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Samson Projects is pleased to present new works by Davis/Cherubini at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) art fair.
"In the spy-vs-spy era of WW II, collaboration meant collusion, assisting in an often-illicit operation or campaign. In the current, millennial, mad market art world, collaboration has become a working relationship of choice, a feel-good antidote to commercial competition and an evolutionary advance on the artist as Author. The creative coupling the word suggests has the aura of a win-win proposition, at least ideologically, though anyone who’s actually undertaken a collaborative project knows better. Most artists are hard-put to relinquish the signature bits and pieces that add up to what others call style. So sorting out what might actually inspire an artist to agree to subject her work to the hands and mind of an other can be complicated. In the case of artists Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis, the motives were less ideological or strategic than personal, and the unanticipated fear and anger of the interchange excited and scared them both." -- Linda Norden
Taylor Davis (1959, Palm Springs, CA) received her MFA from the Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at Triple Candie (NYC, NY) and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC, NY).
Nicole Cherubini (1970, Boston, MA) recieved her M.F.A. from New York University and her B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design. She recently had a solo project space at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work is currently in Irrational Profusions at PS1/MoMA (LIC, NY). She has upcoming solo exhibitions at Galerie Michael Jannssen (Berlin, Germany) and Smith Stewart (NYC, NY).
Brochure with an essay by Linda Norden available.
Samson Projects is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance. The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit collective of professionals working with contemporary art. To date, our initiatives have succeeded on two fronts: making the contemporary arts more accessible for the general public, and creating opportunities that nurture the growth of emerging artists, curators, and galleries. The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair was established in an effort to further pursue these initiatives and to present an alternative opportunity for exploring new or underexposed art that is not typical of the art establishment. The NADA Fair catalog will be available on site and is made possible and sponsored by New American Paintings/Open Studios Press.
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