Etel Adnan, Cy Gavin, Kahlil Robert Irving, Silvia Kolbowski, Jumana Manna, Ulrike Müller

FRAME BY FRAME

Opening: Thursday, May 25, 6–8pm

May 25 – July 25, 2017

A photograph of a flat screen television with a video playing on it. On the flat screen is a computer monitor in a hallway in a storage unit facility.

Silvia Kolbowski, Missing Asher, 2017. Video, 8min 52sec loop. Edition of 3.

An abstract drawing of a black rectangle, without all the sides filled in. There is some shading closer to the center that makes it appear like it's receding in space.

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2013. Charcoal on paper, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (26.7 x 21.6 cm)

A black and white drawing of an incomplete square. At the bottom-left is a large X, and there are some gray strains along the bottom edge. There is also some striation in gray, running vertically, along the top-right of the shape.

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2013. Charcoal on paper, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (26.7 x 21.6 cm)

A black and white drawing with black lines near the top and bottom of a small composition. There are some faint grey lines and shapes within the darker extremes.

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2013. Charcoal on paper, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (26.7 x 21.6 cm)

A painting of a partially human body (from the waist down) laying in a natural environment. There are hues of yellow, red, orange, and black in a majority of the image. At right there is a mass of blue/green. The background is predominantly abstract with suggestions of mountains and rocks.

Cy Gavin, Idyll, 2017. Acrylic and oil on denim, 46 x 134 inches (116.8 x 340.4 cm)

An abstract painted canvas of a mountain. There are squares and rectangles of different hues of blue, green, and white.

Etel Adnan, Untitled, n.d. Oil on canvas, 9 x 8 inches (22.9 x 20.3 cm)

A black and white collograph print that includes layers that have been printed over to resemble folds. There are also imprints of squished cans.

Kahlil Robert Irving, Carded (Crash), 2017. Collograph and collaged found objects, 29 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (75.6 x 52.1 cm)

A collograph print that includes found objects applied to it. The top of a styrofoam clamshell can be seen on the bottom-left, and there is a pizza triangle for to-go slices near the top-left. At the top-left corner of the paper is a gold square. There is also a loose gold area on the left side of the paper.

Kahlil Robert Irving, Primed and Gilded Area #1, 2017. Collograph and collaged found objects, 29 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (75.6 x 52.1 cm)

A collograph print that includes found objects upon it including a squished can painted white in the top-left, and another piece of detritus in the bottom-right.

Kahlil Robert Irving, Street View (Constellation), 2017. Collograph and collaged found objects, 29 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (75.6 x 52.1 cm)

A sculpture leaning against the wall, with the top of the gutter which might be found on a corner of a home being the support on the wall itself. The sculpture is the bone colored (off-white/cream)

Jumana Manna, Gutter, 2016. Pigment, aqua-resin, fiberglass, lacquer, 109 x 24 x 13 inches (276.9 x 61 x 33 cm)

An abstract white sculpture leaning against the wall. The shape is a trapezoid with curved edges.

Jumana Manna, Head, 2016. Plaster, fiber, lacquer, wood, 78 x 60 x 5 inches (198.1 x 152.4 x 12.7 cm)

An abstract painting made of enamel. There is a line down the center. At right is a shape looking like a half of a heart. There is a brown triangle at the bottom-right. On the left are sky blue and powder blue shapes in irregular forms.

Ulrike Müller, Some, 2017. Vitreous enamel on steel, 15 1/2 x 12 inches (39.4 x 30.5 cm)

An abstract enamel painting with a vertical central line. On the left is a pale pink hue, at right is black. On top and bottom of the vertical line are small triangles: at top, in royal blue; at bottom, in pale orange.

Ulrike Müller, Some, 2017. Vitreous enamel on steel, 15 1/2 x 12 inches (39.4 x 30.5 cm)

An abstract painting made from enamel. There is a vertical line down the center: at left is a pale yellow; at right are triangles in red and navy blue. There is also a taupe colored shape off the central axis.

Ulrike Müller, Some, 2017. Vitreous enamel on steel, 15 1/2 x 12 inches (39.4 x 30.5 cm)

Press Release

Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present FRAME BY FRAME, a group exhibition comprised of works by six artists: Etel Adnan, Cy Gavin, Kahlil Irving, Silvia Kolbowski, Jumana Manna, and Ulrike Müller; and the poet Samiya Bashir who will be reading from her new book, Field Theories, just released by Nightboat Books, starting at 7pm on Thursday May 25th. The exhibition runs from May 25 to June 25, 2017.

The title of the exhibition is an excerpt from an entry in The Poets’ Encyclopedia published in 1979. In this entry the collective General Idea offers a loopy definition of “general idea.”

For additional information please contact Photi Giovanis at info@callicoonfinearts.com or call 212 219 0326.

Callicoon Fine Arts is located at 49 Delancey Street between Forsyth and Eldridge Streets. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 10:30 to 6:30 The nearest subway stops are the B and D trains at Grand Street and the F, J, M and Z trains at Delancey-Essex Street.