diana zlotnick

Collection and Exhibition Project with Collector Diana Zlotnick, February 2009

“The Past, Present and Future Done Here/ The Father, Son and Holy Ghost is an examination of societal modernization integrated into visual art works that will be presented in conjunction with a curatorial presentation of works by Raymond Pettibon, John Baldessari and Christopher Burden. The information here ranges from referencing my father’s profession as an auto refinisher, American modernization of various technologies to natural disasters and car wrecks attached to sculpture, video, furniture and paintings. I’m interested in visual art’s ability to present order through what I view as natural or practical sensibilities akin to a modernization that is obviously still influenced by disorder in everyday reality. The curatorial work acts as a reference to the historical usage and presentations by these particular artists of pop culture, society and performance, which has continued to propel contemporary art into a re-modernization if you will. I think it’s fair to say that an evolvement of artists today as well as curators, collectors and dealers is connected to something relative to these notions of modernity and moving forward. The project itself hints at this generalization through Diana’s generosity of allowing me to curate part of her collection as a conceptual artwork as well as the presentation of a recent collected piece of my own by Raymond Pettibon to be presented similarly. Mostly this project acts as a proposal for validating current presentations of modernism artistically that are influenced socially, while also proposing a equalization of the variable roles that operate the art world.”

My Birthdate (1978), Xerox Print , 35×20, Edition of 10, 2009

Me in My Father’s Position, Xerox Print, 35×20 inches, Unique (1/1), 2009

Exterior View, Baldessari, Collection of Diana Zlotnick, With Exterior Reflection and Bubble Gum/Chair Prop, 2010

Exterior View, Burden, Collection of Diana Zlotnick and dvd Collection of Michael Decker, w/ Past, Present, Future/Father, Son, Holy Ghost and Window With Exterior Reflection, 2011

Home Interior, Raymond Pettibon Collection of Diana Zlotnick Except Barely Noble (Dog) Collection of Artist, w/ Past, Present, Future/Father Son Holy Ghost Installation and Sculptures w/ Exterior View of Dogs Video With Nature (2008), 2010

The Readers, Choreographed Performance Still and Study, Avram and Carey Reading Baldessari, Burden and Pettibon, To be printed as Digital C-Print, 2010

Axe in Log, Sculptural Performance Still Life, To be printed as Digital C-Print, 2010