Dean Project Presents Sculptures by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers

Written by Rudi Margoyles Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:57

New York City.- Dean Project is thrilled to present, "On the Brink", on view at the gallery from September 15th through October 29th. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery by the collaborative husband and wife team: Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers. Continuing with their exploration of ideas of material value and the consequences of the actions we take to satisfy our desires, Berg-Myers have created a new body of works.  This current exhibition is meant to provide the viewers with objects-situations where our choices are put to the test in how we understand the value of the things we do.Some of the works in the exhibition have titles such as “All that glitters” and “As good as gold” which echo marketing tools employed in our contemporary culture to attract with a promise of guaranteed satisfaction if consumed.

Other works, such as “Against the tide “ and “Souvenirs” are examples of how the polar bear could become extinct do to our treatment of the environment. Eventually nature will remain present in our culture in the form of man-made objects that represent what once was real. These man-made objects end up in our homes where we will value them without realizing that they represent the real thing. Things fall apart, they break, fracture, both: material and metaphorical is a part of our lives. In this exhibition fracture acts as a unifying principle, unifying themes as diverse as luck, consumption and value. Sometimes something must be broken or fractured in order for us to see its value. This may be especially true for our environment.

Dean Project was established by Mark Dean with the opening of the gallery in September 2007. Dean Project's original location consisted of a 2,000 sqft gallery building located directly behind the P.S.1/MoMA Museum in Long Island City. We are happy to announce that after three wonderful years in LIC the gallery has relocated to 511 West 25th Street in Manhattan. Over the past three years Dean Project has exhibited at over thirty contemporary art fairs including FEMACO Mexico City, PULSE Miami, PULSE New York, NEXT Chicago, FIA Caracas Venezuela, CIRCA Puerto Rico, Art Palm Beach, Toronto TIAF, San Francisco Art Fair and Scope Basel, London, Hamptons, New York and Miami. From the time the gallery opened our program has consisted of sixteen public exhibitions to date including solo, group and our annual independent curated summer invitational. Selected gallery press includes Art in America, Bazaar, W Magazine, Harpers, WWD, Elle Decor, Wall Street Journal, The Art Newspaper, New York Times, Art + Auction, Art Knowledge News, ARTINFO, artnet, Artillery LA, ARTES, Art Nexus, Hamptons, Kuwait City Al-Watan Daily, Arab Times, Kuwait Times, UAE Gulf News, El Universal, El Nacional, Globovision, BBC, Showtime and MTV/Vh1. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.deanproject.com

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