“Mantucket” by Justin H. Long in the Project Room. On view will be a new series of paintings constructed from stretched Brooks Brothers shirts and a new video work that semi-satirically analyzes the artist’s relationship to yacht culture.
Justin H. Long hyperbolizes aspects of his actual sailing practice to create a narrative outside of himself, causing his artistic practice to become performative. He positions himself as an artist as well as a tastemaker within the “prep” lifestyle. In recent works, Long presented items of his collection of sailing paraphernalia in the manner of history museums. A single sailing competition blazer was presented under a vitrine next to a worn-down cap. Illustrating the thesis of Mantucket.
Long considers “the Pomp vs. Prep, Yale vs. Princeton, heritage vs. inheritance, gingham vs. tattersall, bespoke dress, ivy league liberal arts educated, fluent in languages and well travelled, balancing the King’s game with the King’s disease, seersucker and madras, is a Tom Collins with gin or vodka, and how to tie a proper knot on a pair of top siders.”
For Mantucket, Long will present small-scaled paintings in the form of stretched Brooks Brothers shirts that result as minimal altered ready-mades that highlight the brand’s cool color palettes and patterns. The pieces have a moiré quality, embellished with the artist’s stitched monogram, reappropriating the aesthetic as his own. In addition, Long will project Bouge Cruise, a new video piece that adds further narrative to the project by investigating and embracing a bourgeoisie tradition specific to yacht culture.
Dorsch Gallery’s program reflects the intersection of tastes and interests in the partnership of gallery founder Brook Dorsch and director Tyler Emerson-Dorsch. Together they represent emerging, mid-career and established artists and seek to present powerful and insightful exhibitions. Mr. Dorsch and Ms. Emerson-Dorsch seek to instigate a greater understanding and appreciation of what the arts can do, instilling in Miamians, by example, the importance of art patronage. With more than 3600 square feet of exhibition space, the gallery presents an ambitious program including solo presentations by gallery and visiting artists, lectures, and shows by visiting curators.
Widely acknowledged as a pioneer of Miami’s art district Wynwood, Brook Dorsch was the first to move a commercial gallery to the then run-down warehouse district in 2000. His contributions span from organizing over 300 exhibitions, including those of large-scale sculpture and installations, to hosting important concerts and performances. He was co-founder of Sites Miami, an exhibition of outdoor sculpture at Lummus Park, Miami. He has been a board member of Tigertail Productions, and he was one of the founding members of the Wynwood Arts District. He is currently on the board of iSAW (Interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop).
Tyler Emerson-Dorsch joined the gallery in late 2008, after earning an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Ms. Emerson-Dorsch curated Classroom, a program of lectures and events in a flex space at Dorsch Gallery in 2008; nota bene, a group show at Dorsch Gallery in 2009; John Sanchez’s MFA show at the Frost Museum at FIU; and The Importance of Daydreams, a group show in 2009 at World Class Boxing, the project space for Dennis and Debra Scholl’s collection. She collaborated with Mr. Dorsch in putting together a thirty-year survey of Robert Thiele’s work at Dorsch Gallery in 2009.
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