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Kim Gordon teams up with Brooklyn’s Amant for new art exhibition ‘Count Your Chickens’

Story by Anagricel Duran 

Last Night (March 19), Kim Gordon attended the opening of her new art exhibition, Count Your Chickens, in New York City. Check out photos from the night below. 

The legendary artist and musician’s newest exhibit is up for view in Brooklyn’s Amant – a nonprofit institution that fosters artistic research, experimentation and dialogue through live programs, publications and artist residencies – and surveys her work from 2007 to the present day in the form of drawings, ceramics, paintings, and selected readymades. 

The exhibit has displayed pieces from her fabric painting series Early Suburbs (2023/2024) and Track Development Community (2021) – which depict the names of Los Angeles neighbourhoods, shaped by development and successive waves of gentrification, are boldly hand-painted to echo protest banners, situating the viewer within a field of displacement and resistance – as well as her 2022 series Proposal for a painting which consists of inkjet prints with digital marks depicting the interiors of hotel rooms the artist has occupied for days or weeks at a time. 

 

 

The focal piece of the exhibit is Jeanetta and Alex (2026), a short film commissioned by Amant in which poet Jeanetta Rich and artist Alex Hubbard come together through the mediated presence of the guitar as an instrument of choreographed seduction. 

Speaking about the film during a press walkthrough, Gordon shared, “This was kind of inspired by the idea of ‘what is a guitar?’ or ‘What is electricity?’ We think of electricity as something far away from being human. Electricity affects so many things, so I am trying to use a guitar to describe electricity in sexual terms. 

“The guitar is such a phallic thing,” she continued, “but the film was inspired by revisiting DH Lawrence books, where the characters talk about how they are disgruntled with post-industrial life.

 

“I feel like right now, with questions about how A.I. is taking over, people always have this attitude towards technology as this sexy, cool thing that’s always going ot being a benefit and I guess I am trying to take it down to a different level of expressing it in a different way and show different things basically about relationships,” she explained. 

Gordon also teamed up with her Body/Head bandmate and collaborator, Bill Nace, to curate the Folded Group exhbitiion which features visual artworks created by the duo’s peers and musicians such as Lizzi Bougatsos, Neil Burke, Tom Darksmith, CF (Christopher Forgues), Dan Greenwood, Twig Harper, Jeff Hartford, Daniel Higgs, Cameron Jamie, Jutta Koether, Lena Kolb, Bill Nace, John Olson, Lauren Pakradooni, Dennis Tyfus, Bedros Yeretzian, Nate Young, and Alivia Zivich.

According to a press release, the exhibit brings “together works by nineteen artist-musicians based in Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and throughout Western Massachusetts, the exhibition highlights aesthetics of experimentation, immediacy, and the handmade. The works on view range from paintings and woven tapestries to drawings, lathe-cut records, and sculptural noise instruments.” 

Both Count Your Chickens and Folded Group are currently up for viewing until August 16, 2026. Visit the Amant website here for more information.  The exhibit opening comes a week after the release of Gordon’s latest solo LP, ‘Play Me’. Visit here to purchase/stream the album.