Unseen 50 Years: Paintings by Ben Morea, 1964 - 1965

Unseen 50 Years: Paintings by Ben Morea, 1964 - 1965

Thursday, Jun 19, 2014 - Friday, Aug 01, 2014

Location:
Boo-Hooray (Canal Street)
265 Canal Street, Suite 601
New York, NY 10013

This is a thrilling follow up to our exhibition on Black Mask earlier this year. Ben Morea’s marriage of radical political/philosophical thought and avant-garde art as mirrored in Black Mask and UAW/MF publications and actions is further illuminated when viewing these powerful paintings.

An illustrated catalog with text by Ben about his paintings was available at the exhibition.

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.