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# Speechless: David Deutsch at Southfirst
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/speechless-david-deutsch-southfirst/
- Published: 2011-05-05T16:00:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:37.000Z
- Description: Speechless is a new and evolving series that will review, discuss and comment on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals. Our inaugural edition explores David Deutsch's Nothing Real at Southfirst.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

**Speechless* is a new and evolving series that will review, discuss and comment on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals. To guarantee that the sources are not lost, the information for each image is available when you roll-over it and/or when you click through. All images with no click throughs were taken by the author.*

![Left to right, "Nothing Real" (2011), "Shade" (2010), "The Carlton" (2010), "Idle" (2009) by David Deutsch](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-01.jpg "Left to right, "Nothing Real" (2011), "Shade" (2010), "The Carlton" (2010), "Idle" (2009) by David Deutsch")

![David Deutsch's "Pink Figure" (2009) in context](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-02.jpg "David Deutsch's "Pink Figure" (2009) in context")

![David Deutsch's "Nothing Real" (2011) in context](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-03.jpg "David Deutsch's "Nothing Real" (2011) in context")

[![John Schiff's photography Marcel Duchamps's "Mile of String" twine at First Papers of Surrealism (South view), 1942. Philadelphia Museum of Art, via toutfait.com](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/1stpapersofsurrealism-600.jpg "1stpapersofsurrealism-600")](http://www.toutfait.com/online%5Fjournal%5Fdetails.php?postid=47245&ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![Graffiti on the walls of Wreck Room on Flushing Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/wreckroom-600.jpg "wreckroom-600")](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/3208668992/in/set-72157612682145515/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

![David Deutsch, "Nothing Real" (2011)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-04.jpg "David Deutsch, "Nothing Real" (2011)")

[![Neil Jenney, "Risk and Hazard" (1969)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/edelman12-10-10-4.jpg "Neil Jenney, "Risk and Hazard" (1969)")](http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/edelman/gallery-ramble-hirst-holzer-jasper-johns12-10-10%5Fdetail.asp?picnum=4&ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![A 1966 Buick Special painted by Keith Haring in front of a large work by Retna. They are on display at MOCA's "Art in the Streets."](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/ketihharing-600.jpg "ketihharing-600")](http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/art-in-the-street-imagines-cars-and-ice-cream-trucks-as-canvases/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/daviddeutsch-flickr.jpg "daviddeutsch-flickr")](http://www.flickr.com/photos/manitobamuseum/2188951479/in/set-72157603705695683?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![Nancy Spero, "Atom Bomb" (1966)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/105392.jpg "Nancy Spero, "Atom Bomb" (1966)")](http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/artwork%5Fdetail.asp?G=&gid=652&which=&ViewArtistBy=&aid=15935&wid=423879248&source=artist&print=1&rta=http://www.artnet.com)

![Detail of David Deutsch's "Shade" (2010)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-05.jpg "Detail of David Deutsch's "Shade" (2010)")

!["Williamsburg Bridge: scrap yard" via flickr.com/docman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/burgvandal.jpg "burgvandal")

[![A view of the bathrooms at Wreck Room, Bushwick, Brooklyn](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/wreckroom2-600.jpg "wreckroom2-600")](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/3207820471/in/set-72157612682145515/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![The bathrooms at the New Museum, via cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/museum-toilets.jpg "museum-toilets")](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/the-world-of-art-museum-toilets-revealed/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![Marcel Duchamp and one his urinals, via artsravel.blogspot.com](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/duchamp-with-urinal-600.jpg "duchamp-with-urinal-600")](http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2010%5F03%5F01%5Farchive.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[![An abstract painting, ‘Fluffy Green Spot’, by Eugene Pizzuto hangs on a wall above a Hans Wegner, 1950s dining table. The side chairs are Italian, 1950s. via newyorksocialdiary.com](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/chair-abstract-600.jpg "chair-abstract-600")](http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1077915?ref=hyperallergic.com)

![David Deutsch's "Drama" (2009) in context](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-06.jpg "David Deutsch's "Drama" (2009) in context")

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/vynex01.jpg "vynex01")](http://www.harplounge.com/2010/08/1950s-australian-vogue-magazine-interiors/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

![Veken sitting by David Deutsch's "Drama" (2009)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/deutsch-07.jpg "Veken sitting by David Deutsch's "Drama" (2009)")

*David Deutsch’s* [Nothing Real](http://southfirst.org/DEUTSCH.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) *is on view at Southfirst (60 N 6th Street, Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn) until May 8, 2011.*