The Park

Score by Jason Moran
58 minutes

Bridging fine art and street photography, Ari Marcopoulos’ (b. 1957, Amsterdam) 58-minute film The Park captures the slow flow and punctuated ruptures of contemporary social life at an unfenced basketball court in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. Transforming the sports ground into a stage upon which the spontaneity of our everyday life plays out, it is an anthropological survey of passing moments of intensity, of relationships, kinship and community. The film is accompanied by an improvised score by musician Jason Moran, whose live-recorded performance spontaneously accentuates the visual rhythms of The Park’s unscripted choreography.

Thank you Allyson Spellacy, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Palle Vedel (Manden med Kameraet)

Utilizing oil stick, oil pastel and Flashe paint on burlap stretched over canvas, JJ Manford curates imagined domestic spaces filled with an array of historic artworks, objects, textiles, furniture, and animals. Recent solo shows include “Jaune Brilliant” at Galeria Marta Cervera in Madrid and “Hayden Rowe Street” at Derek Eller Gallery in NYC, which was reviewed by Donald Kuspit in Artforum. His work can be found in public collections at the Brooklyn Museum, the Insititute of Contemporary Art in Miami, and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. He lives and works in Brooklyn, where he is a founding member of Underdonk and Tappeto Volante Projects. 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Fifth Season, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jaune Brilliant, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Hayden Rowe Street, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

2023
The Golden Pheasant At Flamingo
Estate & Other Tales of Wanderlust,
Harper's, East Hampton, NY
In A Western Town, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022
Our House, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA  

2021
Moon Salon, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY View from Gowanus, Harper’s,
East Hampton, NY

2019
Fish Tank TV (Project Room), Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

2018
NIGHT,
One River, Westport, CT

 2017
Greenport Magic, Arts and Leisure, New York, NY
Liminal Grove, One River in Allendale, and Englewood, NJ

2016
Wanderers and Wildflowers, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY  

2013
Of Other Places, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

2012
The Brink of Utterance, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY  

2007
Dissolving Lucian II/ Points of My
Compass, Gershwin Gallery, New York, NY  

2006
Lucian is Dissolving, Willard Straight Art Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2024
Departures and Returns, Anton Kern, WINDOW, New York, NY Cover Band, Asya Geisberg, New York, NY Tone Poem, The Hole, Los Angeles,
CA

2023
Off The Rack, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
RIPE,
Harper's, Los Angeles, CA Levity, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York,
NY Don’t Sweat the Technique, with Michael Berryhill and Matt Kleberg,
KDR305, Miami, FL
LIBRARY,
curated by Glenn Goldberg, TV Projects, Brooklyn, NY
The Power to Dream, curated by James Bolton, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France  

2022
In Residence, Studio Archive Projects, New York, NY Brooklyn Bridge, McBride
Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Manscaping, The Hole, New York,
NY and Los Angeles, CA
Interior Dialogues, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Psychedelic Landscape, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY
What A Long Strange Trip, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
Chasing Phantoms, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, London, UK Drawing
with Scissors, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Prism,
Y2K, New York, NY
Lexicon of Love, Studio Archive Project, Brooklyn, NY
Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy  

2021
A Flower Show, Gangway NPT, Newport, RI
Spiritual Art Advisory, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Melrose,
Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA Oasis, The Pit, Palm Springs, CA Unraveling, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Hello From the Living Room, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Berryhill & JJ Manford, One River, Allendale, NJ

2020
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Quarters, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY 

2019
The Mind is Also a Landscape, Public Land/ Print Club LTD, Sacramento, CA
Under the Time of Lampshades, Transmitter NYC, Brooklyn, NY
The Garden of Earthly Delights, curated by Timothy Bergstrom, Washington Art Association, New York, NY
Mushrooms, Y2K Group, 7 Franklin Place, New York, NY
Decade,
curated by Sun You, SFA Projects, New York, NY
New York, Just Like I Pictured It, Platform, Brooklyn, NY
Making (It) Work, curated by Karla Wozniak and Georgia Elrod, Hubbell Street Galleries,
California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA

2018
In Form: BMCC Art Faculty
Exhibition, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
Big Holiday Show, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY 7 Samurai, Platform Project Space,
Brooklyn, NY Glen Lily Grounds 2018, Newburgh, NY
Idols and Icons, curated by Muskat/Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Summer of Love, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY Gangs of New York,
curated by Essex Flowers, Adds Donna, Chicago, IL DNA Residency Show, Provincetown, MA
Untitled Projects, curated by Catherine Haggarty & Karen Flatow, Crush Curatorial,
Amagansett, NY
True North, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY Foundation Faculty Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Ring of Fire, Far x Wide, for Earth Justice, Brooklyn, NY

2017
Nostalgisms, curated by Nick Benfey, Able Baker Contemporary, Porland, ME
Indian Summer, Disturb the Neighbors, New York, NY
In Paper We Trust, curated by Sara Clarken & Brigette Mulholland, Dot Project,
London, England
The Secret Life of Plants, curated by Jennifer Coates and Nick Lawrence, Freight and Volume, New York, NY Conference Object, curated by Sarah Butler, Cairo, NY  

2016
Cave,curated by Michael Yaniro, Jay, NY Jardin, No. 4 Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Gazing Inland, COOP, Nashville, TN Family Values, curated by Paola Gallio, 195 Christie St., New York, NY
Tread, curated by Alex Sewell, Ess Ef Eff at the Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Your Bad Self, Arts and Leisure, New York, NY

2015
Improvised Showboat #5, curated by Zachary Keeting and Lauren Britton with Ashley Garrett and
Brian Wood, New York, NY
New Work City, curated by Julie Torres, Momenta Art, New York, NY Botanic Revival: JJ Manford and Amy
Lincoln, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ

2014
The Art of Compassion, Freight and Volume, New York, NY
Family Style, curated by Julie Torres, Formerly Pocket Utopia, New York, NY
Through Every Leaf, with Max Razdow, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY  

2013
Typhoon Haiyan Philippines Relief
Benefit, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
C'est Brooklyn-Paper, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Strange Times, Novella Gallery, New York, NY  

2012
Peaces On Earth, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY
Soft Opening, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
Hogwarth Worldwide Biannual, Hogwarth Worldwide Inc, New York, NY
Hunter MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Building, Hunter
MFA Building, New York, NY Brucennial (Bruce High Quality Foundation Biennial),
New York, NY
The Whitney Houston Biennial, Murdertown, Chicago, IL Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Mic: Check (Occupy), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2011
Idiot's Delight, curated by Craig Olson, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Temporary
Antumbra Zone, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Purple Nurple, Beta Space, Brooklyn, NY
Espacio Entre Medio, Chemi's Room, Santurce, Puerto Rico
IT'S ALL GOOD, Apocalypse Now, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Stillness is the Move, Two-Person Show with Elisa Soliven, Saffron Space, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Half Invisible, Beta Space, Brooklyn, NY Painting Comes Alive!, Group
show, Art Jail, New York, NY
12 and Under, Saffron Space, Brooklyn, NY
A Mermaid Day, Mermaid Parade Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
Dance Ghost, Vaudaville Park, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Cadaver Corpse, Space 1026, Philadelphia , PA
Cadaver Corpse, Golden Age, Chicago, IL Fari Shams/JJ Manford Recent Paintings, 76 Harley St., London, England

2008
MFA Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006
The Antiques Show, Tjaden Art Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Yay! Nature!, abandoned storefront, Ithaca, NY

2005
The Bunny Project, Outdoor installation Working Framework, Columbus, OH, and
Ithaca, NY

2004
Overdue, Thesis and pre-thesis Open House, Sibley Arts Library, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
The String Project, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The Rome Show, Palazzo Lazzaroni, Cornell in Rome and Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY

SELECTED PRESS

2024
Donald Kuspit, “JJ Manford, Derek Eller Gallery,”
Artforum, April 2024

2022
Casey Lesser, “10 Sought-After Artists on Artsy in
2022,” Artsy, December 15, 2022 “’20 (What Now?) at PM/AM,” Emergent Magazine, May
2022
Lindsay Preston Zappas, “JJ Manford at Harper’s,” KCRW
Art Insider, March 19, 2022

2021
Neha Jambhekar, “Editors Picks: 14 Events for Your Art
Calendar This Week...,” ArtNet News, November 2, 2021
Johanna Fateman, “JJ Manford,” New Yorker, October 29, 2021 Christopher Alessandrini, “JJ Manford: Moon Salon,”
TheGuide.Art, October 14, 2021 Steven Biller, “Fresh Paint: The Pit gallery makes its Palm Springs debut with ‘Oasis,’” Palm Spring Life, June 18, 2021

2020
Nicholas Cueva, “JJ Manford: Unraveling at Hesse
Flatow,” White Hot Magazine, July 17, 2020
“Art For the In Crowd: 8 Artworks Depicting the Great
Indoors,” Artspace, April 8, 2020
“JJ Manford at Derek Eller Gallery,” Art Viewer, January 1, 2020

2019
Emily Burns, “Interview with JJ Manford,” Make
Magazine, Issue 9, 2019
Liz Ainslie, “JJ Manford’s domestic stages for acid daydreams,” Two Coats of Paint, November 26, 2019 “There’s a Thriving Underground Barter Network Among Artists. Doug Aitken, Dread Scott, and 12 Others Tell Us About Their Most
Memorable Trades,” Artnet News, April 10, 2019

2016
“The 20 Best Booths at Frieze New York,” Artsy, May 5,
2016

2015
Rob Colvin, “A Charming Reverence for Color: Artists
Revisit Paul Klee,” Hyperallergic, October 28, 2015

2014
Pam Grossman, “Max Razdow and JJ Manford show,”
Phantasmaphile, July 16, 2014

2012
Maria Calandra, “JJ Manford: Studio Visit,” Pencil in the Studio, December 2012

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY