The Gold Standard December 21, 2006

All of the works in the exhibition are gold in color, and deal with the iconographic complexity of gold. The exhibition examines the idea that otherwise uninflected objects, through material and surface transformation, become objects of desire, expanding upon and negotiating the chimerical presence -- both materially and symbolically -- of gold. Themes such as alchemy and religion, symbols of power and wealth, the ostentatious and the sublime, are also of chief concern. The exhibition includes historical figures alongside younger artists, and numerous works commissioned especially for 'The Gold Standard.'