john glassie :: press release

Photographs + a Book on view at jen bekman
May 11 - June 11, 2005

NEW YORK, NY - Bicycles Locked to Poles, an exhibition of color photographs by John Glassie – coinciding with the publication of a book of photographs of the same name – opens at jen bekman, 6 Spring Street New York, NY on Wednesday May 11, 2005 and remains on view through June, 2005. A reception for the artist will be held on the evening of Tuesday May 10, 2005 : 6pm to 8pm at jen bekman. The artist will also sign books at the gallery on Saturday May 14 and Saturday June 11, 2005. Visit the gallery's web site for more information about those events.

The exhibition includes 15 photographs that also appear in Bicycles Locked to Poles, a soft-bound collection of Glassie's images to be published by McSweeney's in June. Advance copies of the book will be available at jen bekman at the opening reception and throughout the length of the show.

Glassie made these bicycle photographs between 2001 and 2004, in and around his East Village neighborhood in New York. Glassie's subjects, lone bicycles in all manner of captive state, are photographed with a mix of wry sympathy and inventory-taking. Frequently bent, broken and made otherwise dysfunctional, the bikes in their altered forms take on graphical as well as anthropomorphic life.

"Bent into insect shapes yet retaining a certain dignity," says a ReadyMade Magazine review of the book, "the martyred frames collected here are at once a nod to Marcel Duchamp's deconstructed Bicycle Wheel and a testament to the risks of city living."

ABOUT THE ARTIST

This is Glassie's New York gallery debut and his first solo exhibition. Glassie works primarily as a writer and his published work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Wired and The Ganzfeld. As a young man, Glassie occasionally showed paintings and assemblage pieces in group exhibitions at galleries in Washington, D.C. His photographs have more recently been seen on the late Surgery of Modern Warfare website.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Bicycles Locked to Poles, the book (McSweeney's, $14.00 U.S., $21.00 Canada), features 90 color photographs, a graphical guide to present, damaged and missing bicycle parts, and a quote from Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind.

>> download a .pdf of the press release for the book (from McSweeney's)


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			John Glassie : Bicycles Locked to Poles Photographs + a Book on view at jen bekman May 11 - June 11, 2005 NEW YORK, NY - Bicycles Locked to Poles, an exhibition of color photographs by John Glassie – coinciding with the publication of a book of photographs of the same name – opens at jen bekman, 6 Spring Street New York, NY on Wednesday May 11, 2005 and remains on view through June, 2005. A reception for the artist will be held on the evening of Tuesday May 10, 2005 : 6pm to 8pm at jen bekman. The artist will also sign books at the gallery on Saturday May 14 and Saturday June 11, 2005. Visit the gallery's web site for more information about those events. The exhibition includes 15 photographs that also appear in Bicycles Locked to Poles, a soft-bound collection of Glassie's images to be published by McSweeney's in June. Advance copies of the book will be available at jen bekman at the opening reception and throughout the length of the show. Glassie made these bicycle photographs between 2001 and 2004, in and around his East Village neighborhood in New York. Glassie's subjects, lone bicycles in all manner of captive state, are photographed with a mix of wry sympathy and inventory-taking. Frequently bent, broken and made otherwise dysfunctional, the bikes in their altered forms take on graphical as well as anthropomorphic life. "Bent into insect shapes yet retaining a certain dignity," says a ReadyMade Magazine review of the book, "the martyred frames collected here are at once a nod to Marcel Duchamp's deconstructed Bicycle Wheel and a testament to the risks of city living." ABOUT THE ARTIST This is Glassie's New York gallery debut and his first solo exhibition. Glassie works primarily as a writer and his published work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Wired and The Ganzfeld. As a young man, Glassie occasionally showed paintings and assemblage pieces in group exhibitions at galleries in Washington, D.C. His photographs have more recently been seen on the late Surgery of Modern Warfare website. ABOUT THE BOOK Bicycles Locked to Poles, the book (McSweeney's, $14.00 U.S., $21.00 Canada), features 90 color photographs, a graphical guide to present, damaged and missing bicycle parts, and a quote from Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind. >> download a .pdf of the press release for the book (from McSweeney's)