Blow Ups
White Flag doesn’t do many repeats, so our audience usually only gets one chance to see any of the artists we exhibit. It’s too bad in way, because they tend to get out of here and then BLOW UP. We’re always getting news about good things happening for artists that have been part the WFP program– and not the kind of fake junk some galleries put in these kinds of things to make it look like an artist who is doing nothing is doing something- THIS STUFF IS REAL. This is what has come in over the past few weeks:
Kansas City-based photographer Jaimie Warren had a monograph of her self-portraits published by the Aperture Foundation, not to mention a review in the last Artforum. She also performed at Deitch Projects infamous holiday party in December. Jaimie’s exhibition at White Flag was in September 2007. THAT’S REAL.
Jacob Kassay was in January’s “One Loses One’s Classics”. There’s no way for us to confirm it without having to pick up the phone, but we hear his New York solo debut in at Eleven Rivington sold out… these days that is PRETTY DAMN REAL.
Amy Granat was already a big thing when she brought her show to WFP in May 2008, but she just got bigger. Word is the Museum of Modern Art has just acquired two of her works for their permanent collection. THAT’S REAL.
Matt Keegan’s work was part of Cinema Zero’s BENDOVER/HANGOVER show last year. This year his work will be in the much hyped “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus ” at The New Museum… and that’s a hard ticket to get (500 artists were nominated and only 50 are in.) THAT IS REAL.
If you need more of this kind of reality you can get it in April when we relaunch the White Flag newsletter.
dennis fleming
on Mar 19th, 2009
@ 5:20 pm:
You people are worth every metaphorical penny, nickle, dime, quarter, dollar… You keep alternative art alive in STL. Thanks