Duchamp Threads the Needle: A group show at David Nolan Gallery

Madison Wilds Burger 

The Current Season 

E. Diaz

02-28-2020

Group B- Exhibition Review 1

Duchamp Threads the Needle

A group show at David Nolan Gallery

When entering Duchamp Threads the Needle, it's not difficult to feel puzzled as to whether you're standing in one's ready-made bedroom or on your way into someone else's fantasy world. This generous group show on display at David Nolan Gallery showcases the works of 19 artists, working primarily within the mediums of painting, sculpture and drawing. Most of the works manage to challenge their unconventional use of material while paying respect to Duchamp's pioneered readymade movement. 

Your feet graze by Andrea Zittle’s, A to Z Living Unit 1994 upon entrance, a sculpture originally commissioned by art collectors, Leonora and Jimmy Belilty. This work brings me back to the emergence of prefabricated houses during the 1960’s; a genuine readymade of its own. On the other side of the gallery just past a blockade of drab gold trophies is Theaster Gates’s, Mantle with Hose III, 2011 and Gavin Turk’s, Turkey Foil x4, 2007, two more pieces you may have seen at some point in the imagined home of Zittle. Intermingled are paintings that orchestrate the larger picture of what the viewer may be trying to figure out while walking throughout the show. There is a piece for everyone...except maybe photographers.