Exclusive Co-launch: Artspace presents a new edition by SIMON EVANS™
In partnership with James Cohan, Artspace is pleased to release a new silkscreen print by SIMON EVANS™. Entitled This American Dollhouse, the artist's newest edition depicts the cross-section of the artists' Brooklyn apartment as part theater part real-life dollhouse.
This American Dollhouse, 2023
The new edition by Simon Evans™ entitled This American Dollhouse depicts the cross-section of the artists' Brooklyn apartment as part theater part real-life dollhouse. As one moves from the top floor to lower levels, the veneer of cleanliness and order progressively erodes.
The single figure in this scene–simultaneously villainous and heroic–stands in the kitchen alone with arms outstretched, crying out expressively. While certain objects point to the artists specifically (artworks reproduced in their basement studio, the chess set in the living room), these spaces represent a universal experience: the daily and habitual patterns of life and domesticity, city living, and our fraught relationship with material belongings.
Simon Evans™ is the artistic collaboration between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. The artists create dense text-based collages saturated with short, poetic phrases, drawings, and images often created from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside of the studio. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony. With a wry brand of melancholy, Simon Evans™ presents us with a laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, advertisements, diary entries, inventories, and cosmologies that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope.
Exclusively on Artspace: May 16, 2023.
Only 8 available.
$3,500 USD
Exclusively Available Now: Insecurity Card by Simon Evans™
Excerpt from Phaidon's 2023 catalogue Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
"Insecurity Card remakes the familiar US Social Security card as a talisman of precarity. 'I am still just a thing in someone else's story' can be read beneath the card's 'insecurity number'. Evidence of a life is here mapped and tracked inside a nation state that renders some, if not most, vulnerable and without agency. Across all of Simon Evans's work, the interplay between the subjective experience and humanity of the individual, the environmental conditions imposed upon them and the violent inequities of the world finds expression in how form and content come together in text and image."
About the Gallery
James Cohan Gallery opened in New York City in September 1999 with an inaugural exhibition of early photo-pieces by Gilbert & George. James Cohan's diverse programming includes solo exhibitions of gallery artists and two thematic group exhibitions every year. Celebrating the 20th anniversary, James Cohan opened a new space in Tribeca with an inaugural show of work by Josiah McElheny in September 2019. In October 2021, the gallery opened a second space in Tribeca with an exhibition by Gauri Gill.
In the past six years, the gallery has welcomed new artists Firelei Báez, Kathy Butterly, Omer Fast, Federico Herrero, Mernet Larsen, Teresa Margolles, Josiah McElheny, Jesse Mockrin, the Estate of Lee Mullican, Naudline Pierre, The Propeller Group, Matthew Ritchie, Elias Sime, and Grace Weaver to its program, reinforcing its commitment to championing artists whose work, for all its rich disparity, is fundamentally grounded in rigorous engagement with physical and ideological place. Each artist in the gallery program seeks to reimagine the contemporary human experience by engaging critically with historical precedent while negotiating identity through materiality and process.
