ELAD LASSRY PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION

AT DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY

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Elad Lassry

March 23 –– May 26, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, March 23, 6:00––9:00pm

Elad Lassry: Untitled (Presence 2005)

A performance work featuring members of the New York City Ballet

March 2, 2012

Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles

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David Kordansky Gallery is very pleased to announce its second exhibition of new work by Elad Lassry, opening March 23 and open through May 26, 2012.  The show will reflect an expansive sense of the picture as an ontological category, one in which a viewer's customary associations with familiar forms are exposed to physical and perceptual paradoxes. Associated with this exhibition, Elad Lassry will premiere a performance work featuring members of the New York City Ballet, Untitled (Presence 2005), on March 2, 2012 at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles.

 Lassry has increasingly looked to diverse media––including drawing, sculpture, and performance––to test current possibilities for engagement with pictures.  In each case, the ability to recognize a given subject presents itself as a faculty on the verge of failure, a dissonant constellation of formal characteristics and competing cultural histories.  By incorporating objects and immersive situations into his practice, Lassry blurs the boundary between the tangible and cognitive experiences of a picture.  As such, his work is indicative of the way in which the virtual defines contemporary culture, not merely on a technological level, but as an embodied mode of perception.