I'm sharing the PR here for my show at Laurel Gitlen in Brooklyn, opening March 28, 2026. The show is modest in scale and my first solo presentation in NYC.
I'll also share two epigraphs, by Marcel Duchamp, and Gilles Deleuze, that we redacted from the final draft. I believe nonetheless that they address a key problem in art making, which is knowing when to stop. Art making today is a challenging thing because no one tells artists to stop, and no one tells them to keep going. This is particularly challenging in an individualistic culture where the utility of art is ambiguous, and often egoistic. I actually intuit that my writing below is symptomatic of the culture and feel a bit uneasy about it...
I REALIZED VERY SOON THE DANGER OF REPEATING INDISCRIMINATELY THIS FORM OF EXPRESSION AND DECIDED TO LIMIT THE PRODUCTION OF "READYMADES" TO A SMALL NUMBER YEARLY. I WAS AWARE AT THAT TIME, THAT FOR THE SPECTATOR EVEN MORE THAN FOR THE ARTIST, ART IS A HABIT-FORMING DRUG AND I WANTED TO PROTECT MY "READYMADES" AGAINST SUCH CONTAMINATION.
- Marcel Duchamp, ‘Apropos of Readymades’
“ He does not seek the last drink; he seeks the penultimate one. Not the ultimate, because the ultimate [Deleuze gestures with his hands] would place him outside his arrangement. The penultimate is the last one… before beginning again the next day.
- Gilles Deleuze, ‘B: Boire/Boisson (Drink)’
