My Barbarian

Born:
1975
Residence:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT Los Angeles
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  • The exhibition “The Audience is Always Right,” by My Barbarian at New Museum, New York will end on January 8, 2017.

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  • Working at the intersection of theater, visual arts, and critical practice, the collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Sega

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  • To inaugurate its new Paris gallery, Gagosian is presenting “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly, which have an allusive and elusive relationship with the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

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  • Art + music = party Museums are no longer just places to view paintings and sculpture; they're places to hang out and have "socially sophisticated

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  • Art + music = party Museums are no longer just places to view paintings and sculpture; they're places to hang out and have "socially sophisticated

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  • The Whitney Biennial curators have chosen the 103 participants for this years exhibition. The show is the United States most important survey of emerging American art. The 2014 edition will take place March 7–May 25, 2014. It will be the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in the spring of 2015. This is the 77th in the Museum’s ongoing series of Annuals and Biennials begun in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

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  • This year had more than its share of so-so exhibitions, but it brought an exciting burst of populism. I'm still convinced that art doesn't have to be

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  • No longer Chelsea’s seedy little sister, Manhattan’s Lower East Side art scene is moving on up.

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  • Apparent ease and graceful agility mark the work of master weaver and textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard.

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BIOGRAPHY
My Barbarian is an LA-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade.  The trio creates and performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations and video installations that explore contemporary political challenges by playing out allegorical narratives drawn from history and mythology.  My Barbarian has shown work at venues including LACMA, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, MOCA, LAXART, Schindler House, LACE, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum, New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Participant, Inc., Joe's Pub, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; The Power Plant, Toronto; De Appel, Amsterdam; Peres Projects, Berlin; Torpedo, Oslo; El Matadero, Madrid; CCA, Tel Aviv; and Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy. My Barbarian was included in the 2005 and 2007 Performa Biennials, the 2006 California Biennial and the 2007 Montreal Biennial.

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