Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce Ethan Murrow's first solo exhibition at our New York gallery, entitled "Zero Sum Pilot", on view from April 16th – May 23rd, 2009.

Ethan Murrow explains: "All of the projects I am involved in must be seen within the context of collaboration. I work with others whose ideas and contributions influence, inform and guide me. This process began when my wife Vita Weinstein Murrow began filming, photographing and directing me in performances in 2004. Since then we have often worked as a duo, making short videos together. The still imagery we collect forms the source material for large-scale graphite drawings that are obsessive documents of infatuated characters. Vita still assists and collaborates with me during the project development and performance stages as photos are shot to use for source imagery.

Despite a focus on working with others, the characters in recent narratives have been consistently averse to criticism and assistance. These figures, mostly male, are doomed to failure and prone to dysfunction. "Zero Sum Pilot," follows one man’s rigorous and suspect training for unknown aerial goals. He obtains sustained movement through the air, at cost. These are cautionary tales, cynical nods to the pitfalls of egotism and obsessive drive. Since I often play the central character in these dramas I intentionally implicate myself in the conflagration that the protagonists create around themselves. I mean to do this with a nod to Charlie Chaplin, who understood that idiocy is inevitable and our own role in it is assured."

Ethan Murrow and Vita Weinstein Murrow recently partnered with Harvest Films of Santa Monica to create the short film, "Dust", which was chosen as an official selection of the 46th annual New York Film festival in 2008. They are currently at work on a second film project in collaboration with Harvest Films.

For further information, please contact Amanda Snyder at 212-255-2718.