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Lucy McKenzie
Lucy McKenzie
Untitled, 2005
Courtesy The Artist and Metro Pictures, New York
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For the Triennial, McKenzie is showing Untitled, which
employs the visual language of cartoon art to
depict a young woman eating in a restaurant, incongruously seated
beneath a framed scene of a woman masturbating taken from the
erotic comic book Click!.
The scenario is based on McKenzie's invitation to dine at a private art
foundation that had its own restaurant. The works on display included
Jeff Koons' photographs Made in Heaven 1990, which feature sexually
explicit poses performed by his wife, porn star Cicciolina. For McKenzie
this experience blurred the separation between a social space for dining
and the rarefied space for contemporary art.
Biography
Born in 1977 in Glasgow
1995–1999 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005
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SMERSH, Metro Pictures, New York
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2004
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Bi-Curious, Cabinet, London
Deathwatch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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2003
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Nova Popularna, Foundation Galerie Foksal, Warsaw (with Paulina Olowska)
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2003
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Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale
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2002
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Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
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Lives and works in Glasgow
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