Bring
The War Home will exhibit art works made for the commercial
sphere, as well as ephemera and documentation from the curatorial,
performance, and publishing projects (made by artists for
artists) that are also an important part of these artists’
practice. By presenting this work together in a commercial
gallery, the paradoxical position of the artist is laid bare;
the war is brought home, and the artist-driven activity which
Jerry Saltz calls for and the internal self-reckoning that
Andrea Fraser calls for is shown to be very much in practice
already.
Bring the War Home is a joint exhibition that will be displayed
both at the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York and QED in
Los Angeles. It is an exhibition of collaborators, orchestrators,
publishers, producers, and pirates organized by Drew Heitzler,
co-founder of Champion Fine Art, a two-year gallery project
of 21 artist-curated exhibitions, that ran from September
2003 to November 2005. A catalog for Bring The War Home with
a text by Walead Beshty will be published in conjunction
with the exhibition.
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