Doug Ischar
Sleepless
Golden Gallery, New York

Exhibition dates: January 5 - February 12, 2012
Single-channel video presentation:
February 16 - 26, 2012, Program repeats hourly
Golden Gallery, New York

Sleepless is an exhibition drawn from Ischar’s institutional exhibition history from 1993 - 1995. Two large bodies of work, Orderly and Wake - presented at The List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Mercer Union, Toronto; and SITE Santa Fe, among others – emerged at a moment when the exploration of media, and cross-disciplinary practices, were critical actions further complicating the then-peculiar state of semiotics. The current exhibition presents the opportunity for the artist, and the public, to re-approach selected components from those early 90s installations, nearly two decades from their original conception and exhibition. Ischar’s editing of moving image and static objects continues to address the practical and visual boundaries for definitions of
masculinity, sexuality, violence and secrecy.

Since 2007 the artist has worked predominately in single-channel video. For two weeks, February 16 - 19 and 23 - 26, Golden will present ongoing screenings of Ischar’s filmic work. The program repeats hourly.

Press Release (pdf)
Ischar CV (pdf)
Exhibition packet (pdf)

Johanna Burton, Artforum, 2012.
Joseph R. Wolin, Time Out NY, 2012.

Related exhibitions:
Doug Ischar, Marginal Waters, 2009.
Doug Ischar, Honor Among, 2011.
Gregg Bordowitz, Doug Ischar, Tom Kalin: Group Screening, 2012.
Doug Ischar, single channel video presentation, 2012.