long black
Zach Rockhill
Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 3, 2010
Opening Reception: September 4, 7:00 - 10:00pm
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FLUXspace is pleased to present Brooklyn-based artist Zach Rockhill's long black, a part performative event/part residual wall painting. Allowing a crowded tug-of-war to leave behind its graphic evidence on one of the gallery walls, Rockhill walks a sly line between a mosh pit and Klein's Anthropométries. Flipping the polarities on the artist who struggles heroically at the mercy of his singular vision, the struggle here is made literal and plural, the vision entirely incidental. long black, offers up the residual “abstraction” without qualifiers. The exhibition will be on display from September 4 – October 3, 2010. There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on September 4, 2010 from 7 – 10 pm.

Although representing a break in format, this project extends Rockhill's playful undoing of principles of stability, security and control, as evidenced by the gravity-defying involuntary ballet in his video “This side Down; Damn if I know” from 2006, and his parsing of the nature of desire in “As for the Motive…”, 2008. Having established conditions where one's stated purpose and intention are not just thwarted, but potentially inverted, Rockhill leaves us with the contours of the question itself – where is agency located? The title is an additional reversal, presenting itself on the one hand as simply descriptive, but on the other hand alluding to the Lefty Frizzell ballad, ‘Long Black Veil’, that laments an innocent lover, whose willful silence results in him being lost to death row. Half comedy and half pathos, the human struggle to both "know thyself" and, fearing the worst - to avoid that knowledge – is, in long black, perfectly mirrored: Rockhill directs 4 participants to use him as the vehicle to make the art. Rockhill chooses to follow both the impulse and the examination of the impulse , complicating and implicating along the way. An accompanying broadsheet publication will feature essays exploring long black by 4 writers: Kathryn R. Kraczon, Alexi Kukuljevic, Peter Russo, and Theodore Tucker.

Best Regards,
FLUXspace Staff

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Extra Ephemera and Digital Detritus:

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