evocation, the weight of something about to be undone, or having recently occurred. Hido speaks of his works in the language of memory, so that the holes and patches of an image are inherent to its finished composition.
Following her first solo exhibition in France, new works from Marjan Teeuwen’s Destroyed House series will be featured. Teeuwen transforms dilapidated, once forgotten spaces into environments that become spectacular and awe-inspiring. Photographing these site-specific works renders Teeuwen's process of creating order out of chaos all the more meaningful, as the images are the only surviving components from the entire project.
