Postmasters will show “Virgins” artist Hennessey Youngman before Family Business debut
3/22/2012
The art world’s favorite YouTube critic Hennessy Youngman has been poised to make his debut at Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan’s pop-up gallery Family Business — in its series of Marilyn Minter-curated “Virgins” exhibitions, which provide the first New York shows for young artists — but craddle-robbing gallery Postmasters will get to show works by the man behind Hen-Rock, Jayson Musson, first.
Though Musson, a figurative painter, has never shown in a New York gallery, his alter ego Youngman recently launched an open call for artists to fill the tiny Family Business storefront on 21st Street.
Brooklyn-based Musson will get his New York debut in the three-person show “Through a glass, darkly,” for which Postmasters founder-directors Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich, and director Paulina Bebecka each selected one non-gallery artist whose work deals with themes of racial otherness. Bebecka tapped Musson, who will show a Hennessy Youngman video, and a selection of his “BLM” (black like me) posters.
“Through a glass, darkly,” which features works by Musson, Oasa DuVerney, and Julia Kul, opens March 31 at Postmasters; the Hennessy Youngman-curated free-for-all opens at Family Business on April 3.
credit: Blouin Artinfo
