September 9 - October 14, 2023
From Basket Books & Art:
“Basket Books & Art is pleased to present The Red Show, a solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Adam Marnie consisting of a selection of works in sculpture, painting, and photography, variously linked by the color red. The Red Show is on view September 9 – October 14, 2023, with an opening reception on September 9 from 2–5pm.
With The Red Show, Marnie returns to artmaking after a studio hiatus of several years. The exhibition stretches out in different directions, and the works—most of which were made over the last month—are immediate, formal and linguistic explorations, making use of material directly at hand. Red, supersaturated and primary, operates here (as it often does) as an expressive misnomer or deflecting shield, both holding the works together as a group and operating as a current running through and alongside the work.
Many of Marnie’s earlier works were similarly circumscribed by a utilization of various imagistic and linguistic clichés: the flower, the cube, the rupture. Self-proscribed, Marnie’s “red” prompt for The Red Show draws from this archive with the two earliest works in the exhibition. The rest of the works in the show were made in 2023 in Marnie’s home and backyard at 4225 Gibson Street (where he lives with his wife and child, and also runs the gallery and publishing project F).
The isolation and presentation of red courses through modernity, from its use in painting by Malevich, to its association with Nazism, to its glorious subversion in Punk. Overused, if not ineloquent, red has been exploited endlessly in consumer products like Coca-Cola and Marlboro, fast food chains and banks. Marnie’s current use of red mines its ubiquity while also making room for its potential as a potent and endlessly open site of exploration.
Adam Marnie (b. 1977, Minneapolis) is an artist, writer, publisher and art dealer living in Houston. His work was included in recent group exhibitions at Magenta Plains and Kerry Schuss Gallery (both New York); / (Slash), San Francisco; Arturo Bandini and Bad Reputation (both Los Angeles). His two-person collaboration with New York- and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg was included in the Texas Biennial at FotoFest, 2021. His book The Origin of Mark Flood, chronicling Flood’s life from 1987–1992, was published by Karma, New York, in 2021.”
Reception: September 9, 2023 | 2–5 pm
115 Hyde Park Boulevard
Houston, 77006 Texas
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