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Mitchell Algus Gallery  
511 25 Street, Second Floor
New York 10001
tel: 212.242.6242

Roy Comer/Jaime Davidovich
(plus a collaborative piece with Gordon Matta-Clark)

ULTRAVIDEOFORM
Painting/Television/Documentation: 1969 - 1976
January 3 - January 31, 2004


The Mitchell Algus Gallery presents an exhibition of painting, television and documentation by Roy Colmer and Jaime Davidovich opening on Saturday January 3 and continuing through Saturday January 31, 2004.

Included in this exhibition are paintings and films by Roy Colmer and a photodocumentation, collage and video by Jaime Davidovich. Also being shown are photocollages and a video piece made collaboratively by Jaime Davidovich and Gordon Matta-Clark in 1974. The show captures a historical moments the experimental excursions between diverse media were being actively pursued and boundaries blurred. 

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Jaime Davidovich is an Argentinian artist who first gained attention in New York in the late 1960s with subtle installation pieces made using adhesive tape and the gallery space. These were worked out and later documented in photographic collages. Davidovich showed at the Bykert Gallery and in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. In the early 1070s Davidovich began to experiment with video and was included in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition of the new medium. Open Circuity, in 1974. Davidovich regularly showed video pieces in SoHo's non-commercial spaces, particularly at The Kitchen and the 3 Mercer Street Store. The artist also exhibited at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, one of the first institutions in American to show video as art. Jaime Davidovich continues to live and work in New York.