Exhibition Copy: Imin Yeh, Spare Chairs
2024, Paper, glue and paint.
What appear to be a dozen folding chairs displayed in windows along Lowrie Street, are in fact meticulously hand-built sculptures made from paper, glue and paint.
These ubiquitous chairs are present at many of life’s important events; bought out for wedding receptions, funerals, graduations, meetings, lectures, birthdays, and card-games. The height of their powers are as the “Pittsburgh Parking Chair”, defining utility and local laws to informally yet defiantly hold space for your car.
Spare Chairs is an extension of Imin Yeh's on-going sculptural obsession with making 1:1 replicas of objects and infrastructures that share the physical space with artwork, things like electrical outlets, fire alarms, track lighting, phone jacks, radiators, i beams, and humidity sensors. These are the objects that do real work: holding up buildings, lighting up and protecting art, making a room hospitable etc but are not the objects we have come to observe and study.
Exhibition Copy
A series of solo exhibitions.
By seven internationally renowned artists.
In six uncommon locations.
Along the same street.
February 2024 - April 2025
LOUISE BOURGEOIS - February / March 2024
ROMAN ONDAK - April / May 2024
ROULA PARTHENIOU - June / July 2024
IMIN YEH - August / September 2024
LYNDON BARROIS JR. - October / November 2024
RYAN GANDER - December / January 2024 - 2025
MARTIN CREED - February / March 2025
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Exhibition Copy is a rotating series of solo shows by seven artists.
Each artist is invited to respond to the idea of the exhibition copy, a term often referring to a duplicate of an artwork fabricated because of a lending artist or institution’s reluctance to put an original work at risk.
Exhibition Copy also copies an exhibition space as Gallery Closed is multiplied into adjacent homes and businesses along a half-mile length of Lowrie Street.
Each exhibition will take place simultaneously in the public facing windows of six Lowrie Street locations. The venues include; Gallery Closed, a former beauty salon, a public notary office, Ron’s Pizza Palace, a private home and an elementary school. Each artist’s project will be exhibited for two months in all six locations, at the same time.
This exhibition series invites seven artists to interrogate ideas of authorship and the original by using the exhibition copy as a means for expanding the experience of a single artwork across multiple sites and contextual shifts.
Curated by Jon Rubin, Phillip Andrew Lewis, and Lenka Clayton
