Alex Gingrow

Alex Gingrow maakt kunst over kunst.

I used to work for a couple of galleries in New York, but these days I keep a day job at a frame shop in Midtown Manhattan. What I enjoy about the shop is that I have tangible, private access to much of the New York art scene without having to feel like so much of a dirty insider. The secret, however, is that the frame shop is really just the art world version of the neighborhood barbershop. Gossip comes and goes all day. Sales and purchases are as plain and naked as the newborn babe. I have incorporated this unfettered access into my current series of work by appropriating various provenance stickers from the backs of frames and portfolios and retitling the stickers with my own name, titles, and specs. The titles are born from conversations I have overheard at the shop, at galleries, or are things friends have passed along to me from their respective art jobs, or are declarations that I would like pass along to the galleries myself.

Oftewel een ontzettend scherpe maar humorvolle handelingen. Of kunnen we ook spreken over werk hier? In elk geval een onderzoek naar integriteit zoals hij het zelf noemt, en we kunnen het niet anders benoemen. Ben benieuwd hoeveel klachten hij gehad heeft en of überhaupt iemand het in de gaten heeft gehad.