Eric Baudelaire, tHE ROse, 2009, Broken neon signage
Elizabeth Dee was incorporated in 2002 as a home for innovative artists working across media. Over the last decade, our program has resulted in over 100 critically acclaimed exhibitions and pioneering productions by contemporary artists responding to the changing landscape of contemporary art, technology and culture.
Elizabeth Dee has produced numerous innovative, first and internationally acclaimed exhibitions by such artists as Adrian Piper, Mark Barrow, Miriam Cahn (debut), Alex Bag, Philippe Decrauzat, Derek Jarman, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn (debut), Jeff Keen (debut), Miranda Lichtenstein, Ryan McNamara (debut), Josephine Meckseper (debut), Ryan Trecartin (debut) and Meredyth Sparks (debut).
The gallery has co-published artists’ monographs with Josephine Meckseper (Sternberg Press), Meredyth Sparks (Monografik Éditions) and Ryan Trecartin (Dee/Rizolli). Production is underway on new publications for 2012 which include a comprehensive monograph on Adrian Piper with essays by Helmut Draxler, Diarmuid Costello, Jörg Heiser, and Adrian Piper (Gregory R. Miller & Co.).
Elizabeth Dee has co-produced ten movies by Ryan Trecartin beginning with the making of his first feature length video in 2007 (I-BE AREA). These co-productions include: Trill-ogy Comp, Sibling Topics (section a), K-CoreaINC.K (section a), P.opular S.ky (section ish), Re’Search Wait’S, Temp Stop, Roamie View and History Enhancements, The Re’Search and Ready. The gallery has served as producer of the international museum tour of Any Ever (The Power Plant, Toronto; MOCA, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, New York; MOCA, North Miami; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris).
Elizabeth Dee is the founder of X-Initiative, an experimental non-profit global collective which took place in 2009-2010 at the former Dia Center for the Arts in New York and is co-editor of the accompanying X-Initiative Yearbook (Mousse Publishing, Milan). She is the co-founder of Independent, a hybrid collective exhibition forum highlighting international galleries and non-profit spaces which takes place annually. Elizabeth is a charter member of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She has written for Art World Salon and October.