Jennifer Dalton, Making Sense

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FLAG Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street, 9th floor
Chelsea
July 30 - September 10, 2010
Opening: Thursday, July 8, 6 - 8 PM
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What Does an Artist Look Like? (Every Photograph of an Artist to Appear in the New Yorker Magazine 1999-2001), 2002, 432 hand-labeled and laminated photographs 40 feet long as installed. Courtesy of FLAG Art Foundation.. Courtesy of FLAG Art Foundation.

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Like an archaeologist of the present-day, Jennifer Dalton collects and examines cultural information, organizes and evaluates this information according to her own personal criteria, and then displays her findings. These displays take the form of drawings, photographs or sculptural installations consisting of assembled or handmade objects. In Making Sense, she analyzes the cultural institutions Facebook, the New Yorker, and Artforum, testing her own biases and hypotheses and applying taxonomies where they might not be expected. Her process is quasi-scientific, at the intersection where apparently objective data encounters low-tech and personal methods and conclusions.

Jennifer Dalton lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA in Fine Art from UCLA and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She received a Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant in 2002 and a Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship for 2005-2006, and she has spent time in residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony. Her work has been discussed in Artforum , ArtNEWS, Art + Auction, Art in America, Flash Art, New York Magazine, Modern Painters, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Her work has recently been exhibited at Winkleman Gallery, New York; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; The Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY; and Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.