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Jennifer Dalton (2009)

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Jennifer Dalton

Jennifer Dalton, "The New Yorker," May 11, 2009

JENNIFER DALTON

How do we value art—or all the objects in our lives, for that matter? Dalton tackles the question with an installation in which everything she owns is up for sale. Using skills honed in a day job at Christie’s auction house, she has photographed and catalogued everything from household appliances to gifts from Mom to art works made by friends like Anthony Goicolea, Karen Heagle, and Kirsten Hassenfeld. (Dalton will use the proceeds from these sales to buy more works by the same artists.) The project’s absurd, satirical bent is even evident on the price list: a humble American flag, which Dalton found taped to a bush outside her home, goes for three thousand dollars. Through May 9. (Winkleman, 637 W. 27th St. 212-643-3152.)

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