NYC - Cordy Ryman New Works (01.09.09 - 02.14.09)

CORDY RYMAN
January 10 – February 14, 2008

Opening Reception:
Friday, January 9, 6-8pm

DCKT Contemporary presents CORDY RYMAN's solo exhibition of new abstract paintings, sculptures and installations. RYMAN uses traditional and non-traditional media such as paint, wood, metal, felt tip pen, velcro, staples and floor sweepings.

Tinged with humor, RYMAN's works often contain reflected colors as well as real and painted shadows. The works play with illusion versus reality and attachment versus detachment. RYMAN manipulates and reconstitutes an inherited visual language, defining himself in relation to it.

NYC - " Rock on Mars" (01.09.09 - 02.28.09)

January 09, 2009 — February 28, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

Rock on Mars, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Stephen Sprouse, will transform Deitch Projects's 18 Wooster Street gallery into a realization of Sprouse's rock and roll futuristic vision.

Stephen Sprouse (1953-2004) was one of the most influential fashion designers of his time and a key figure in the dynamic mix of punk rock, wild style graffiti, and street influenced fashion that characterized the downtown New York community in the early 1980s. He was one of the first to build on the influence of Andy Warhol to create a fusion of art, music and fashion. He continued on a course that disavowed any division among these fields throughout his career.

The exhibition will introduce Sprouse's extraordinary pop-influenced paintings to the larger art audience. His paintings of iconic rock and roll imagery including stacks of loudspeakers, Sid Vicious with his pants down, and an Iggy Pop crucifixion, have rarely been seen. The show will also include a selection of the video works made to accompany his runway shows, examples of his fabric and furniture design for Knoll, and fifty of his most influential fashion looks.

In conjunction with the exhibition project, Marc Jacobs has created a new collection for Louis Vuitton, inspired by Sprouse's famous collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2001, which featured the classic monogram bag scrawled with Stephen Sprouse graffiti. The new limited edition Stephen Sprouse – Louis Vuitton collection will be available in Louis Vuitton stores worldwide from January 9, 2009, the opening date of the exhibition.