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Night Bitches
Alex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness.
It was put together by Jamian Juliano-Villani, 37, a living-on-the-edge sensation who shows her own hyperrealist paintings at Gagosian and uses the sales to stage exhibitions at her gallery, O’Flaherty’s. This idea of pushing back against the limits of life cycles is baked into theaudacious DNA of “The Bitch.” Juliano-Villani envisioned a show about “living in fear,” “a gripping tale of unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death.” This sort of raw hubris is welcome in an art world filled with familiar aesthetic conceits and credentialed elitism. Playing on them is Barney’s 45-minute video Drawing Restraint 28, in which we witness Katz, an ancient mariner climbing up and down a portable stairway, making one of his large orange monochromes.
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