DCKT Contemporary presents new paintings by TIMOTHY TOMPKINS. The exhibition includes works from his ongoing Media series and debuts paintings from his new Nebula series.

The inspirations for TOMPKINS’s paintings stem from his engagement with the tropes and language of the medium’s history. TOMPKINS begins his process of digitally altering found photographs by breaking the images down to core colors and by effect blurring the contours. He then uses high-gloss commercial enamel to execute the paintings on aluminum panels. The paintings, when viewed from a distance, reflect both physically and metaphorically a relational narrative which, upon closer inspection, dissolves into form and color. The artist communicates a sense of removal from the present and a conceptual representation of social, cultural, and personal "memory.”

DCKT Contemporary presents new works by RYAN HUMPHREY in All or Nothing, his second solo exhibition at the gallery. The symbolism of fearlessness, triumphant rebirth and its process is evident throughout the exhibition. The works utilize low-brow materials commonplace during HUMPHREY’s youth in blue-collar rural Ohio combined with more traditional artistic media.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LIA HALLORAN’s second New York solo exhibition. The ten photographs on view were taken at night in various Los Angeles locations ranging from spaces appropriated by skateboarders, such as the Los Angeles River, to skate parks and backyard ramps.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present EXENE CERVENKA’s second New York solo exhibition featuring two new bodies of work deeply invested in the aesthetics of American culture: “The Spirits Are Alive and Well” and “EPIC HERO”. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, June 20 from 6 - 8pm.

Through the manipulation of historical imagery, JOSH AZZARELLA creates stills and videos which radically alter the contexts and meanings of images ingrained in the public conscience. How individual and collective memories form, the possibilities of confusing memories with realities or creating memories where none previously existed are all key to his oeuvre.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Michael VELLIQUETTE’s first New York solo exhibition. Sheets of multi-colored archival card stock are hand-cut then glued, working from background to foreground, onto a paper backing in successive layers. Narratives ranging from the intimate to the epic address ongoing philosophical quandaries of the human condition including questions of self, other, place, transformation and transcendence.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present The Middle of the End, new photo-sculptures and installations by Spanish born, New York based artist Isidro BLASCO. In this latest body of work, BLASCO uses digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce Out the Window (LAX), a one-person exhibition of photographs by ZOE CROSHER. The exhibition marks the release of a monograph published by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and featuring essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer and Julian Myers.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce the first New York exhibition of painter Lia HALLORAN. The six figure paintings in the show explore physical forces of nature and the possibilities of how these forces interact with, intersect and fragment the body.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition by the collaborative artists castaneda/reiman. Their latest body of work focuses on the natural scenic environments existing on the fringes of the urban landscape, their various interpretations and how these areas are reflected within domestic spaces.

For his first exhibition at DCKT Contemporary, Aaron Krach stakes a claim to a piece of the rich and varied history of artists inspired by New York City. “My new work fits somewhere between late, jazzy Piet Mondrian and early, East Village Madonna,” says Krach. “It’s a genuine but perhaps futile attempt to capture the beauty of Manhattan streets and the sex appeal of pure, unadulterated pop culture.”

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce representation of Oliver BOBERG and his first exhibition with the gallery. Works from the Seiten / Pages series will be debuted as well as films from the Nacht-Orte / Night Sites series.

Christina RAY invites you to damage DCKT Contemporary by proxy through her enactment of collected requests. Prior to the opening of the show, the DAMAGE interactive website will allow visitors to mark a spot to be damaged on a virtual map of the gallery and to submit a message, poem, story or other text relating to the concept of damage. Based on the submissions, RAY will inflict physical damage points on the actual wall space which will generate the pattern for a large-scale wall drawing.

For Ryan HUMPHREY’s first exhibition with DCKT Contemporary, the artist will show round paintings made to resemble practice targets in a variety of diameters. At first glance the paintings are seemingly decorative but upon closer examination one sees that they have in fact been riddled with bullet holes.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present EXENE CERVENKA’s first New York exhibition. On view in America the Beautiful will be journals and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X. The exhibition was originally organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art and guest curators Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan.

With her signature medium of stitched needlepoint images, PIÑERES confronts media-saturated contemporary culture’s favorite guilty-or-not-guilty pleasure: the celebrity mug shot.

Manifest Destiny takes its title from a rhetorical document written in 1839 by John L. O’Sullivan which advocated the belief that it is America’s God-given right to expand outwards and dominate the continent in the name of economic and political security. On a global level, TOMPKINS’ paintings exist within the framework of the current political climate manifesting itself today where certain disturbing parallels and connections could be made between the Jackson Administration and the Bush Administration.

In this latest body of photo-sculptures, BLASCO uses digital photography, common building materials, and video to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape.

Rosana Castrillo Díaz
Augusto Di Stefano
Dan Steinhilber

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce MARIO M. MULLER’s second New York solo exhibition. The show will consist of India ink drawings from The Las Vegas Suite (2004-5), ranging in scale from 45×68 inches to 26×40 inches. This exhibition marks the debut of MULLER’s Las Vegas Suite which was begun in 2004 and which the artist sees as an on-going series.

Helen Altman, Chris Ballantyne, Isidro Blasco, castaneda/reiman, Zoe Crosher, Kim Krans, David Lefkowitz, Mario M. Muller, Maria E. Piñeres, Christina Ray, William Swanson, Tony de los Reyes, Timothy Tompkins

Sophie Crumb, Davis/Langlois, Tom Fabritius, Tom Gallant, Lia Halloran, Portia Hein, Rashid Johnson, Marcel Van Eeden

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce KIM KRANS’ first New York solo exhibition …but whatever it was, it came out of the trees. Drawing, painting and collaging fur, leather, metal, sequins, feathers, and beads, KRANS creates suspenseful landscape compositions with highly-charged emotional impact. On view will be two large scale works along with a series of smaller drawings.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce ZOE CROSHER’s first New York solo exhibition, LA-Like. In this series, CROSHER continues photographing her native Los Angeles, this time focusing her lens on the decidedly photogenic Los Angeles subjects of sunlight and lush foliage.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce DAVID LEFKOWITZ’s first New York solo exhibition, Improvised Structures. Working with watercolor and colored pencil on corrugated cardboard, LEFKOWITZ renders architectural structures that hover between abstract geometric forms and literal renderings of stacks of cardboard boxes.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce TONY de los REYES’ first New York solo exhibition The Strange Tale of Near & Far. Working with oil alkyd in a palette of blues and whites reminiscent of Delftware, Toile de Jouy, and 18th century chinoiserie, de los REYES’ latest series depicts scenes from a mythical Baroque journey involving ships, oceanic passages and fertile lands.

William SWANSON’s work attempts to visualize the workings of modern, post-industrial landscapes by hovering the line between landscape and abstraction, between the real and the synthetic. Using a palette that is both soothing and insolent, SWANSON’s paints recognizable forms combined with abstract marking. The results are illusory images that suggest the familiar as well as the fantastic.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce a two person show of works by HILLEVI BAAR and PAMELA HARRIS. Each artist begins with the act of drawing, venturing in different directions with their work.

Corin Hewitt, Shih-Chieh Huang, Paul Ramirez Jonas, kanarinka, Mario M. Muller, ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, Christina Ray, Swoon, Alex Villar, Lee Walton

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition of TIMOTHY TOMPKINS. The paintings explore consumerism in contemporary society and allude to previous art historical themes and practices. TOMPKINS begins by digitally altering his own photographs, breaking the images down to between 12 and 15 core colors and blurring the contours. TOMPKINS then uses high-gloss commercial enamel sign paint on aluminum panels to execute his paintings. The quick-drying nature of the paint, manufactured by 1 Shot, enhances its expressive liquidity and materiality. Often, the contours of the underdrawing and small areas of the aluminum support are still visible, as if the image is still forming.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new works by MARIA E. PIÑERES. In her current body of work, PIÑERES stitches images culled from snapshots of friends, celebrity portraits, shoes, and 70’s erotica set against her re-creations of familiar textile patterns.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new photo-sculptures by Isidro Blasco. In his current body of work, "Thinking About That Place", Blasco photographes the apartment and building he and his family inhabit and creates three-dimensional constructions with common building materials.

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce HELEN ALTMAN’s first solo exhibition in New York. On view are three moving blankets and a selection of torch drawings. In this exhibition, ALTMAN explores notions of reality versus artificiality in everyday life. ALTMAN adheres to themes on imitation nature touched on in her earlier work.