{"id":12469,"date":"2025-06-20T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12469"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:19:17","slug":"marnie-weber-and-karon-davis-in-carnival-at-jeffrey-deitch-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/marnie-weber-and-karon-davis-in-carnival-at-jeffrey-deitch-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnie Weber and Karon Davis in ‘Carnival’ at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Carnival\u2019 at Jeffrey Deitch\u2019s<\/a> cavernous SoHo gallery packs in a miniature train, a merry-go-round, a bevy of costumed mannequins and dozens of artworks in a tour de force of surprise, discomfort and optical overload.\u00a0 Featuring works by renowned artists from Red Grooms to Derek Fordjour and others less well-known in New York\u2019s gallery world (including works by late circus magician Johnny Eck who lived an active life without much of his lower body), the show\u2019s inclusive approach mixes in Mardi Gras and burlesque costumes, boldly designed sideshow posters and even a devotional wax figure of Saint Agnes.\u00a0 Amid abundant oddities, Marnie Weber<\/a>\u2019s self-portrait as a clown and behind, Karon Davis<\/a> hugely frowning clown attest to the power of art that like carnival, operates outside social norms.\u00a0 (On view in SoHo through June 28th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

(Foreground) Marnie Weber, Self-Portrait as a Clown, costume on mannequin, foam, wood, resin, acrylic, gold leaf, rope and casters, 84 x 64 x 37 inches, 2007-2020. (Background left) Karon Davis, Sad Clown #1, plaster, metal leaf, glass eyes, chicken wire, steel, acrylic, and MDF wood, 36 x 36 x 16 inches, 2025. (Background right) Kenny Scharf, MOODZZ, acrylic on linen with powder coated aluminum frame, 48 x 60 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Carnival\u2019 at Jeffrey Deitch\u2019s cavernous SoHo gallery packs in a miniature train, a merry-go-round, a bevy of costumed mannequins and dozens of artworks in a tour de force of surprise, discomfort and optical overload.\u00a0 Featuring works by renowned artists from Red Grooms to Derek Fordjour and others less well-known in New York\u2019s gallery world (including … <\/p>\n

Read more “Marnie Weber and Karon Davis in ‘Carnival’ at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1719,9518,10823,9123,2401,9281,11380,11379,2606,3707,7567],"class_list":["post-12469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-clown","tag-deitch","tag-deitch-gallery","tag-derek-fordjour","tag-group-show","tag-karon-davis","tag-kenny-scarf","tag-marnie-weber","tag-red-grooms","tag-soho","tag-tribeca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3f7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}