Tony Tasset

Press Release

Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!, an exhibition of new works by Tony Tasset. This is the artist's first show with CvsD. The centerpiece of the exhibition is "Brick Barrow," a new sculpture in bronze patinated to an incredible lifelikeness, but just out of scale, magnified to a point of being eerily more than real, perhaps unreal. Another 3-D work, a cast aluminum eagle, finds the national bird taking on an expressionistic but slightly defeated mien. On the perimeter of the South Gallery hang Tasset's new paintings, a spectrum of monochromatic canvases distressed in spots, sometimes to the point of having ragged holes. Perched like a putty eagle somewhere between the elegant and the pathetic, these works are augmented by a new video work, "My Lear," produced by and co-directed with Jennifer Reeder, enjoying its world debut in the North Gallery space, featuring the artist performing a Shakespeare monologue in his studio.

Tony Tasset (b. 1960, Cincinnati, OH) lives and works in Sawyer, Michigan. Major exhibitions of Tasset's work include Front International: Cleveland Triennial For Contemporary Art; 2014 Whitney Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner; Tony Tasset: As It Is, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, curated by Helen Molesworth, ICA, Boston; Life During Wartime, Walker Art Center; and Unnatural Rubber, Andy Warhol Museum. Tasset’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum für Moderne Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco MOMA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago.