Jaime Davidovich:
Video Works 1970 - 2000

The Phatory LLC Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a retrospective exhibition of work by pioneering video artist Jaime Davidovich. The exhibition opens March 18 and runs through April 18, with an artist’s reception on March 18, from 7-9:00 P.M.

Jaime Davidovich has always played ingeniously with frames and borders – between cultures and countries, between spaces of experience and art, and between distinct media – and his commitment to this experimentation continues in his recent work.

This exhibit will address the context of presentation from the still to moving image: from prints on jewel cases of the artist’s DVDs; to the his new video paintings; to an assortment of video clips (chosen by viewers) projected on the gallery’s back wall of Jaime Davidovich: Video Works, 1970 – 2000.

Jaime Davidovich’s career began in Buenos Aries in the late 1950s. He participated in the Informalism movement of the Argentinean avant-garde. After moving to New York in 1963, his work shifted first to installations that intervened in both gallery and urban spaces, and then to videotape. He was one of the first artists to apply the artistic strategies of the post-minimalist and conceptualist eras to the new time based medium. From 1977 to 1983, he broadcast artist’s videos through SoHo Television. Guest artists included John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci, and Les Levine.

Jaime Davidovich’s work has been exhibited widely in both the United States and Latin America. He has been awarded three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts.

This exhibition is held in conjunction with the publication by We Press in Buenos Aries of Jaime Davidovich: Video Works, 1970 - 2000.