4 November – 18 December, 2011

Opening reception: Friday, 4 November, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm

Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present ACTIVE SURPLUS, an exhibition of new work by DANIEL LEFCOURT.

Recently, I was on a tour of a construction site at a prominent institution. The institution was in the final phase of renovating its galleries. While a few areas were complete, others remained in progress. The rooms were filled with both construction crews and museum staff. Various types of activities were taking place simultaneously – constructing, modeling, cleaning, arranging, preserving, etc. Many of the objects could not yet safely be brought in from storage – the staff was planning the exhibition with mock-ups of both the objects and their display mechanisms. As an outside observer it was difficult to tell what was what. The status of all the objects were in flux. Our tour guide lamented that the modeling, planning, and construction might continue forever.

Daniel Lefcourt has had solo exhibitions at Sutton Lane Gallery (renamed Campoli Presti) in London and Paris, Gallery Luis Campaña in Berlin, Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz in Zurich, Groeflin Maag in Basel, and at his primary gallery, Taxter & Spengemann in New York. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at galleries and institutions including MoMA P.S.1, the Sculpture Center, Malmo KonstMuseum and Kunst Werke Berlin. He received his MFA from Columbia University, and is a faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This exhibition was made possible in part by a grant from The Foundation For Contemporary Arts.