Summer Camp
AES+F • Alex Anderson • Will Cotton • Scott Csoke • Zackary Drucker • Cielo Félix-Hernández • Emily Furr • Joel Gaitan • Nash Glynn • Clarity Haynes • Narcissister • Jo Nigoghossian • mujero • Juan Arango Palacios • Carlos Rosales-Silva • Alake Shilling • Stanley Stellar • Rachel Youn • Zaldy • Sarah Zapata
Camp is an over-the-top, aesthetic sensibility that transforms morality, solemnity, and good taste into vulgarity, artificiality, and extravagance, animated by a sly sense of humor.
For the inaugural exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters new Tribeca location, we are thrilled to invite you to Summer Camp, an exuberant celebration of Camp aesthetics, curated by Allegra LaViola, Christine Nyce and Sofia Love.
This expansive, intergenerational exhibition turns a side-eye towards the trope of the “summer group show,” eschewing its predictability and self-seriousness, and instead inviting twenty artists to have a good time and capture the frenetic, utopian energy of the summer.
The artists included in Summer Camp all reflect the concept of Camp in their work, whether via the subversion of art-historical tropes, maximalist refutations of good taste, or theatrical aesthetics. They also reflect Susan Sontag’s statement that “Camp taste is a kind of love, a love for human nature.”
Sontag also acknowledges that Camp can be a verb, i.e. “to Camp.” So, it is not incorrect to say that Sargent’s Daughters is “going Camping.” Invite your friends.