LIFE IN AN IVORY TOWER
LIFE IN AN IVORY TOWER
MAY 16 — MAY 23, 2022
75 KENMARE ST
NEW YORK, NY 10012 I
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AMANDA BALDWIN
LOUISE BONNET
ROSS CALIENDO
ALEJANDRO CARDENAS
MARK RYAN CHARIKER
NICASIO FERNANDEZ
JACK JUBB
SCOTT KAHN
MAUD MADSEN
DANIEL CORREA MEJÍA
JENNY MORGAN
ALEJANDRA MOROS
LARISSA DE JESÚS NEGRÓN
ARIANA PAPADEMETROPOULOS
ANISA RAKAJ
ERNESTO RENDA
KYLE STAVER
EMMA WEBSTER
CHLOE WEST
JESSICA WESTHAFER
ROBERT ZEHNDER
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EXHIBITION TEXT
Jack Siebert is delighted to present his second curatorial project, and the first in New York City.
The Ivory Tower is a figure of speech, it never existed. “There are towers and there is ivory, both quite real; it is their combination in the idea of an Ivory Tower which is both imaginary and consequential. Physical towers had both mundane and symbolic aspects. Affording their inhabitants an overview, towers might be defensible fortified structures. Rising above the normal surface of things, they could also be spaces of contemplation, expressive gestures at closeness to the divine and practical ways of distancing inhabitants from mundane human affairs.” “Ivory was, however, symbolic all the way through: it was always fantastically expensive, a luxury good from parts of animals themselves so rare and exotic that ivory has traditionally had its cultural being in the worlds of art, ornamentation and aesthetics: something real out of which you might make almost mythic real objects – layered myth.”
“Life in an Ivory Tower” aims to reveal the metaphorical places or atmospheres where artists follow their own pursuits and create an environment through their work, disconnected from everyday life. Like towers, the artists in this exhibition rise above the surface of normality, creating distance from the mundane through expressive gestures. Ivory plays the part of creating something out of touch, exotic. The ivory tower is removed from everyday life, a world of its own.
The title of this exhibition expresses the worlds artists create; something fantastical, unordinary, and generally removed from the commonalities of everyday life. The exhibition seeks to celebrate the unique approaches artist take to create a personal dialogue through their art.
