Chaperone with Alex Bag

Grandma’s Boy, Copyright 20th Century Fox, 2006

THURSDAY, June 18, 7pm

Grandma’s Boy

(2006, Nicholaus Goossen)

EFA Project Space presents Chaperone, an eight-week summer event. This weekly series consists of films handpicked by a group of artists, all whose work provocatively explores disparate aspects of our culture’s love affair with mediated reality.

EFA Project Space welcomes the artist Alex Bag, as she chaperones the movie, Grandma’s Boy (2006).

Alex (Allen Covert), a 35 year old video game tester has to find a new place to live when his roommate (Jonathan Loughran) spends the rent money on Filipino hookers. After an “encounter” with his friend’s (Nick Swardson) mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother and her two roommates (Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight). In an attempt to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that he is living “with three hot babes.”

Courtesy the artist, Alex Bag, and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

Alex Bag’s work combines performance, video, acting, drawing, and installation with distinct humor and an acerbic wit to explore the particular ills and alienations endemic to late capitalist society. Drawing inspiration from mass media sources—particularly television—she simultaneously lambastes and embraces the culture her work reflects and informs. She was born in New York, where she currently resides and works, and received her BFA from Cooper Union in 1991. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; Locust Projects, Miami; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; American Fine Arts, New York; and Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan. She has been featured in such recent exhibitions as Playback, ARC / Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fit to Print and Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York; Panorámica, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and the Baltic Triennale, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. A monograph on her work is forthcoming. She is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York.

EFA Project Space is located at 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor.

The Chaperone program has been organized by Ian Cooper and Michelle Levy.

For more information on the event, contact projectspace@efanyc.org, or 212-563-5855 x 151

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