Deitch Projects

Deitch Projects (1996-2010) was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch. Deitch Projects had a gallery and project space at 76 Grand Street and 18 Wooster Street in SoHo, and previously an additional 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) in Long Island City.[1][2]

Installation view of "Super Tudor" by Richard Woods at Deitch Projects' 76 Grand Street location (September 5–October 19, 2002)

History

From 1988 to 1996, Jeffrey Deitch had been a private dealer and art adviser to a number of collectors.[3]

Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, Deitch Projects presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a number of public events. It is known as the gallery where many of the most well-known artists of the 90s and early 2000s—Cecily Brown, Inka Essenhigh, Barry McGee, Swoon and Kristin Baker to name a few—began their careers.

In 2009, artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman transformed the gallery into a Gothic warren of rooms populated with gurgling beakers and melting toilets for a piece called Black Acid Co-op.[4] That same year, Deitch Projects and Goldman Properties organized the ambitious public project The Wynwood Walls, for which 15 artists created 11 permanent murals throughout Miami's Wynwood district.

In addition to its projects with emerging artists, the gallery actively produced exhibitions and books with more established artists who have been part of Jeffrey Deitch's circle since the mid-1970s and early 1980s. In 2007, the gallery produced a book and exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat's work in the transitional year of 1981, when he went from working on street to working in the studio.[5] The gallery also represented the estate of late artist Keith Haring, with whom Deitch worked closely in the 1980s.[4]

In 1997 Sotheby's purchased a 50% interest in Deitch Projects.[6] Under the two companies' agreement, besides running his galleries, Jeffrey Deitch worked at the auction house managing its 20th-century Art Gallery Program for a few years.[7] Sotheby's later announced that it would close the previously acquired André Emmerich Gallery, and that the gallery's artists would be handled out of Deitch Projects.[8] As a response, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the main beneficiary of the artists' estates, as well as the estates of Morris Louis and Milton Avery announced that they would not renew their Emmerich contracts.[9] Sotheby's subsequently sold its share in Deitch Projects back to Jeffrey Deitch.

The gallery closed in Summer 2010 as Jeffrey Deitch went on to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).[4] After his three-year tenure at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art from 2010 to 2013, Deitch moved back to his New York spaces, renaming them Jeffrey Deitch Inc.[10]

In 2014, Jeffrey Deitch published Live the Art on the 15-years history of Deitch Projects.[11][12]

Exhibitions

1996

• Vanessa Beecroft, VB16 Piano Americano-Beige, January 6–27, 76 Grand Street.[13]
• Jocelyn Taylor, Alien at Rest, February 1–24, 76 Grand Street.
• Nari Ward, Happy Smilers, March 7–April 6, 76 Grand Street.[14][15][16]
• Mariko Mori, Made in Japan, April 11–27, 76 Grand Street.[17]
• Chen Zhen, Daily Incantations, May 4–June 8, 76 Grand Street.[18]
• Shopping, curated with Jérôme Sans, September 5–21, 76 Grand Street and 26 shops around SoHo.[19]
• Jessica Diamond, Tributes to Kusama, October 5–26, 76 Grand Street.[20]
• Teresita Fernández, November 2-30, 76 Grand Street.
• Cody Choi, The Thinker, December 7 1996–January 4 1997, 76 Grand Street.[21]

1997

• Emiko Kasahara, Immaculate Fabrication, January 11–February 1, 76 Grand Street.
• Beth B, Portraits & Playthings, February 6–March 8, 76 Grand Street.
• Cecily Brown, Spectacle, February 6–March 8, 76 Grand Street.[22][23]
• Cerith Wyn Evans, March 15–April 5, 76 Grand Street.
• Oleg Kulik, I Bite America and America Bites Me, April 12–26, 76 Grand Street.[24]
• Valie Export, Images of Contact, April 12–May 7, 76 Grand Street.[25]
• Nedko Solakov, Somewhere (under the tree), May 3–June 7, 76 Grand Street.
• Bernadette Corporation, Hell on Earth: Collection Fall/Winter 1997, May 9, 18 Wooster Street.[26]
• Noritoshi Hirakawa, Garden of Nirvana, May 10–June 7, 76 Grand Street.
• Johan Grimonprez, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, September 6–27, 76 Grand Street.[27]
• Stefan Hablutzel, 1962/1929, October 4–25, 76 Grand Street.
• Montien Boonma, House of Hope, October 4–25, 76 Grand Street.[28]
• Shahzia Sikander, Murals and Miniatures, November 1–29, 76 Grand Street.[29]
• Barbara Kruger, Power Pleasure Desire Disgust, November 1–December 20, 18 Wooster Street.[30][31]

1998

• Alexandros Psychoulis, There is no place far enough for you to escape from images and the pain they caused you, January 15–February 7, 76 Grand Street.
• Daisuke Nakayama, February 11–March 14, 76 Grand Street.
• Y. Z. Kami, February 11–March 14, 76 Grand Street.
• Cornelia Parker, Mass (Colder Darker Matter), March 28–April 18, 76 Grand Street.
• Yoko Ono, Ex It, April 24–May 30, 18 Wooster Street.
• Cecily Brown, High Society, April 24–May 30, 76 Grand Street.[32][33]
• Michelle Lopez, Leather, April 24–May 30, 76 Grand Street.
• Painting from Another Planet: New Painting from Los Angeles, curated with David Pagel, June 5–July 31, 76 Grand Street.
• Cadence Giersbach, Plastic Replicating Garden, September 10–October 17, 76 Grand Street.[34]
• Noritoshi Hirakawa, The Reason of Life, September 10–October 17, 76 Grand Street.[35]
• Peter Klare, Home Furnishings, October 24–November 28, 76 Grand Street.[36]
• LOT-EK Architecture, TV-TANK, October 24–November 28, 76 Grand Street.
• R. M. Fischer, Bubble World, December 2 1998–January 2 1999, 76 Grand Street.

1999

• Malick Sidibé, The Clubs of Bamako, February 11–March 6, 76 Grand Street.
• Barry McGee, The Buddy System, March 20–April 24, 76 Grand Street.[37]
• Mozart on Television: New Painting from Germany, July 1–August 6, 76 Grand Street.
• Margaret Kilgallen, To Friend and Foe, September 9–October 9, 76 Grand Street.[38]
• Lane Twitchell, State of the Union, September 9–October 9, 76 Grand Street.[38]
• Brad Kahlhamer, Friendly Frontier, October 14–November 6, 76 Grand Street.[39]
• George Condo, Portraits Lost in Space, December 3 1999–January 15 2000, 76 Grand Street.[40]

2000

• Tim Noble and Sue Webster, I ♥ You, February 25–March 26, 76 Grand Street.
• Michal Rovner, Overhang, March 23–May 29, 410 Park Avenue.
• Ghada Amer, Intimate Confessions, April 15–May 27, 18 Wooster Street.[41]
• Zhang Huan, My America, April 15–May 27, 75 Grand Street.
• Vanessa Beecroft, VB42 Intrepid: The Silent Service, April 21, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum (off-site component of the 2000 Whitney Biennial).
• Kurt Kauper, Diva Fictions, May 6–June 3, 76 Grand Street.
• Roland Brener, Swinger, May 6–June 3, 76 Grand Street.
• Sentimental Education, curated by David Rimanelli, featuring Alex Bag, Patterson Beckwith, Jon Boskovitch, Delia Brown, Chivas Clem, Jessica Craig-Martin, Hannah Greely, Jonathan Hammer, Deb Lacusta, Daria Martin, Milena Muzquiz, and Rob Pruitt, June 8–July 29, 76 Grand Street.
• Nicola Constantino, Human Furrier, September 7–October 7, 76 Grand Street.[42]
• Johan Grimonprez, Inflight! From Skyjacked to Spacenapped: Words to Read in the Sky, October 12–November 4, 76 Grand Street.
• Street Market, a collaborative installation with Barry McGee, Todd James and Stephen Powers, October 5–December 2, 18 Wooster Street.[43]
• Keith Haring, Paradise Garage: Keith Haring and Music, December 14 2000–February 10 2001, 18 Wooster Street.

2001

• Yehudit Sasportas, The Carpenter and the Seamstress, January 10–February 10, 76 Grand Street.[44]

• Martin Kersels, Tumble Room, February 22–March 24, 2001, 76 Grand Street.[45]

• Paul McCarthy, The Garden, February 23–April 7, 18 Wooster Street.

• Haluk Akakçe, Blood Pressure, March 31–April 28, 76 Grand Street.[46]

• Philippe Bradshaw, Disco Damage, May 5–June 30, 18 Wooster Street.

• Ravinder Reddy, Sculpture, September 8–October 27, 18 Wooster Street.[47]

• Widely Unknown, November 10–December 22, 18 Wooster Street, with works by Nick Ackerman, buZ blurr, Bill Daniel, Cheryl Dunn, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, and Barry McGee.[48][49]

2002

• Alan Suicide, Collision Drive, January 12–February 23, 76 Grand Street.[50]

• Chris Verene and Christian Holstad, The Self-Esteem Salon—The Baptism Series, April 5–20, 76 Grand Street.[51]

• Fischerspooner, Sweetness, May 11–25, 18 Wooster Street.[52]

• Santiago Sierra, Nine Forms of 100 x 100 x 600 cm Each, Constructed to be Supported Perpendicular to a Wall, June 29–July 13, 18 Wooster Street.[53]

• ASFOUR, September 5–21, 18 Wooster Street.

• Richard Woods, Super Tudor, September 5–October 19, 76 Grand Street.[54]

• Liza Lou, Testimony, October 12–November 30, 18 Wooster Street.

• Yes Yes Y’all—The Birth of Hip Hop, November 1–December 1, 110 North 1st Street, Brooklyn. The exhibition celebrated the release of Yes Yes Y’all, the Experience Music Project’s oral history of hip-hop by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn.[55]

• Chris Johanson, Now is Now, November 2–December 21, 76 Grand Street.[56]

• Patricia Cronin, Memorial to a Marriage, November 3, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
• Alife, December 14, 2002–February 15, 2003, 76 Grand Street.

• Session the Bowl, December 14, 2002–February 15, 2003, 18 Wooster Street; featuring Simparch, Barry McGee, Larry Clark and others.

2003

• Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, Our Best World, March 8–April 19, 76 Grand Street.[57]

• Madonna and Steven Klein, X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS, March 28–May 3, 18 Wooster Street.[58]

• Jean-Pierre Khazem, Mona Lisa Live, April 22–May 3, 76 Grand Street.

• Mariko Mori, Oneness, May 10–June 28, 18 Wooster Street.

• Ten live performances by Fischerspooner in May, 2003

2004

• Adam Kalkin's "Rural House Kit," a 2004 presentation consisting of a full-scale house made of shipping containers, with a rug designed by Jim Isermann and an indoor recreation of a dystopian model of a suburban road
• Dearraindrop's Riddle of the Sphinx[59] installation at the Wooster Street space in June 2004. This "psychedelic Egyptian theme park"[60] installation was host to the weekend-long Everything is Soft barbecue and music festival featuring bands such as Elvish Presley, Devin Flynn's Plate Tectonics, and Kocho Bi-Sexual.[61]
• "I Peed in the Northeast Corner of the Gallery," a NeoFluxus anti-revivalism installation lasting 27 seconds

2005

• Tedious Limbs featuring Paper Rad, Noah Lyon and members of Forcefield in May 2005

2006

• Artstar, the first unscripted television series set in the New York art world in June/July, 2006

2007

• "Womanizer", a mixed media art exhibition curated by Kembra Pfahler and Julie Atlas Muz in January, 2007. The show included works by E.V. Day, Breyer P-Orridge, Vaginal Davis and burlesque performer Bambi the Mermaid.[62]

• "Everybody Knew that Canadians were the Best Hockey Players," by Kurt Kauper in 2007

2008

2009

2010

• Legends of Unity: World Cup 2010, a set of portraits of African soccer players by Kehinde Wiley, in February 2010[63]
• "May Day", a solo exhibition of work by Shepard Fairey in May 2010. The title of this show brings about multiple meanings of the term, which are expressed throughout this body of work.[64]

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External links

• Official website
• Hoodlow's Video Tour of Deitch
• Calvin Tomkins, "A Fool for Art", The New Yorker, November 12, 2007, p. 65