This piece is part of Take This Feeling of Doom and Do a Little Dance With It, a dialogic exhibition by Todd Colby and Marianne Vitale on view at Picture Room from February 15 – April 12, 2024. The show includes both individual and collaborative works by Colby and Vitale, who have been working as collaborators since 1993.
Todd Colby (b. 1962, Minnesota) is a visual artist and poet who works in Northampton, Massachusetts and Brooklyn, New York. Colby has recently presented work at Platform Project Space, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Tanya Grunert Gallery, Legion Arts, and White Columns Artist Registry. He has given readings at DIA Art Foundation, MoMA PS1, The Public Theater, Hudson Opera House, and The Poetry Project, among others. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently, It’s Okay to See Ghosts Now (Spiral Editions, 2023).
Marianne Vitale (b. 1973) is an artist living and working in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY (1996). Her practice combines mediums with a focus on sculpture. She has been described as a surveyor, under-taker and soothsayer of hard truths, conveyed poetically. Vitale’s work was recently celebrated as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, with a large-scale outdoor installation Bottles and Bridges: Advances in Collective Obliteration. Vitale’s work has been exhibited throughout New York including with The Whitney Museum of American Art; The High Line; The Brooklyn Museum; The Journal Gallery; White Columns; Karma; Zach Feuer Gallery; The Sculpture Center; Invisible-Exports; The Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton; and Performa.
Acrylic and oil on canvas
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