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 Coming Sept. 5 at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York are the photographs of Chris Gentile. Presented as allegories of his studio practice, the artist constructs lightning bolts, surfboards and lifeguard chairs that are meticulously cast in small scale and mixed with a variety of functional studio objects, such as plywood, saw horses and a trashcan. The combination of the important being symbolic and the mundane being obvious is one that allows Gentile to explore the themes of hope and abandonment. The process is co-dependent in that even while these are photographs of sculptures, they are equally shaped by the fact that their sole representation and exhibition will be through photographs rather than a viewer's firsthand experience of the tangible object. The artist received his BFA from the Ringling School of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The artist has shown work at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco and the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Va. | |||||
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 Australian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Rachel Khedoori is currently presenting a group of new sculptures with Hauser & Wirth in Zurich that continues the artist's examination of physical and metal space. Khedoori is able to achieve complex environments through the interlacing of architecture, sculpture and film. The combination of these elements allows the artist to experiment with physical and remembered space, provoking both subtly disturbing and calming sensations. For her recent exhibition, she returned to the materials of foam, plaster, wood and wax, contrasting from earlier works through the use of the model rather than a physical walk-though space. The artist first made a name for herself in a New York debut exhibition at David Zwirner with her twin sister and now acclaimed artist Toba Khedoori. Since that exhibition, Rachel Khedoori has gone on to present several international exhibitions, including works with Villa Arson in Nice, France (2004), and a self-titled exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel (2001). Khedoori completed her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (1988) and her MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles (1994). | |||||
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 Opening next week at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, U.K., is "ipso facto," the digital prints of artist Ray Caesar. The show will correspond with the artist's first printed publication of collected works titled "Art Volume One." Caesar now lives and works in Toronto, though he was born in the U.K. Before becoming a visual artist, he worked as an architect and then as a special-effects artist for TV and film. All of the artist's works are produced digitally from conception to print and often contain figurative and characteristically surreal elements. Caesar has exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions "Hidden Doors and Secret Rooms" with Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City and with The Londsdale Gallery in Toronto. The artist has also been featured in the publications Glamour Italia (March 2005) and Juxtapoz Magazine (July/Aug. 2004). | |||||
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 The artist/composer duo Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher create complex electro-mechanical sculptures that often incorporate video, robotics and motorized dioramas. Once the piece is activated by a viewer, elements come to life and begin to glow and pulsate while images project on the screen and Fisher's audio composition begins to play. The sculptures reveal a sense of discovery as the viewer negotiates reality with the mysterious device. For a recent exhibition with QED in Los Angeles, Shore and Fisher created a live video installation titled "Livefeed," which featured an analog drum mechanism and several wall-mounted light-box sculptures. Shore received a BFA in painting from the University of North Texas, while Fisher completed a D.M. in Music Composition at Northwestern University. They have both shown extensively, exhibiting with Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, Gallery UTA in Arlington and Mixture Contemporary Arts in Houston. | |||||
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 The dreamlike, psychological investigation that is characteristic of artist Jeremy Blake's work has developed since his short film "Reading Ossie Clark" in 2003. Blake is well known for his DVDs, C-prints, paintings and drawings, all of which present visual narratives that are broken by psychedelic and hallucinogenic imagery. In 2002, the artist was invited by director Paul Thomas Anderson to create a digital series of abstracted sequences for the film Punch-Drunk Love, featuring Adam Sandler. Blake will be featured in the new issue T of art and design magazine Beautiful Decay, which is available now. Regretfully, before that issue's release, the art world lost Jeremy Blake and his romantic partner, filmmaker, critic and video game artist Theresa Duncan in a tragic series of events. Blake, a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, was selected three times in a row for the Whitney Biennial ('00, '02, '04). His "Winchester" video series was presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Other works have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC and the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain. | |||||
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 "Days of Being Wild," a three-person exhibition featuring artists Andy Kehoe, Kathleen Lolley and Evan B.Harris, opened yesterday at The Lab 101 Gallery in Los Angeles. Each artist brings a distinct yet cohesive aesthetic to the show, using elements of illustrative mysticism, fantasy and storybook narratives in darkly sparse landscapes. Kehoe, who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and is currently represented by Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City. Lolley received her BFA from Calarts in experimental animation. She has worked on commercial animations such as Sponge Bob Squarepants and has been included in Elle Magazine and Japanese Vogue. Harris is a self-taught artist brought up in Medford, Oregon. Harris' work is largely inspired from fables, folklore and his own imagination. While each of these artists have diverse backgrounds and experiences, this show cleverly unites ideas and applications that are often saturated with American mythology, storytelling and humanistic illustration. | |||||
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 The anachronistic imagery found in much of the work of artist Bruno Peinado will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition with Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz in Zurich called "Suicidal Tendencies." For this exhibition, the artist has continued his investigation into cult-based imagery found in elements of contemporary society that are at once loaded for some and otherwise void for others. Peinado's works are a contemplation of the spectacle of society and the history of imagery and symbolism as it relates to specific cultural movements. The artist has exhibited extensively with international venues, including "The Endless Winter" at Galleria Continua in Italy and "Me, Buy-Sellf and I" at the Galerie Loevenbruck in Paris, France. The artist has recently been featured in group shows "Notre Histoire" at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and "Bang-Bang!" at the Musee d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Etienne in France. | |||||
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 The opening reception of "Scion Presents: To The Masses" is curated by Giant Robot Magazine publisher/co-editor and owner, Eric Nakamura. The exhibition opens tomorrow tonight at 7 p.m. and is on view through Sept. 8 at the Scion Installation LA Gallery in Culver City, Calif. Artists from the U.S. include Caroline Hwang, Ben Woodward, Feric, Dan-ah Kim and Brian Ralph. From Japan: Eishi Takaoka and Kohei Yamashita. From Spain: Olaf Ladousse. Together this diverse group of artists delves into different mediums (including silk-screen printing, carved wood and pen-and-ink drawings) and styles. The new Scion Installation Gallery holds art shows and art-related events for cutting-edge artists from across the globe. Giant Robot Magazine began in 1994 as a small zine and has grown into a full-fledged bi-monthly magazine available at most stores and newsstands in the U.S. Giant Robot opened its first store in 2001 and formulated a combination of pop-culture goods, ranging from Japanese import toys, graphic design and art books, and monthly art exhibitions. Giant Robot has since opened stores and galleries in San Francisco and NYC and also operates a restaurant called gr/eats in West Los Angeles. | |||||
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 The material and process-based sculptures of Foon Sham have spanned the past 20 years. The artist's recent work relies on the principles of design, and some works have shifted from the previously abstract into newly recognizable forms, such as the house. During a residency in the mid-90s, Sham created "Houses at Night," a work that formed as an intuitive response to the surrounding landscape. The piece marked a breakthrough for the artist, as he is now working more freely with familiar forms and integrating light and architecture within the work. Sham was born in Macao, China, in 1953 and moved to the United States in 1975. The artist completed his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Va., and his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA) in Oakland, Calif. Sham has continued to participate in countless exhibitions and residencies, including recent shows with Heineman Myers Gallery in Bethesda, Md., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Artist residencies include Kulturhuset USF in Bergen, Norway, and the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Riverdale, Md. | |||||
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 Brooklyn-based artist Peter Simensky's medium is money. By combining images from currency belonging to 50 failing world economies, he creates colorful collages that remain true to the scale of other notes. In 2005, Simensky partnered with the Swiss Institute to give his money/art buying power at the Armory Show in New York City where other galleries allowed pieces to be bought with what he calls "Neutral Capital." He himself uses his currency to buy work from an array of artists. He displays those pieces that he's bought in portable galleries that fold up into shipping crates. So far, his collection includes work from Yuh-Shioh Wong and Peter Coffin, among others. By assigning value to his mint, Simensky has found a way to participate in and critique the current art market. His solo exhibition "Cerca: Peter Simensky" will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through September. The artist received his MFA from CUNY Hunter College in NYC. | |||||
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 On Sept. 1, the Victoria Miro Gallery in London will present an exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Sarah Sze. As a continuation of the artist's sculptural aesthetic, Sze has created several new ephemeral installations that use throw-away materials such as water bottles, office lights, thread and scrap wood. The artist's sculptures are integrated into the gallery walls, floors and ceiling and are organized to represent a microcosm that is able to exist and function as part of a larger system. Sze is a graduate of Yale University and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited internationally with shows at Malmo Konsthall in Sweden, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Whitney Museum in NYC, and she was also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. | |||||
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 The artwork and writings of David Batchelor investigate the properties of color and how it operates outside of the functional realm, becoming a unique phenomenon all on its own. The artist is also interested in the symbolic meaning attached to color and how it affects those in its presence. Batchelor's work often takes form as sculpture, using brilliant colors with fluorescent light, neon and plastics shown through light boxes and shelving but is also known to exist in drawings, photographic series and even large-scale public works. The Scottland-born artist has exhibited recently with the Wilkinson Gallery, Gloucester Road Underground Station in London and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK. Batchelor is listed as a Saatchi Gallery artist and has participated in group shows at Galerie Leme in Sao Paulo, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and "Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright Knox in Buffalo, N.Y. | |||||
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 The paintings of Sarah Emerson use the violence and sadness of natural landscapes to provoke a sense of instability. Her muted paintings combine a variety of visual references, ranging from dead bucks and barren trees to abstract elements. Emerson's paintings embrace honesty and uncertainty in a time that she believes is hardened by the disintegration of real emotional and literal landscapes. Her reference to natural objects is used as a device to keep the paintings' feel as close to real as possible, without completely relying on literal interpretations of the surface or space. Emerson received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA from Goldsmiths College in London. The artist has exhibited at White Columns in New York, Cosmic Gallery in Paris and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Conn. | |||||
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 Opening just yesterday at Lawrimore Project in Seattle is "Anne Mathern -- Moses Lake," new photographs, film and a live installation. Along with the opening, Mathern presented a live installation and performance, featuring fantasy metal band DOOMHAWK. "Moses Lake" is the first solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project for the Seattle-based artist, and the show is centered on a cluster of small farm towns in Eastern Washington that have Greek and Hebrew-derived names but were originally inhabited and eventually stolen from Native Americans. The exhibition investigates the imposition of the cultural values embodied by one set of people upon another. Mathern received her BFA in photography from the University of Washington in 2004 and received several awards during her study, including the Marsh Scholarship and the UW Undergraduate Research Award for special projects. The artist also co-founded and currently acts as the managing director of Crawl Space, an artist-run gallery in Seattle. The artist has also exhibited with the King County Gallery 4 Culture in Seattle. | |||||
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 The work of Dan Attoe is often rooted in painting, but through recent projects and exhibits such as "Loaded, Nailed, Short on Cash," Attoe has expanded his artistic vocabulary to encompass neon- and light box-based works created from his paintings. Attoe's work employs a blue-collar, working man's aesthetic, often featuring humorous text with serious undertones. Attoe, along with fellow artists Jamie Boling and Bill Donovan, founded and currently direct the collective Paintallica, with a proclaimed manifesto, "Don't be fooled though, we don't give a shit about your art, your politics or your whiny, black-horn rimmed, Prada-wearing ass. We are Paintallica." The group usually begins their work with a drawing session, led by unstructured all-nighters of work, easily resulting in a completed exhibition by the morning. Attoe currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and has had several international solo exhibitions, including works with Peres Projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, Denmark, and with 404 Arte Contemporanea in Naples, Italy. | |||||
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 Artist Nathan Baker creates large-format photographs often depicting multiples of the same figure within a single space. Baker constructs these images digitally, allowing greater narrative possibilities to emerge and offering insight into contemporary American life. In his recent series "Rupture," the artist photographs moments directly following spills or knock-overs. Referencing Martin Heidegger's idea of the "Present at Hand," the artist's new series attempts to capture the small moments in a person's life where things temporarily break down and the routine of life stops. Baker attended Columbia College in Chicago and the Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year, the artist has presented work with the Houston Center for Photography's 25th Anniversary Juried Membership Exhibition, curated by Anne Tucker, Curator of Photography of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The artist has also exhibited his body of work "Occupation" at the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va., and with Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, this year. You can also find Baker at the Randall Scott Gallery in Washington DC from September 15 through October. | |||||
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 Opening Sept. 7, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago will present new works by photographer Charles LaBelle. LaBelle has been developing an ongoing series of works that feature hundreds of one-inch square photographs complied into a single, large and intricately compounded work. The artist acts as both a tourist and artist, traveling to cities all over the world, taking snapshots that are then brought back to his studio and arranged as a mosaic, from cut proof sheets, drawing connections and developing narratives, purely out of image association. The density of information and the fragmented depiction of each city are strikingly similar to how a viewer would take in a new city when walking around. The presentation of each piece allows for a collective understanding of a place through the observation of multiple fragments rather than a single establishing view. LaBelle received both his BA and Graduate Studies Degree from UCLA in California. The artist currently lives and works in New York City and has produced exhibitions, including "Miami Drift" at Lemon Sky Projects in Miami and "Intervals + Intensities" with the Ten in One Gallery in NYC. The artist has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation (2003) and the Getty Trust (2000). | |||||
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Curator and arts writer Carrie E.A. Scott has recently developed as a prominent force within the Seattle arts community. Scott is currently the director of the James Harris Gallery, having brought recent shows to the space such as the Rashid Johnson exhibition "Dark Matters" and recent paintings by Seattle-based artist Scott Foldesi. In addition to her duties at the James Harris Gallery, Scott is the curator for the Hedreen Gallery, a non-profit arts space housed in the Lee Center for the Arts at the Seattle University. Scott has produced numerous exhibitions within that space, including "Screen Shots: Selected works on screen by Justin Beckman, James Coupe and Tivon Rice", "Intricate Matter: Sculpture by Artist Eric Eley," and works by Jon Huck pictured below. Seattle Weekly, Seattle Magazine and Visual Codec regularly feature her selected writings and reviews, and Scott has a forthcoming article with Sculpture Magazine, "Sculpting Technology: The Monumental Art of Shawn Brixey and James Coupe." DailyServing recently caught up with the young curator to discuss more of her ideas, read the full interview below.
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Bay Area artist, entrepreneur and organizer Marc Horowitz gained national attention when he wrote "Dinner w/ Marc 510-872-7326," his actual name and cell number, on a dry-erase board, which was published in a Crate & Barrel catalog. Soon after, calls poured in, and Horowitz began "The National Dinner Tour," a traveling, dinner-eating, cross-country adventure. Since, the artist has produced several projects, including "The Errand Feasibility Study," featuring Horowitz riding a mule in downtown San Francisco while doing various tasks such as making a bank deposit. After a short stint at the San Francisco Art Institute, Horowitz and long-time collaborator, Jon Brumit founded Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, a conceptual company dedicated to solving problems by creating products such as the "office in a tent" and services such as the fog removal initiative for the Golden Gate Bridge. | |||||
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 The dynamic site-specific installations of German artist Felix Schramm deconstruct pre-existing architectural elements while bringing outside structural fragments into the gallery. Schramm creates illusion and physical tension within the space, conjuring ideas of disaster and destruction by using structural fragments that are almost indiscernible. The artist will often cut into the gallery, twisting and breaking the walls, ceilings and floors, referencing artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) are new works by Schramm, including "Misfit," which features the intersection of multiple rooms within a building, completely removed and placed in the gallery. The artist was born in Hamburg and received his MFA from the Kunstakademier in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he currently lives and works. In 2003, Schramm received a Northrhein-Westfalia's art and culture prize and, in 2000, a DAAD fellowship for study in Tokyo, Japan. | |||||
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 Gerwald Rockenschaub has been placed as one of the most internationally known Austrian artists working today. Since the early 1980s, the artist has created a complex array of works from computer animation to sculptural objects and painting. Continuity is found in the artist's work through his reductive imagery and mix of architecture, discourse and design. The artist is also a well-known techno DJ, allowing his experience with club culture to emerge and influence his works. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria, is currently presenting "My Machines," which features new works by Rockenschaub. Recently, the artist had a comprehensive retrospective at the Vienna Museum of Modern Art, which helped to fully launch his career. Just a few weeks ago, Rockenschaub received the Fred Thieler Award for painting at the Berlinische Galerie, and, last month, the artist presented a site-specific installation at documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. | |||||
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 Lithuania-born artist Zilvinas Kempinas creates site-specific installations that re-contextualize materials such as video tape to transform physical space into utter illusion. The physical and optical impact on the viewer is caused by precise geometry of structure and light. Illusions of speed and vibration are echoed through the space to accentuate the architecture and provide a new way of experiencing a usually familiar and non-descript space. The artist has been living and working in New York since the completion of his MFA at Hunter College (2002). Kempinas has experienced rapid growth since his entire 2006 exhibition at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery was purchased for the Margulies Collection in Miami. After several successful international exhibitions, the artist has been offered two upcoming major museum exhibitions with the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, in June and Kunsthalle in Vienna in 2008. The artist will also participate in the Atelier Calder in Sache, France, from January to June 2008. | |||||
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 Artist Mike Giant has reached international acclaim recently for his versatile artistic ability that spans graffiti, design and tattoo. Giant was born in Upstate New York and grew up in New Mexico. After studying architecture, he moved to San Francisco to work for Think Skateboards. In 2002, Giant traveled to Tokyo with fellow artists Sam Flores and Bigfoot to exhibit in a show presented by Fifty24SF and Beams T, and, in 2003, that artist founded the now infamous "Stay Gold" tattoo shop. Giant is currently exhibiting in the Fecal Face 7.5 Year Anniversary Show held at the Minna Gallery in San Francisco. He has upcoming exhibitions with Monster Children Gallery in Sydney, Australia, and White Walls Gallery in San Francisco and the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris. | |||||
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 The Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue space in New York City is currently presenting "With Full Consent," works dated 2004-2007 by artist Jill Magid. The exhibition continues Magid's investigation of the emotional and philosophical links between authority, protective institutions and the individual. The artist has staged and edited scenes that were captured by police using public CCTV surveillance cameras, using the footage to "seek the potential softness and intimacy of their (police) technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view ..." Magid is a graduate of science in visual studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., and completed an artist-in-residence program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The artist, who now lives and works in N.Y.C. and Amsterdam, has completed major solo exhibitions with the Tate Liverpool (2004) and the Centre D'Art Santa Monica in Barcelona (2007). | |||||
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 Outlining sidewalk stains, skid marks and graffiti on the streets on New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vages is just a portion of what goes into the work of L.A.-based artist Ingrid Calame. What may look like a Pollock-style painting at first glance is more a method of controlling shapes and outcomes than personal expression. After the painstaking process of tracing each found stain, Calame returns to the studio and begins to cut out the forms and arrange them in what she calls constellations. She then creates a final tracing of the pattern in order to transfer them onto an aluminum panel as the underdrawing for a final painting. For her first solo show at Deitch Projects in 2000, Calame included three elements of her project: colored pencil drawings, enamel on aluminum paintings and an excerpt of a large constellation. Calame received her BFA from Purchase College in New York and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Calif. The artist will be showing at the James Cohan Gallery in September and the Indianapolis Museum of Art in November. She also has a show scheduled at Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Cologne, Germany, in 2008 and has served as a studio assistant for Harriet Schorr and Chuck Close. | |||||
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 Artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor is known for creating biting social critiques executed through the exquisite craft of marquetry, or wood veneer inlay. Taylor, who is a recent MFA graduate of Columbia University School of Art, creates narratives that offer insight into America by investigating the distractions of contemporary culture such as sex, video games and luxury SUVs. The artist's combination of marquetry, often associated with luxury and the reign of Louis XIV, and the ideologies of American life, further underscores the opulence of our time. This year the artist presented "The Powder Room," an exhibition with Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles, and last year she exhibited with the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. Taylor has received awards from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and the Herbert S. Germaise Fellowship for painting and drawing. | |||||
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 Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel will be speaking on cultural imperatives and market forces in a public discussion between artists/designers Bruce Tomb, Mike Kuniavsky and Donald Fortesue held at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif., this afternoon at 4 p.m. Zittel was the 2007 Headlands Artist in Residence, producing new work that further explores her interest in the intersection of sculpture, design, architecture and technology. The artist is known to address all levels of habitation in contemporary society, consistently evaluating the most effective and sustaining methods of creation and use. Zittel is influenced by modernist design, reducing all elements of her creations to necessity. As a result, the artist continuously changes her own home to suit her changing interests and needs. She founded A-Z Administrative Services, a one-woman organization that develops a variety of products such as clothing, furniture and even food, which has been called "an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs." Zittel received her BFA from the San Diego State University (1988) and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1990). The artist has shown her works internationally with exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. Her current traveling mid-career retrospective, "Andrea Zittel: Critical Space," has been featured in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and several other major museums in North America. | |||||
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 In an exhibition ending just last week with the Peres Projects in Los Angeles, artist Chris Ballantyne presented "Existing Outside of Another." Ballantyne, who was born in Mobile, Ala., focuses much of his works on mundane architectural structures such as parking lots, old swimming pools and billboards. A dominate characteristic found in his recent work is a strong and eerie glowing natural light that seems to reference the glow of urban artificial lighting. Ballantyne, a previous DailyServing feature, moved around the country in his youth and has since remained influenced by suburban developments, interstate highways and the ideas of ownership and trespassing. Ballantyne's paintings, drawings and sculptural installations have been exhibited in "Out of Place" with the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum in California and "Body of Water" at Cheekwood Museum's Temporary Contemporary gallery in Nashville, Tenn. The artist received his MFA in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute (2002) and has since been featured in Art Forum and Artweek magazines. | |||||
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 Chris Dent is a 22-year-old British illustrator and artist who explores the energy of urban street culture through densely informative drawings of cityscapes. Dent often captures his imagery with pen directly on paper, preventing any reworking and allowing the first mark-making instinct to dominate. The artist recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London with a degree in illustration. Since his graduation, the young artist has been busy working on commissioned illustrations for Zoo York, Capitol Records and Swindle Magazine, among many others, and has also co-founded HYBRID BUNNY, a collective group of illustrators and designers. Dent has exhibited his work with the Subway Gallery and Notting Hill Arts Club, both in London. | |||||
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 Artist Susan Giles' work takes root in the eye of the tourist. The artist has presented hours of video documentation taken by vacationers and amateur videographers around the world. In 2005, Giles participated in the exhibition "Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye," curated by Francesco Bonami at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Unassuming establishing shots of local scenery are spliced with scenes of street performers and the insides of airports, among countless other nondescript locations. In a recent exhibition with the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, the artist recreated a portion of the Eiffel Tower made completely of constructed foamcore in a work titled "Pilier Sud." Both bodies of work, while formally different, present very similar conceptual concerns dealing with ideas related to tourism, place and photographic documentation. The artist is a recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and a Fulbright Full Grant to Indonisia sponsored by the Museum Nasional in Jakarta and Sekolah Tinggi Seni in Indonesia. Giles has exhibited with numerous national spaces such as Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York and Deluxe Projects in Chicago. | |||||
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 During the preparation of "Nest," a new exhibition on view at the Deitch Projects' 76 Grand Street gallery, artists Dash Snow and Dan Colen invited 30 volunteers to spend three days shredding 2,000 New York City telephone books in a grimy and most unusual installation. The group spent midnight to 8 a.m. each night wading in waist-deep shredded paper, creatively destroying everything in their process by drinking, peeing and painting while spending quality time together creating their dwelling. This performance was based on previous incidents where the artists rent a hotel room, shred phone books, string up the sheets, turn on the taps and take drugs such as mushrooms, cocaine and ecstasy until they feel like hamsters (read article in NY Magazine). Since the events took place, the gallery has remained in the condition the artists left it and will be on view for the public until August 18. Although Snow and Colen create very different works independently, Snow's work is grounded in photography and Colen's in painting. Both artists bear a gritty, raw and rebellious sensibility in their work. Snow has exhibited recently at Sutton Lane in London and Rivington Arms in NYC. Colen, a previous DailyServing feature, recently exhibited "No Me" at Peres Projects in Berlin and "Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors (My Friend Dash's Wall in the Future)" at Deitch Projects and Peres Projects in Los Angeles. | |||||
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