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Time Out New York, December 13-26, 2012
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Rich Blint, 'Bodies Bigger Than Shadows'
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NOAH DAVIS

DERRICK ADAMS

ZACHARY FABRI

RICO GATSON

ADLER GUERRIER

LYLE ASHTON HARRIS

DURON JACKSON

JAYSON KEELING

DEANA LAWSON

YASHUA KLOS

KAMBUI OLUJIMI

EBONY G. PATTERSON

ROBERT PRUITT

JACOLBY SATTERWHITE
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BIGGER THAN SHADOWS
Curated by Rich Blint and Ian Cofre
IMAGE: Bigger Than Shadows, 2012, installation view. Photo: Carly Gaebe HI-RES
On View: November 10 — December 22, 2012
Reception: November 10, 2012   6-8pm
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DODGEgallery is pleased to present Bigger Than Shadows, a group exhibition co-curated by Rich Blint and Ian Cofre.

Bigger Than Shadows is a group exhibition that explores recent work on the black male body that refashions, riffs on, or re-inflects dominant constructions about the figure known as the black male. Black maleness conjures a host of contradictory associations in the American imagination—from questions about historical morality, creative virtuosity, inherent pathology, to notions of outsized masculinity and, paradoxically, the very absence of masculine authority. Bigger Than Shadows aims to clear space for a timely exchange among emerging and established artists about contemporary and future-oriented visual re-presentations of racialized corporeality—of the black male body in the flesh. Participating artists include Derrick Adams, Noah Davis, Rico Gatson, Adler Guerrier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Duron Jackson, Jayson Keeling, Yashua Klos, Deana Lawson, Kambui Olujimi, Ebony G. Patterson, Robert Pruitt, Jacolby Satterwhite and Zachary Fabri.

Duron Jackson will present a new sculpture titled Bones Crusade, 2012, which expands on his previous work on incarceration, surveillance, and the influence and distortionary effects of these systems. Other sculptural works by Rico Gatson and Adler Guerrier draw from multiple references, engaging the urban landscape and its impression on the body through abstractions of language and perception.

The revelatory photographic contributions from Lyle Ashton Harris, Jayson Keeling, and Deana Lawson are documents of subjects that defy immediate categorization. Harris's and Lawson's examinations of Southern subcultures join Keeling, who is working with a bust of his own face cast by John Ahearn, rephotographing the sculpture to draw attention to subtleties of form through distance.

Yashua Klos's constructions are both fragile and monumental, negotiating aspects of identity through fragmentation, collage, and camouflage. Similarly reconstructed, an array of visual styles will be on display including a contribution from The Human Structure Series (2011) by Derrick Adams, an example of Ebony Patterson's Species Series (2011), a new, large-scale drawing by Houston-based artist Robert Pruitt, a quiet and ambiguous figurative painting by Los Angeles-based Noah Davis, new work by Kambui Olujimi, and a virtual, Hieronymus Bosch-esque video tableau titled Country Ball, 1989-2012, by Jacolby Satterwhite that is built from memory rather than morality.