Celebrating Art, Commerce, Oh And History, At Gavin Brown
November 5, 2008 4:20 pm

“If anyone is going to do a show during the election it’s Jonathan Horowitz,” said Gavin Brown at the art fête-cum-election party last night at his Enterprise gallery, which featured the artist’s latest, titled Obama 08, along with vases of red, white, and blue roses, hundreds of balloons poised for a ceiling drop, and bowls of chili made with the official Obama family recipe. Guests like Cecily Brown, Nate Lowman and girlfriend Mary-Kate Olsen, Gabi Asfour, and Cynthia Rowley came to check out Horowitz’s work while keeping an eye on two flat-screens set back-to-back. (One was playing Fox News and facing a group of red chairs—where Jessica Joffe was sitting, incidentally—and the other was tuned to CNN and in front of the blue seats. Around the entire room were photographs of each president, with Barack Obama’s picture on the floor, ready to hang up at the end of the evening. “You really want to be around a lot of friends because it’s such a historic night,” said Rowley, who brought her daughters to the party and to the polls earlier in the day along with next-door-neighbor Sarah Jessica Parker and her family. “We had both read that funny piece by David Sedaris in The New Yorker about how he went with his mom to vote, so it sort of inspired me. And I can’t even put it into words how important it is that Obama win.” Brown said his urgency was more business-minded. “If he doesn’t win I can’t really sell any of this junk,” he joked.
tags: Ashley Olsen, Gavin Brown, Mary-Kate Olsen
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