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On occasion of Jan Dickey’s solo exhibition, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, we invite you to join us Saturday, October 17th for an afternoon of art history hosted by the artist with presentations by John W. Wagner, Emily Chun, and Laurie Gwen Shapiro. The presenters will explore the work of American painters William Glackens, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Eva Hesse. During the Q&A portion the presenters will answer questions about the work and Jan will field questions about the exhibition.

To RSVP DM or email us at contact@dddd.pictures!

𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙒. 𝙒𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙧 is a poet, craps dealer, and street preacher based in the Northeast Megalopolis. His voice is his instrument and his words are its notation. As a self-described ‘blue collar autodidact’, he lacks formal training, for which he compensates with a nimiety of life experience. A book of his poems, Anyway, was published in 2025 and is available on Amazon.

𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙣 is an art writer and doctoral candidate in art history at Stanford focused on sculpture in 1989. Her writing about art has appeared in various publications such as Art in America, Frieze, e-flux, ArtReview, the Brooklyn Rail, among others.

𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙚 𝙂𝙬𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙤 is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. She is the author of the bestselling The Stowaway and The Aviator and the Showman, named one of the year’s best books by NPR, The New Yorker, and Smithsonian. An adjunct professor of journalism at NYU, she is working on Einstein in America for Viking.

Compression runs from October 14 - November 14. The opening reception will be held on October 16th, 6-8pm by @emchun

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Today’s the final day of @springbreakartshow. Huge thanks to @whitehotmagazine on the inclusion of @emchun and my booth in their article. by @emchun

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So excited to be curating @briannapier’s sculptures at this year’s Spring/Break art fair. The fair runs next week from 9/23-9/28. Come visit us at booth D30.

I’ve been a big fan of Brian’s sculptural practice for a long time, as it is one that is equal parts materially rigorous and conceptually surprising. He uses machinic programming and operations of chance to explore how elements of a sculpture can disappear or hide. This will be the first time all of his recent & new sculptures are exhibited in one setting. Some of them take historical forms – such as an ancient Nereid lion sculpture at the British Museum – and transform them using software in order to visualize their negative space. They take inspiration from industrial die cast molds and mass production machinery. by @emchun

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Love and Form, Part I

by Emily Chun

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@emchun on love through the impersonality of form: the possibility of intimacy through the "brutal indifference" of autonomous artistic form. With formal analyses of Manet's "Olympia", an Albers color study, and Hirshfield's "Two Women In Front of a Mirror".

Read the full essay at perseity.nyc by @emchun

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D. D. D. D. is pleased to share that John Hee Taek Chae’s solo exhibition, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥, has been reviewed in @brooklynrail by Emily Chun. The exhibition is on view until June 20th at D. D. D. D. Read the full article in our bio!

@emchun is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Stanford University

We are open Wednesday through Saturday 11-6pm

For questions or inquiries DM or email us at contact@dddd.pictures by @emchun

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An exhibition centered on a videoed 1981 performance by Park Hyunki may be, at its core, “about mediation itself.” For Emily Chun, the work raises complex questions not only about Park’s place in Korean art history but the difficulty of viewing past performance work at a mediated remove.

Read at the link in bio.

#emilychun #parkhyunki #galleryhyundai

@emchun @galleryhyundai

Images: [1-3] Park Hyunki, Pass Through the City, 1981. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai, New York. by @emchun

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Great year by @emchun

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Review of @samuelcguy’s incredible show at @auxierkline. Catch it before it closes this Friday! by @emchun

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Wrote about Man Ray for the Brooklyn Rail 🌹 by @emchun

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I interviewed the legendary Tehching Hsieh for @artinamerica and their Fall icons issue. It’s hard to think of an artist more radical than Tehching whose year-long performances in the late ‘70s not only collapsed art and life, but in their extremity were able to totally confuse the distinctions between recordable ‘clock’ time and subjective ‘lived’ time which Bergson described as a sort of a qualitative indwelling experience of time. Decades later his work remains strange and incomprehensible in the best way. Link in bio 💘 by @emchun

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Exhibition Review: “The Making of a New World: Art of the 1980s” at Hollis Taggart Gallery, Chelsea (on view through August 30). Curated by Emily Chun

Here is an excerpt from my review on my Substack, Art & Ponder:

Retro-cultural nostalgia has filtered into every corner of our lives - film & television programs, books, fashion trends, and now, art exhibitions. The Making of a New World is by no means a mere look back on what was in vogue during the 1980s. If someone were to approach it from that angle, you would just have a show on Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, Krueger, Longo, et al. There’s nothing wrong with these artists as Neo-Expressionism and the Pictures Generation are among the most important modern / post-modern movements that took the American art world by storm. But the reality is that there was a much broader art scene out there concurrent with these major stylistic strains. Hollis Taggart’s in-house curator Emily Chun opens our eyes to the manifold creative developments occurring in American art of the 1980s that considers cultural diversity and visual / material variance.

#hollistaggart #hollistaggartgalleries #hollistaggartgallery #1980s #1980sart #80snostalgia #edruscha #charlesbell #julesolitski #keithharingart #keithharing #frankstella #seanscully #johnchamberlain #abstractexpression #abstractexpressionist #figurativerealism #mixedmediapainting #arthistory #historyofart #arthistorian #artcritic #artcritics #artcriticism #artreview #artwriter #artwriting #chelseaart #chelseagalleries #chelseagallery taken in Chelsea, Manhattan by @emchun

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