Lush Life is a multi-part show that takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94 Freemans, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery.
Lush Life adopts its title from Richard Price’s eponymous 2008 novel. The novel is set in the contemporary LES, where a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood; which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and Price’s novel provides a potent vehicle for the consideration of community as voices compete for, ignore and occasionally share the same physical and conceptual space.
The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. There will be a collective opening of all participating galleries on Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 pm.