Ann Agee
"I’ve been thinking a lot this summer about replication. What is lost in the process of trying to emulate oneself? What is gained?
For my Five Favorites, I have chosen artworks that are not only visually stunning, but also speak to this act of self-imposed doubling, which can be implemented to reinforce an idea or obscure it in equal measure.
Especially for artists working with analog techniques, there’s something so alluring in the challenging attempt to mimic one’s own previous actions, which inevitably fall short of total imitation, but produce something beautifully new in the process."
Isaac Alpert is the Director of Estates at P·P·O·W, where he handles estate management and legacy preservation for artists instrumental to the downtown art scene in New York in the late-twentieth century, most notably Jimmy DeSana, Hunter Reynolds, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong.
