A Rita Ackermann and Harmony Korine, Original piece, untitled, 2009.

Spray-paint, paper cement with pigment on photopaper.

size 35x47 inches

Rita Ackermann will be the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in spring 2012. This Hungarian-born New York artist burst on the scene in 1994 with her first solo exhibition at Andrea Rosen gallery New York and has been featured around the world including the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Known for her intensely personal expressionistic and surreal paintings and collages, Ackermann collaborated recently on a series of paintings and collages with Nashville-based filmmaker Harmony Korine. Together they have produced jarring figures that suggest fragments of narratives. These exciting new works were recently featured at the Swiss Institute in New York. Critic Roberta Smith pronounced in her New York Times Review of the exhibition that Ackermann was “due for a survey” exhibition. The MOCA exhibition will be accompanied by a monograph published by Rizzoli with an essay by MOCA director and chief curator Bonnie Clearwater, among others.

Harmony Korine is an American filmmaker best known for writing Larry Clark’s film "Kids" and for directing "Mr. Lonely" about a Michael-Jackson impersonator in Paris. His latest film "Trash Humpers", previewed at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009, where it won the main award.