- Mother Lode: Material and Memory - Exhibitions

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Installation view, Mother Lode: Material and Memory, James Cohan, 48 and 52 Walker St, New York, NY, June 21 - July 26, 2024

KELLY AKASHI

Cultivator (Cored), 2021

Hand-blown glass, comb red marble, bronze, flame-worked borosilicate, plaster, walnut pedestal

8 x 8 x 13 in; 20.3 x 20.3 x 33 cm (marble hand)
42 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in; 106.7 x 59.7 x 59.7 cm (overall)

Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

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ALMA ALLEN

Not Yet Titled, 2022

Bronze

33 1/8 x 38 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
84 x 97 x 92 cm

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RICHARD VAN BUREN

Adelaide, 1970/2023

Polyester resin, dry pigments, fiberglass and rock salt

80 x 33 1/2 x 8 inches
203.2 x 85.1 x 20.3 cm

Photo: Christopher Burke Studio

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KATHY BUTTERLY

Gem, 2024

porcelain, earthenware, glaze

8 1/4 x 5 5/8 x 6 1/4 in
21 x 14.3 x 15.9 cm

Photo: Alan Wiener

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SARAH CHARLESWORTH

Flower Lamp, 2002

Cibachrome with lacquered wood frame

28 1/2 x 23 in
72.4 x 58.4 cm

Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs

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ANN CRAVEN

Moon (Through the Branches, NYC), 2022, 2022

Oil on canvas

60 x 48 in
152.4 x 121.9 cm

Courtesy the Artist and Karma

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ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS

Autorretrato ciego bebiendo burbujitas sin denominación de origen controlado, rumiando la deliciosa pizza Margherita que hicieron Ana y Ale, después de haber jugado a la tiendita y haber salido a aplaudir a los cuerpos médicos en la emergencia sanitaria, después de tres semanas de confinamiento, escuchando ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ en la versión de Santo y Johnny Farina, muy conmovido, intentando leer otra vez el hermoso poema de James Longenbach ‘Forever’, 2020

Wicker acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins and steel pins on wall. Installation of 196 pieces.

70 7/8 x 110 1/4 in
180 x 280 cm

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N. DASH

TH_24, 2024

Earth, acrylic, silkscreen ink, string,
styrofoam, jute

39 x 68 in.
99.1 x 172.7 cm

Courtesy of N.Dash and Mehdi Chouakri Berlin

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MOYRA DAVEY

Ferns, 2023

Pigment print

10 x 8 in
25.4 x 20.3 cm

Edition 3 of 5 + 2 AP

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LEONARDO DREW

Number 393D, 2024

Wood, paint, and calcium carbonate on paper

34 ¾ x 34 ¾ x 9 in. (88.3 x 88.3 x 22.9 cm)
Framed: 38 x 38 x 10 ⅞ in. (96.5 x 96.5 x 27.6 cm)

Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.

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BRACHA ETTINGER

Annunciation - Birthing - Pieta n.2, 2017-2021

Oil on canvas

9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in (25 x 25 cm)
Framed: 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 2 in (31.4 x 31.4 x 5.1 cm)

Photo: Matthew Herrmann

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ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN

Someone Else’s Hand, Someone Else’s Name, Something for Everyone, 1990–1993

Joss paper, notepaper, laser prints, oil on linen

Triptych, each: 42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 cm)

Photo: Gregory Carideo

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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER

Self-Portrait with Shea and Her Daughter, Zion, in the Bedroom Mirror, Newton, Mississippi, 2017 - 2019

Gelatin silver print

30 x 40 in

76.2 x 101.6 cm (unframed)

34 x 44 in

86.4 x 111.8 cm (framed)

Edition 3 of 5 + 2AP

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REGGIE BURROWS HODGES

Mom and Me: Dark Pass, 2019

Acrylic and pastel on canvas

26 7/8 x 22

Courtesy of the artist and Karma

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GARY HUME

Ladderback Chair, 2016

Enamel paint on aluminum

81 3/4 x 50 1/2 in
207.6 x 128.3 cm

Photo: Matthew Herrmann

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LUCHITA HURTADO

Untitled, c. 1970's

Signed on face

Crayon on paper

11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Framed Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches (37.5 x 45.1 cm)

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LOTUS L. KANG

Mesoderm (Flora II), 2024

Photogram, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals, tanned and unfixed film (continually sensitive), cast aluminum anchovies, spherical magnets

48 x 40 in
121.9 x 101.6 cm

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CLEMENTINE KEITH-ROACH

all sides endlessness earth sky as one no sound no stir, 2023

terracotta urn, plaster, resin clay, acrylic paint

20 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 15 in
53 x 47 x 38 cm

Courtesy of James Cohan

Photo: Damian Griffiths

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ANTONIA KUO

Nocturne II, 2024

Unique chemical painting on light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, cast aluminum and ceramic sculptural relief, powder coated aluminum in aluminum frame

81 x 58 1/2 in.
205.7 x 148.6 cm

Courtesy of the artist, James Cohan, and Chapter NY

Photo: Dan Bradica

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MERNET LARSEN

Weight Lifter, 1999

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

102 x 46 in.
259.1 x 116.8 cm

Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle

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HEIDI LAU

Celadon Clouds, 2024

Glazed Ceramic

11 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
29.2 x 26.7 x 8.9 cm

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JUNE LEAF

The Cradle, 1994

Acrylic on canvas, wire

44 1/2 x 56 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
113 x 142.9 x 3.8 cm

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YASUE MAETAKE

点火 [tenka], 2022

stained and polymer coated found tree branches, casted aluminum, forged and polished found brass, gold leaf, pigmented lobster’s tail shell casted with polyester resin

22 x 23 x 10 in
55.9 x 58.4 x 25.4 cm

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WALLEN MAPONDERA

Dhoiri n°28, 2023

Egg carton cutouts, waxed thread and dust on canvas

42 1/2 x 36 1/4 in
108 x 92.1 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Mitterrand

Photo: Aurélien Mole

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TERESA MARGOLLES

Fuentes de Frutas / Fruit Bowls, 2020

Two ceramic bowls made with a mixture of clay and Chilean tailings
Photograph of one of the tailings from an artisanal mine in Inca de Oro, Atacama desert, Chile.

Ceramic objects: Circle 17.25 x 17 in (44 x 43 cm); Oval 17.5 x 14.75 in (44 x 37 cm)
Photograph: 40 x 120 cm unframed

Photo: Matthew Herrmann

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TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN

Field Afire, 2024

Stainless steel with bomb metal, brass artillery shell, aluminum, paracord, bells tuned to 432Hz

78 3/4 x 86 5/8 in.
200 x 220 cm

Photo: Dan Bradica

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GABRIEL OROZCO

Untitled, 2019

Tempera and gold leaf on canvas

47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
120 x 120 cm

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HOWARDENA PINDELL

Untitled (Space Frame), 1968

Signed and dated, verso

Acrylic and pastel on canvas

42 1/4 x 66 1/2 in
107.3 x 168.9 cm

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MARIANNA PINEDA

Eve Celebrant: Sereghetti I, 1986

Bronze

27 x 8 x 18 in
68.6 x 20.3 x 45.7 cm

Edition of 5

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GARNETT PUETT

Forged Dance, Subconscious Dark Matter (1), 2019

Wax, forged steel

Overall: 72 x 20 x 20 in / 182.9 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Virtine: 36 x 20 x 20 in / 91.4 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm

Photo: Dan Bradica

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RONNY QUEVEDO

measures of a dream deferred (north and south look the same from the equator), 2022

Pattern paper on unstretched muslin

89 x 44 7/8 in. (226.1 x 114 cm)

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MAJA RUZNIC

MOM, 2024

Oil on linen

14 x 11 in
35.6 x 27.9 cm

Courtesy the Artist and Karma

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JOAN SEMMEL

Untitled, 1979

Signed and dated on recto

Oil crayon and collage on paper

30 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.
76.5 x 51.1 cm

Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle

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ERIN SHIRREFF

Spatial Moto, 2023

Dye sublimation prints on aluminum, latex paint

Framed dimensions: 49 1/4 x 41 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (125.1 x 104.8 x 14.6 cm)

Edition 5 of 5

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ROSE B. SIMPSON

Of Matter 1, 2023

Steel, ceramic, wood, grout, hide, and twine

70 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 24 in
178.4 x 47 x 61 cm

Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Photo: Addison Doty

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MICHELLE STUART

Petroglyph, Three Rivers, New Mexico, 1978

Earth, graphite, muslin-mounted paper, photographs by artist from 1978, assembled in 2010

32 3/4 x 38 3/4 in (framed)
83.2 x 98.4 cm (framed)

Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

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ANTONIO TARSIS

Untitled (Weaving Brick), 2023

Guarany Fósforos de Segurança matchbox balsa wood and paper

38 5/8 x 37 1/4 x 2 in
98.1 x 94.6 x 5.1 cm

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SARA VANDERBEEK

Lace Interlace (Memory Work), 2024

UV Print on Plexiglas, Aluminum, Zinc Plated Steel, Diebond

48 1/4 x 36 1/4 in
122.6 x 92.1 cm

Unique + 1 AP

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WILLA WASSERMAN

Apple tree gemel, 2023

Oil on patinated bronze

80 x 18 in
203 x 46 cm
84 x 21.75 x 1.5 in (framed)
213 x 55 x 4 cm (framed)

Photo: Dario Lasagni

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EMMI WHITEHORSE

Rincon Marquez at Night, 1987

Signed and dated, verso

Mixed media on canvas

32 x 48 in.
81.3 x 121.9 cm

Photo: Matthew Herrmann

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YU-WEN WU

Intentions (s9), 2024

Gilded tea leaves, red string

87 x 45 in
221 x 114.3 cm

Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle

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Press Release

James Cohan is pleased to present Mother Lode: Material and Memory, organized by Abigail Ross Goodman, Molly Epstein, and Ellen Langan, on view from June 21 through July 26, 2024, at 48 and 52 Walker Street. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, June 21 from 6-8 PM.

“Mother lode” is a term used to indicate the primary vein of a valuable resource, or, more colloquially, to point to the real or imagined origin of something of great import or abundance. Plumbing the possibilities of this linguistic trope, this exhibition brings together more than forty artistic practices, choreographed in chapters as a collective cohabitation that offers myriad ruminations on beginnings. The artists included deploy both memory and material as generative forces, probing ideas of land as Mother Earth, the bonds of mother and child, the physical accumulation of experience, and the tending nature of ongoing diaristic pursuits. From the development of personal mythologies to processes laid bare through the cycles of extraction and regeneration, the works in this exhibition span form and medium, dating from the late 1960s to the present day. They capture the universality of lineage that unfurls in the activities of making and the inherent truths discovered in process.

The exhibition posits the questions: How do artists engage with their own origins, their own “primary vein”? How does the accretion of material experimentation in itself birth an unfolding story as told by the artist’s hand? How do artistic practices pay homage to the notions of care, both physical and emotional, of this abundant material world and the humans who mingle with and mine from it?

Mother Lode: Material and Memory features work by Kelly Akashi, Alma Allen, Mark Bradford, Richard Van Buren, Kathy Butterly, Sarah Charlesworth, Ann Craven, Abraham Cruzvillegas, N. Dash, Moyra Davey, Leonardo Drew, Bracha Ettinger, Rochelle Feinstein, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nancy Graves, Luchita Hurtado, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Gary Hume, Lotus L. Kang, Clementine Keith-Roach, Antonia Kuo, Mernet Larsen, Heidi Lau, June Leaf, Yasue Maetake, Wallen Mapondera, Teresa Margolles, Nick Mauss, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Gabriel Orozco, Julia Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Marianna Pineda, Garnett Puett, Ronny Quevedo, Maja Ruznic, Grace Schwindt, Joan Semmel, Erin Shirreff, Rose B. Simpson, Michelle Stuart, Antonio Tarsis, Sara VanDerBeek, Willa Wasserman, Emmi Whitehorse, and Yu-Wen Wu.

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