Andrea Rosen Gallery Announces Schedule for Josiah McElheny Exhibition

Andrea Rosen Gallery today announced the performance schedule for Josiah McElheny's Some thoughts about the abstract body.

Upon entering the gallery, the viewer first encounters two wood and mirror sculptures, Walking Mirror 1 and Walking Mirror 2. Part sculpture, part costume or prop, their nylon shoulder straps suggest that they can be worn and a set of lines leads away from them and through the gallery.

Structurally, they are not unlike sandwich boards but paradoxically they also cover the face, thereby abstracting and obscuring the wearer's body; when inhabited they reflect the viewer in place of the body of the performer. These works, when standing idle or when activated by a performer six times a week (Fridays and Saturdays at 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm, either by actor/performer Austin Purnell or performer Lollo Romanski), set the tone for the way in which all of the works in the exhibition change subtly as the viewer- or the sculpture itself -moves around the gallery space. These "walking mirrors" are hybrid objects that make concrete the idea of the body as the site for abstraction, and provide an experience of how abstraction is both freeing and a kind of erasure.

Performances are scheduled for the following days and times:
Friday, May 25: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, May 26: gallery closed for Memorial Day
Friday, June 1: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, June 2: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Friday, June 8: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, June 9: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Friday, June 15: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, June 16: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Friday, June 22: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, June 23: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Friday, June 29: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm
Saturday, June 30: 2pm, 4pm, and 5pm