Lehmann Maupin announces its participation in LUSH LIFE, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud and inspired by Richard Price's 2008 novel of the same title. LUSH LIFE includes 60 artists, and nine Lower East Side galleries, including Lehmann Maupin. Each gallery will feature a sub-exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the novel. Evans and Lopez-Chahoud selected one artist from each gallery and solicited additional artist recommendations from each of them to participate in the exhibition.

Lehmann Maupin will represent Chapter Four: Let it Die and will exhibit the work of Jackie Saccoccio, Jessica Dickinson, Matthew Weinstein, Dani Leventhal, Rashid Johnson, Claudia Weber, Jose Lerma, Kai Schiemenz, Iris Fluegel, Robert Beck, Robert Melee, Tommy Hartung, Nina Lola Bachhuber, Cynthia Lin and Amy Longenecker-Brown. Chapter four in Price's novel addresses the attempt to ignore and let a story die, to allow for a neighborhood's history to die, and to actively bury the past and the difficulty of finding a fairer answer or resolution to a complex situation.
Both Jackie Saccoccio and Jessica Dickinson offer works that through their process-based painting and drawing emphasize the physical layers of residue to a literal past. Saccoccio's work looks to an earlier era (mid-century New York abstraction). Dani Leventhal's blood/skinning drawings, Matthew Weinstein's death-tracking skeletal hand and frisbee, and Rashid Johnson's literal death reflection mirror present the subject as non-elusively and frontal.