Joe DeNardo, Untitled, mixed media collage, 18 x 22 in., 2008
Aaron Henderson, Motive, high definition video, 3 min, 2008

PRESS RELEASE

normal projects is pleased to announce the first in a series of quarterly two person exhibitions with work by Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson.

Joe DeNardo with Kevin Doria performs as GROWING. With performances at the New Museum, Swiss Institute, PS 1, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, DeNardo's context to contemporary art has been in collaboration. Here DeNardo expands with collage work derivative of endless landscapes and travel with stacking of memory, location, and placement. These made environments, precise and considered, touch on a duality of clean lines and situated architecture against the forest, desert canyons or landscape beyond.

Aaron Henderson examines motion and performance in Motive (2008). Filmed with University of Minnesota cheerleaders provides a historical reference to the sport as Henderson pursues the relevance of gesture. Motive flickers a linear shuffle; each of the eight cheerleaders creating a static, a visual blur or noise, though no actual sound is present in the piece. It features and capitulates the slight nuances of each cheerleader in each movement. Their apparent need and want to successfully align themselves, to be one, displays Henderson's notion of social and political ramifications of actions.

normal projects exhibits work on paper and video by emerging and established contemporary artists. This exhibition will be on view from September 12th - October 25th, 2008. There will be an artists' reception from 6-8p on September 12th. For more information, please email Emily Schroeder at normalprojects@gmail.com or call 917 312-8889.

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