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1990 Jaime Davidovich - Context Transcultural Video-Instalaciones, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina Ideas and Images for Argentina, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Video Arte Internacional, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Asociacion Argentina de Criticos de Arte, Instituto de Cooperacion Ibero Americana, Buenos Aires, Argentina Image World: Metamedia, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Decade Show - Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 1989-90 The Live! Show Retrospective, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York 1989 Image World - Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Persuasive Symbiosis - Ten Argentine - New York Artists, La Agencia, New York 1988 Jaime Davidovich, Diane Brown Gallery, New York Crossing Over: Video, Criticism, Theory, The Corroboree + Multimedia Studios, School of Art and Art History; The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 1988 National Latino Film and Video Festival, San Antonio, Texas 1986 Television's Impact on Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum, New York Artists Television Project, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Transcultural/Transmedia, Exit Art, New York Computer Culture Days Linz, ORF - Videonale/New Images for a New Age, ARS Electronica, Austria 1985 Artists Talk Back to the Media, Holland Utah Arts Festival 1985, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Famous for 30 Seconds - Artists in the Media, Artists Space, New York 1984 Cleveland Revisited, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio TV on TV, Texas Tech University, Texas Global Village 10th Annual Documentary Festival, New York So There, Orwell - 1984 - A Video Review, The Louisiana World Exposition Video: A Retrospective, Long Beach Museum of Art, California World Wide Video Festival '84, Kijkhuis, Nederland From TV to Video, I'immagine elettronica, Bologna, Italy 1 Bienal de la Habana, Pabellon Cuba Museo Nacional, La Habana, Cuba Salso Film & TV Festival, Assessorato alla Cultua del Comune di Parma, Parma, Italy 1983 Video/Jaime Davidovich, Hallways, Buffalo, New York Television!, Group Installation at the Windows at 62 White Street, New York Watching Television - A Video Event, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Wake Up, Artists in Residence Series of the Chicago Editing Center 17 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil TV USA 1983, Institute of American Studies, Barcelona, Spain 1982 The Artist and Television, The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, UCLA College of Fine Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, NYU College of Arts, New York THE LIVE! SHOW, MCTV, New York Chicago Editing Center, Chicago Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Ohio University College of Fine Arts Videodagen, Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland Video and Television Festival, Maastrich, Holland Festival de Video, Center for Media Art, American Center, Paris, France Kijkschrift een Uitgave Van Het Kijkhuis, Kijkhuis World Wide Video Festival, Nederland New Images/New Languages, Toulouse, France 1981 Video/Behavior/Art, Institut D'Estudis Nord-Americans, Barcelona, Spain Long Beach Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Video, University Art Museum, Berkley, California Alternatives in Retrospect, The New Museum, New York Each canvas is an abstracted landscape in which the painted layer provides a counterpoint tot he electronic image—the brushstroke is handmade and textural. The videos run unedited and in actual time. They have been made as a direct experience of nature and are viewed as flickering images in the dark. These landscape paintings, a part of a larger series dealing with traditional subject matter, including still-life and the figure, are being shown for the first time in the Lehman exhibition. Davidovich's installation is as distant from the wrap-around sound and screens of contemporary video installations as they are from the vast panoramic spectacles of some Hudson River painters. And, while unlike the transcendentalism of the Hudson River's earlier painters who saw deity in nature, Davidovich's video paintings do have a spiritual quality. These landscapes are imprinted with the presence of the things man-made, yet they are contemplative. They exist in a human scale. The installation is meant for close viewing, to be seen in an intimate space. From 1978-1985 Davidovich was involved in "alternative television" in New York City and with the early explorations of electronic media for creating art—these media ranged from cable television to satellite transmission. In the 1980's, as founding member of Cable Soho, producer of "Soho Television," and president of the Artists Television Network, Davidovich explored video within the context of the new possibilities of public cable access. Playing off the conceits of commercial television, Davidovich's show, "The Live Show" on Manhattan Cable TV explored this territory with both insight and humor. Davidovich's video work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Museo del Barrio, the Kitchen, and the Whitney Museum in New York; the Everson Museum, Syracuse; Hallwalls, Buffalo; the Louisiana Museum, Denmark; the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina. —Susan Hoeltzel Director education 1963 School of Visual Arts, New York 1959-61 University of Uruguay 1954-58 National College, Buenos Aires, Argentina selected exhibitions 1998 Zocalo1975-1998, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997 Legacy/Legado, The Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut 1995 The Promised Land, Installation, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina El Museo del Barrio Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition - Part III - Reaffirming Spirituality, El Museo del Barrio, New York 1994 Lo Falso, Lo Virtual, Lo Real, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina Scars, Pleasure + Sacrifice, Argentina, Colombia Video Creation, Colombian Center and Consulate General of Argentina, New York Ver Y Estimar, Museo Nacional de Cellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Recordando el Futuro, Colombian Mission, New York 1993 Buenos Aires Video, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina 1992 Los Pueblos Quieren Saber de que se Trata, Video Installation, Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina Americas, Monasterio de Santa Clara, Moguer (Huelva) Uncommon Ground, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New York Democracy in Communication," International Media Resource Exchange 1991 Forces/Farces, Exit Art, New York