SPORT | Type A

Type A

Prize (folly), 2005
Aluminum & auto body paint
Cup: 72” x 60” x 20”, overall dimensions variable

Type A is a collaborative team of the artists Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. For Prize (folly) they have created a monumental white athletic protective cup that appears to have toppled from the hill where it was mounted and cracked in two. The work celebrates machismo while also representing its vulnerability.

Type A

Adam Ames
Born 1969
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education
1997 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1994 International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1991 B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Andrew Bordwin
Born 1964
Lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY and works in New York, NY

Education
1987 B.A., New York University, New York, NY

Adam and Andrew have been exhibiting as a collaborative team since 1999. Selected solo exhibitions include The Black Box, ARCO, Madrid, Spain (2005); Push, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2004); Type A: Spittakes and Selected Videos, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (2004); Mark/Point/Stand, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2003); The Pre-Career Retrospective, California State University, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Art Complex, Los Angeles, CA (2002); and Insertions, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY (2001)

Selected group exhibitions include: Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY (2005); Special, Kustera/ Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (2005); Regarding Clementine, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY (2005); Will Boys Be Boys?, Independent Curators International travelling exhibition: The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (2004 – 2007); Screwball, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2004); The Squared Circle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2003); The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss, Debs and Co., New York, NY (2003); Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2002); Tent, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, NL (2001); Freestanding, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (2001); Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA (2001); Selections From Art In General: A Program of Short Video Works, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, Havana, Cuba (2000); Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, NY (2000); Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2000); Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (2000); Game On!, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2000); Achieving Failure, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY and Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2000); Representing: A Show of Identities, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (2000); Making Time, Institute Of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL; Armand Hammer Museum, University Of California, Los Angeles, CA (2000); Manly, Art In General, New York, NY (2000); International Photography Biennale, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico (1999); Zapping Zone, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria (1999); Hang Time, White Columns, New York, NY (1999); Luster, Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, New York, NY (1999); Three Suitcases, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico (1999); Paradise 8, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY (1999); Recursion, Flipside Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (1999); and Scope 1, Artists Space, New York, NY (1999).