Fred Torres Collaborations is proud to present Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore curated by Elana Rubinfeld and Sarah Murkett

Humor in all of its forms, including social satire, wordplay, games and jokes, has been an underlying theme in art, throughout the 20th century. Dada's playfulness is the precursor of this thread, born as a response to the destruction wreaked on a global scale during WWI. KNOCK KNOCK explores how artists have drawn on this strategy, using humor as a hook to tackle more complex social, sexual, and political issues. The resulting historical exhibition, mounted over two venues, is superficially all farce, gaffs, puns and parody, and exposes the embedded tensions inherent in the work when the laughter dies down.

Two Locations:

Armand Bartos Fine Art
25 East 73rd Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10028
February 24 – April 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 24th

Featured Artists:

Marc Dennis
Charles Dreyfus
Marcel Duchamp
Armen Eloyan
Philip Guston
George Hugnet
Nina Katchadourian
Jiri Kolar
Sarah Lucas
Rene Margritte
Larry Miller
Rachel Owens
Shannon Plumb
Man Ray
Martha Rosler
Ben Vautier
Robert Watts

Fred Torres Collaborations
527 West 29th Street, New York, NY 10001
February 24 – April 24, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4th

Featured Artists:

Olaf Breuning
Justin Cooper
R. Crumb
Kate Gilmore
David Humphrey
David Kramer
David LaChapelle
Lee Materazzi
Trong Nguyen
William Pope L.
Kristofer Porter
Richard Prince
Jon Pylypchuk
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Delphine Reist
Guy Richards Smit