DISTURBING INNOCENCE

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Disturbing Innocence, a group exhibition curated by artist Eric Fischl, on view on FLAG’s 9th floor from October 25, 2014 – January 31, 2015.

Disturbing Innocence features 58 historical and contemporary artists whose use of dolls, toys, mannequins, robots, and other surrogates forms a deep and powerfully expressive genre. The exhibition poses profound questions surrounding social constructs of youth, beauty, transformation, violence, sexuality, gender, identity, and loneliness. Inspired by Fischl’s own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980’s, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Selected Artists Include: Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, James Casebere, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gregory Crewdson, James Croak, Henry Darger, E.V. Day, Peter Drake, Carroll Dunham, Inka Essenhigh, Eric Fischl, Alberto Giacometti, Steve Gianakos, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Charles LeDray, David Levinthal, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Jim Nutt, Tony Oursler, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, John Waters, John Wesley, Lucy Winton, Lisa Yuskavage, among others.

Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalogue with an original text by James Frey, ‘A Real Doll’ by A.M. Homes, and a conversation featuring Eric Fischl, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons, moderated by FLAG Founder Glenn Fuhrman.