Since opening in 2004, Corbett vs. Dempsey has presented a range of international artists as well as artists connected with the historical and contemporary legacy of Chicago. The gallery’s mission has included extensive exploration of widely known artists, including Ellen Berkenblit, Brian Calvin, Arturo Herrera, Charline von Heyl, Dick Higgins, Rebecca Morris, Albert Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Arlene Shechet, and Christopher Wool, supporting emerging and mid-career figures including Christina Forrer, Gabrielle Garland, Magalie Guérin, David Hartt, Celeste Rapone, Rebecca Shore, Lui Shtini, Cauleen Smith, John Sparagana, Omar Velázquez, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and championing artists of critical significance to post-war Chicago including Margot Bergman, Dominick Di Meo, Edward Flood, Philip Hanson, Thomas H. Kapsalis, Robert Lostutter, Christina Ramberg, Diane Simpson, Karl Wirsum, and Jimmy Wright.
Creative music has always been a feature of the gallery’s activities; in addition to having its own record label, CvsD is proud to represent Peter Brötzmann and the estate of Sun Ra.
Member Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).
Image: Installation view of Christopher Wool, February 8–March 30, 2019. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
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Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!, an exhibition of new works by Tony Tasset. This is the artist's first show with CvsD. The centerpiece of the exhibition is \"Brick Barrow,\" a new sculpture in bronze patinated to an incredible lifelikeness, but just out of scale, magnified to a point of being eerily more than real, perhaps unreal. Another 3-D work, a cast aluminum eagle, finds the national bird taking on an expressionistic but slightly defeated mien. On the perimeter of the South Gallery hang Tasset's new paintings, a spectrum of monochromatic canvases distressed in spots, sometimes to the point of having ragged holes. Perched like a putty eagle somewhere between the elegant and the pathetic, these works are augmented by a new video work, \"My Lear,\" produced by and co-directed with Jennifer Reeder, enjoying its world debut in the North Gallery space, featuring the artist performing a Shakespeare monologue in his studio.
Tony Tasset (b. 1960, Cincinnati, OH) lives and works in Sawyer, Michigan. Major exhibitions of Tasset's work include Front International: Cleveland Triennial For Contemporary Art; 2014 Whitney Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner; Tony Tasset: As It Is, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, curated by Helen Molesworth, ICA, Boston; Life During Wartime, Walker Art Center; and Unnatural Rubber, Andy Warhol Museum. Tasset’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum für Moderne Kunste, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco MOMA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Image: Tony Tasset, Brick Barrow, 2025, bronze with patina, 35 x 55 x 74 inches, edition 2/3 + 1 AP.
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