Overduin & Co. is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Erika Vogt. The scope of Vogt’s work encompasses video, sculpture, drawing, and performance. For this exhibition Vogt will present a group of new videos as well as an installation of newspaper drawings. Vogt's videos are constructed using layers of both original and found images and objects. The two channel video titled “Book XII” cycles through images of an analogue wall clock and a digital alarm clock, intercut with vignettes of the artist reading the newspaper. Vogt’s interest in calendric structures is present throughout the work. Each video shifts through collections of still images, recorded actions, and fields of objects, while the plane of reference remains in flux. Segments of video show the artist holding various transparent acrylic forms overlayed with images of charts and graphs. Other clips reveal anthropological forms rotating in the artist’s hands to reveal faint patterns imprinted in the objects’ surfaces. The newspapers that form the drawings first functioned as background materials for the video; tactile surfaces and fields of signs. Their outer surfaces are now sealed in paint and affixed with groups of transparent acrylic forms. A starburst-like shape adorns one grid of newspapers, while the repeated silhouette of a lemon sits atop the second set of papers. The starburst forms come from historic celestial maps and the lemon is a reference to Hollis Frampton’s 1969 film, Lemon. The layering in both the videos and the drawings tunes the attention beyond the foreground and levels all planes. “To the degree that the ubiquitous digital camera and its readily reproducible pictures have been transmitted, virus-like, into the consumer mainstream, artists have been undoing the conventional limits of digital image-making with equal urgency and efficacy. Erika Vogt is among the most skilled of these artists. In Vogt's videos, the picture plane is mirrored, inverted, negated and rejected altogether; 'subject' exists almost incidentally, and portraiture is staged by disallowing the self. Catherine Taft, Art Review Erika Vogt (b. 1973, East Newark, NJ) is a New York based sculptor, printmaker, and video artist. Vogt received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Vogt’s sculptures have taken the form of large-scale installations and collaborative theatrical performances. Vogt’s background in both feminist and queer video and her involvement in experimental film in Los Angeles continue to inform her work. Solo exhibitions have been organized by the New Museum in New York, Triangle France in Marseilles, and the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire. Vogt's work has been included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Anthology Film Archives in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Vogt’s work is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fondation Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Theatrical commissions of Vogt’s Artist Theater Program have been hosted by the ICA in Miami, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Performa in New York. Vogt is currently completing a Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University in New York. For more information and images, please contact the gallery at office@overduinandco.com. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm or by appointment.