Erik Foss - The Harvest

Erik Foss - The Harvest

Saturday, Sep 15, 2018 - Friday, Sep 28, 2018

Location:
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental
649 Montauk Highway
Montauk, NY 11954

Boo-Hooray is proud to present Erik Foss's  second New York solo show of new paintings and mixed medium works on paper

 

Millions of children

Born to their mothers' womb,

Starved at the nipple, cry,--

Ours is the harvest!

Millions of women

Learned in the tragical

Secrets of poverty,

Sweated and beaten, cry,--

Hold back the sickles!

 

Millions of men

With a vestige of manhood,

Wild-eyed and gaunt-throated,

Shout with a leonine

Accent of anger,

Leaves us the wheat-fields!

 

When will the reapers

Strike in their sickles?

Ask not the question;

Something tremendous

Moves to the answer.

 

Turning 45 this yearthe bloom of youth faded, I felt the shadows of mortality and the tenuousness of trying to function in late capitalism while being an independent artist. Absent health care, absent the fiscal wealth that surrounds me like another new overnight condo, I'm raw to the impact of every challenge, and I am not alone.

So many artists fight in this broken system, brave people who still push for the utopian ideal. I have been drawn

to writers and filmmakers and makers of many forms that have historically strived in this alembic. I take strength in their struggle, in the histories of these voices, voices that bear witness to and challenge a broken system.

This work is a reaction to this dystopia and an appreciation of artistic insistence.

BOO-HOORAY exhibits both at home in New York City as well as internationally. We also stage collaborative exhibitions with the Hayward Gallery and Rough Trade in London, Tsutaya Daikanyama, Hysteric Glamour, and United Arrows in Tokyo, Galleri Operatingplace in Stockholm, Colette in Paris, PopMontreal in Montreal, Mishka Los Angeles, Printed Matter at both MOCA/LA and PS1/NYC, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and Milk Gallery in New York.

Boo-Hooray exhibitions have included shows featuring Larry Clark, The Velvet Underground, Ray Johnson, Afrika Bambaataa, Jonas Mekas, Ed Sanders, Linder Sterling and Jon Savage, Spencer Sweeney, Houston Rap, private press vinyl, Wallace Berman, anarcho-punk group Crass, Jason Polan, Jack Smith, cult-filmmaker Ed Wood, and Situationist Times editor Jacqueline de Jong.

The exhibitions are drawn from cultural archives that Boo-Hooray excavates, organizes, and places in institutions such as Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Cornell University’s Division of Rare Manuscript Collections, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.