SEDUCTION:  THE ALLURE OF FLOWERS...

Exhibition:  June 24 - July 24, 2011 

The Seducers series originates from E.V.'s three month exploration during the summer of 2010 as an artist in residence at Claude Monet's estate in Giverny.  There she would follow the gardeners on their daily purning rounds, collecting blooms they'd clipped at the flowers' vilual peak.  The most arresting of these specimens were then pressed in a microwave, scanned digitally, and printed on photo paper at 18 times their original size.  the electric, vibrant colorws of the flowers in the images are accurate but each image is manipulated by taking exactly half the image, and mirroring it, thereby forcing a perfect symmetry upon the natural geometry of each flower.

E.V. Day writes "In each of the Seducers, whether a peony, a water lily, or a clematis, I wanted to give the viewer the perspective of an insect hovering in front of it.  And in making it symmetrically perfect - akin to Hermann Rorschach's ink-blotter tests - I wanted to enhance the almost kaleidoscopic sense of motion I found at the flower's center.  Stand before these images and watcch what appears:  faces and masks; mammals and ensects; religious iconography; altars, angels, Shivas, chalices, mandalas; patterns and forms that suggest baroque and art nouveau.  The elegance of the flowers shen flattened and scaled up becomes awesome, fleshy and even monstrous.  I think of each of the Seducers as a portal into the startling intelligence found in a mindless organism."

 2011 “Seduction: The Allure of Flowers”  Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, Colorado
 
 2010 Deitch Projects; New York, New York

 2010 Bride Fight, Cincinnati Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Ohio

2009 E.V. Day-New York City Opera; one-year installation in the Promenade of the
Philip Johnson-designed New York State Theater (Koch Theater)

2009 Otero/Plassart Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2009 Dieu Donne Paper Mill; New York, New York
 

 2009  Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo)
 
 2009  "Intergalactic Installations", Deitch Projects, Design District-Buena Vista Building, Miami/Basel, Dec 6-10th (solo)
 
 2008  "I Won't Grow Up", curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler, Cheim and Read
 
 2008  "Good Doll Bad Doll", Curated by Michael Duncan, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
 
 2008  "Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony", Peabody Essex Museum, Essex, MA
 
 2008  "Blown Away", Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
 
 2007  "Multiple Interpretations", The New York Public Library, New York
 
 2007  "Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III", Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
 
 2007  "What's Your Hobby", The Fire Place Project, East Hampton, New York
 
 2007  "Crash, Pause, Rewind"; Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
 
 2006  "The Female Machine", Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
 2006  "Sweet Heat", site specific sound installation in the Boiler Room, Oct-January, PS1, New York (solo)
 
 2006  "Bride Fight", May-August, Lever House, 390 Park Ave, New York, Deitch Projects (solo)
 
 2006  "E.V. Day; Intergalactic Installations", April-June, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California (solo)
 
 2005  "E.V. Day", G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
 
 2005  "Crash, Pause, Rewind"; Western Bridge; Seattle, WA
 
 2005  Art Basel/Miami; Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, NY
 
 2005  "Marilyn"; Sean Kelly Gallery; New York, NY
 
 2004  Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art
 
 2004  Marliyn, Sean Kelly Gallery new York
 
 2004  Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art
 
 2004  Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
 
 2003  Galaxy, Henry Urbach Architecture
 
 2003  Doublures, Musée National des Beaux-Arts quebec
 
 2003  Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion 1970-2002, Barbican Centre London
 
 2003  G-Force (Forum), Bellevue Art Museum washington
 
 2002  Mood River, Wexner Center for the Arts columbus
 
 2001  "Ghost," Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan
 
 2001  Armory Show 2001, with Henry Urbach Architecture
 
 2001  Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, new York
 
 2001  "G-Force," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
 
 2000  "Transporter," Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
 
 2000  Artforum Berlin, with Hans Meyer
 
 2000  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art
 
 2000  "Greater New York," P.S. 1, Queens
 
 2000  "Anywhere But Here," Artists Space
 
 1999  "At the Curve of the World," Track 16, Santa Monica
 
 1999  "Luster," Henry Urbach Architecture
 
 1997  "Twister," Real Art Ways, Hartford
 
 1997  "Endorphin Ladies," Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
 
 1997  "Perfect Day," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, curated by Michael Phelan
 
 1997  Group Drawing Show, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
 
 1996  25th Anniversary Exhibition, John Weber Gallery, New York "Material Matters," A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe
 
 1996  "Weather Channels," Art Initiatives Gallery, NYC
 
 1996  "Instant Visions," New York Women's Foundation, NYC
 
 1996  "A Few Bright Moments," Void, NYC
 
 1995  M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of New Haven
 
 1995  "Raw Space," Real Art Ways, Hartford
 
 
Literature
 
 2003  Galaxy reviewed in Tema Celeste, Freize, Sculpture, The Art Newspaper, The New Yorker, The Village Voice
 
 2003  Flash Art (Summer), “Three Variations on Sculpture” by Shamim M. Momin
 
 2003  V Magazine (Jan-Feb)
 
 2003  Dangerous Beauty, exhibition catalogue, by Manon Slome
 
 2002  G-Force reviewed in New York Times, Time Out, Women’s Wear Daily
 
 2002  ArtNet.com, Tema Celeste, Frieze and Flash Art
 
 2002  ArtNews (June; cover) “The Mod Bod” by Hilarie Sheets
 
 2001  Art On Paper (September-October 2001) "E.V. Day: Cellular Communication"
 
 2001  ArtNews, June 2001 (cover)
 
 2001  Italian Vogue (April 2001) "Fragments," by Roberto Franceschetti
 
 2001  Intervista (Winter 2001) "E.V Day," by Craig Garrett
 
 2000  Connaissance des Arts (November 2000) "E.V Day," by Alanna Heiss
 
 2000  Sculpture (June 2000),"E.V. Day: Telling Objects," by Charlene Roth
 
 2000  Transporter, reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out, Village Voice, New Yorker, Flash Art, Art in America and ArtNews
 
 2000  Art on Paper (May-June 2000) "E.V. Day"
 
 2000  Surface (April 2000) "Day-Blow," interview with Stephen Sprouse