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 Performance artist Andrea Fraser has long been acclaimed as provocateur, leading a unique style of performance art coined as "institutional critique." The artist has conducted many famous performances, such as the 1989 work "Museum Highlights," where the artist posed as a Museum tour guide under her stage name Jane Castleton at the Philadelphia Museum. During the piece the artist walked different groups around the institution using grandiose verbiage often associated with overly intellectualized critics, art historians and gallery directors. Perhaps her most controversial work to date is "Untitled" (2002) a videotape performance where Fraser had a 60 minute sexual encounter with a prominent art collector through a contractual agreement. The artist proposed the piece to the Friedrich Petzel Gallery and asked them to facilitate an agreement between the artist and the patron in which the patron participated in the production of contemporary art through a sexual act in a hotel room. In the end, the patron paid $20,000 for the work in the form of an unedited videotape of the performance, and one other copy went on view at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery. The New York Times Magazine reviewed the work and reflected both its art historical position and its opposition by many in the New York community. | |||
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 On view now at John Connelly Presents is the solo exhibition "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late," by New York-based artist Scott Hug. For the show, Hug is presenting a new body of paintings, sculpture, video and text-based work that continues his interest in the media, pop culture and politics. The artist appropriates images from media sources like Time Magazine and The New York Post in order to highlight the public's obsession with celebrity news. One series contains headshots of celebrities taken from the New York Post's Page Six gossip columns, reduced to a two color screen print and coupled with self help phrases such as, "Get Well Soon" and "Too Much Stress." Hug received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Masters in communication design from Pratt Institute. The artist has exhibited with Deitch Projects, D'Amelio Terras, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and The Kitchen in NYC. Hug appeared in a review in the New York Times which featured his collaborative exhibition with Michael Magnan at John Connelly Presents in 2004. | |||
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 New York-based photographer Dan Eckstein works as a documentarian, simultaneously creating editorial and fine art imagery. In a recent project "Picture China," Eckstein traveled over 10,000km documenting the rapid growth of a contemporary China over an eight week period. The artist visited both metropolitan and rural areas, capturing the people and places of that country and the issues that impact their life. Other photographic series include, "West 4th Street Handball," an investigation of New York City's popular street sport, and "Air Guitar," exploring the fringe culture of air guitar contests which have recently developed as an international sport conducted in front of large crowds. Eckstein received a BA in Fine Arts from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY in 2002, and currently lives and works as independent editorial photographer in NYC. When not traveling, he teaches photography for Common Ground, a non-profit arts organization in NYC. | |||
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 Cleveland-based artist Michael Dotson is interested in the appearance of things, especially through the lens of fashion and architecture. Dotson looks at how individuals and spaces become dressed up and made to compensate or fight against an otherwise mundane body or landscape. Created under the principle that fascination comes out of boredom, Dotson has taken structures such as sports arenas as a point of departure to explore the aesthetic value of these spaces over their function. Through this process, the sports field environments become a seemingly arbitrary space divided by linear patterns. Last year, the artist graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art which has been followed by exhibitions at Spaces Gallery and Frontroom Gallery in Cleveland and Playspace Gallery in San Francisco. | |||
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 Los Angeles-based artist Natalia Fabia will present "Hooker Safari: A Glamorous Jungle Pageant," a solo exhibition of new works with the Corey Helford Gallery in L.A. The artist's realist figurative style of painting, mixed with the humorously seductive women pictured in the jungle with wildlife raise interesting questions like, "what are these hookers doing in the jungle?" This over the top imagery will be matched in the exhibition with an exotic vine installation comprised of chandeliers, flowers, and glitter. During the opening, Fabia will debut 'Hooker Medallions', a limited edition series of jewelry from the artists 'Hookerfeathers' collection. The artist was raised in Southern California and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Fabia has been featured in exhibitions at Thinkspace Gallery in Santa Monica and the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, and has appeared in Angeleno, Juxtapoz, and the New York Arts magazine. | |||
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 Lawrence Weiner is mounting a new body of work, "As Far As The Eye Can See", at the Whitney Museum from November 2007 through February 2008. The artist uses words to serve as the raw material for his art. Words are spoken, sung, painted, printed, stamped on coins and manhole covers, put to film, just about anywhere. The text is intended to help people understand their relationship to the objects in their world. Weiner is one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of Conceptual Art and has defined art as "the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings". Recent solo exhibitions of Weiner's work have been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Weiner has produced various films and videos, including "Beached, Do You Believe in Water?", and "Plowman's Lunch". Weiner lives in New York and Amsterdam. | |||
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 New York-based photographer, video, and performance artist Laurel Nakadate has developed a series of ongoing projects that began during her graduate studies at Yale University School of Art in which she involves middle-aged single men in a series of uncomfortable scenarios. The artist's work successfully mixes voyeurism, awkwardness, and manipulation with ideas of feminism, the male gaze and power. Often she will invite men who hit on her in parking lots, grocery stores and the on the street to come to her apartment or she will go to their homes and ask them to participate in events such as a fake birthday party for her or dancing to Britney Spears songs with a Hello Kitty boombox. More often than not the men, out of desperation, blindly follow Nakadate's requests to perform in the videos, regardless of how uncomfortable they may be. In another project, the artist, as an adult, dressed in an authentic Girl Scout uniform and went door to door with a secret camera selling countless boxes of cookies, attempting to enter the home of the buyer. Nakadate's work began as an undergraduate student at School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when she would document young women at wild parties in the Boston area. Later at Yale, the artist began conducting her projects through video which eventually led to several successful works that drew attention at the 2002 Armory Show in NYC. In 2005, Nakadate presented "Love Hotel and Other Stories," which was featured in the New York Times and the Village Voice. This was followed by an acclaimed video in the 2005 "Greater New York" exhibition at P.S.1 in NYC. The Believer Magazine conducted an excellent interview with the artist in October of 2006.
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 On view through this week at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago is a new solo exhibition by Hans Hemmert titled, "this preparation of readiness for keeping oneself open to the arrival or absence of the god." Hemmert is an artist who has become known for his humor infused philosophical works that reside in ideas of space, physicality, religion and the state of being. The artist has also developed a signature use of the color yellow, which often appears as an amorphous blob in his work. For his current exhibition with Kavi Gupta, Hemmert presented several yellow fiberglass sculptures along side other light and text sculptures, video animations and drawings. The works mix religious references with that of pop-culture, such as the piece "I am the way, the truth and the life [14:6]. I am the vine and you are the branches [15:1]" which shows John the Evangelist morphing into a boom box. Hemmert currently lives and works in Berlin, and studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and at St. Martins School of Art in London. This year, the artist exhibited with Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn in Germany, and last year exhibited "ego sum via" with Carlier/Gebauer in Berlin.
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 Opening this weekend at Samson Projects in Boston, Massachusetts, is a series titled "Self Portraits" by artist Gabriel Martinez. For this exhibition, the artist's "self portraits" are not of himself, as the title would suggest, instead he conducted several photo sessions with supposed heterosexual men who he lends his camera equipment to photograph their feet at the point of sexual climax. The artist initially presented the series in 1998 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where he displayed over a 100 images. The work is an attempt to redirect and record the intimate act of pleasure as it relates to the gay male gaze, and to open the imagery to larger social concerns. Martinez lives and works in Philadelphia and received his MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 1991. He has exhibited and performed at White Columns in NYC, Exit Art, NYC, and Institute of Contemporary Art in Pennsylvania. For the exhibition, Samson projects as developed a catalogue with an essay by Richard Torchia. | |||
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 De Jong was born in the Netherlands in 1972. He co-founded Space For Artists in Amsterdam, and in 2003, was a finalist for the Prix de Rome for sculpture. The artist has recently completed the exhibitions "Der Falsche Prophet", Peres Projects, Berlin, "Gott Mit Uns", Lever House, New York and "Medusa's First Move: The Council", Chisenhale Gallery, London. | |||
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 Artist Francesca DiMattio's paintings are rooted in architectural structures and the still life, yet explode with movement due to the deconstruction and fragmentation of these otherwise familiar and stable objects. Scale is very important in a DiMattio painting, as the artist attempts to engulf the viewer within the imagery, furthering the illusion of space both through scale and through the flattening of the objects rendered. Open through next week is "Unhinged," new paintings by the artist at LAXART in Los Angeles. For this exhibition, the artist continues explore these activated surfaces that now occupy a narrow gallery, literally consuming the space. DiMattio received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2003, and her MFA at Columbia University in 2005. Since graduation, the artist has completed exhibitions at Salon 94 in NYC, Frederick Snitzer in Miami, and Marvelli Gallery also in NYC. | |||
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 Well known filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien came to prominence in the film world with his 1989 drama-documentary "Looking for Langston." By incorporating themes of sexuality and race, Julien's work expands conventional strategies of narrative and beauty to explore stereotypical cinematic portrayals of gay and black subjects. Julien's work addresses issues of class, sexuality, and artistic and cultural history, creating a cinematic experience that draws form different artistic disciplines. He comments on film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture to construct a powerfully visual narrative. Julien founded the Sankofa Film and Video Collective in 1984 and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1999. In 1991, Julien received the best film prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He has won many other prestigious awards such as the MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award and an Andy Warhol Foundation Award. Julien's work has recently traveled from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, to the MoCA Miami and Kestner Gesellschaft, in Hanover and many other locations. | |||
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 New York-based artist Dannielle Tegeder recently opening the exhibition "7(x) = 20x + x5d-1 + (Yellow)", at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. The seven new works on paper are based on a diagrammatic method of illustrating space which results in a geometric materiality that is concrete and stable. The artist combines linear patterns with hard edged painting to create the illusion of space and speed on the work's surface. Tegeder received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and since exhibited in PS1/MoMA, the New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in (MCA) Chicago. The artist has also completed a residency program with Smack Mellon in NYC and has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Yaddo Foundation.
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 Opening this weekend at L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California is an exhibition of recent paintings and other works on paper by British artist Tony Bevan. For this series the artist has returned to the subject matter of heads and architectural structures, both of which are rendered with a crude application of acrylic paint and pure pigments, evoking a refined yet primitive surface. Formally, Bevan's painting read much like drawings, being composed of think lines of charcoal mixed with paint applied using a brush which has been reduced to a stump. This process thereby eliminates any sense of the paint's liquid properties, and allows the work to embody strong physical characteristics and richly dense textures. Bevan studied painting and sculpture at Bradford School of Art in the UK and later at Goldsmiths' College and the Slade School of Fine Art. The artist began experimenting with the mediums of film, video and installation while cultivating his painting and sculpture. Bevan has exhibited world-wide with museum exhibitions at the ICA in London, the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst Haus der Kunst, Munich, and a major retrospective was presented by the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM) in Valencia, Spain in 2005. This year Bevan had the honor of becoming a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. | |||
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 The Moti Hasson Gallery in New York City is currently presenting "Waking the Dead," a new body of work by Canadian-born, New York-based artist Jillian McDonald. The exhibition will include a special performance on Halloween night. Within the show, the artist has produced several videos and a series of photographs which feature images that are derivative from a variety of horror films. In the work above, "Horror Makeup (2006), McDonald films herself transforming into a zombie as viewers gaze upon the transformation on an otherwise 'normal' subway ride. In reference to placing herself in the work, Mcdonald states "My presence in the work is not autobiographical. I think it's clear that my image serves as a deliberate subject who enacts shared fantasies or fears." McDonald received funding the exhibition in part by a grant from Pace University, and created the work through residencies in New York at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program, The School of Visual Arts, and The Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. The artist received her MFA from Hunter College in NYC, and has complete exhibitions worldwide including works with Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, and upcoming exhibitions with 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA, and Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery in Vancouver. | |||
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 The word tattoo is said to have two major derivations- from the polynesian word 'ta' which means striking something and the tahitian word 'tatau' which means 'to mark something'. An all-star cast of rock and roll artists including Kaws, Dash Snow, Michael Bevilacqua, Dan Colen, and Brad Kahlhamer, whose work is shown above, present their "marking" skills at "Tattoo Flash," a group exhibition at Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The shop is owned and operated by Scott Campbell, a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist and designer known mainly for his laser-cut designs. The show celebrates art inspired by the visual legacy of tattoo flash and the rich history it encompasses. From sacred icons and tribal identification to jail tattoos and sensationalized association of tattoo design, "Tattoo Flash" explores how the tattoo has transcended all mediums and is no longer limited to markings on flesh but embraces an entire genre. The exhibited works include ink on paper, collages of reworked vintage books, lipstick-kiss-covered canvasses, and knife installations. As with other artistic mediums and cultural developments, the vocabulary of tattoo flash continually evolves, and the definition and boundaries of body marking in recent years has emerged to the forefront of popular culture as well as the art world. | |||
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 On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through Feb 2008, artist Kara Walker will be showing "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love". The artist explores racism in the American psyche through large-scale silhouettes that tell a story as they spread from one end of a room to the other. Walker has created a repertoire of narratives in which she conflates fact and fiction to uncover the roots of racial and gender bias. Her imagery is haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation while depicting historical narratives of injury caused by the legacy of slavery. She's been featured in Art21 and was in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, Artists and Entertainers in 2007. Walker received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She now lives in New York and is on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University. | |||
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 New York City based artist Daniel Lefcourt currently is exhibiting his first solo exhibition in Zurich with the Mitterrand and Sanz Gallery. For this show, the artist will present a group of new sculptures some of which have been designed specifically for the gallery space. Lefcourt's work is carefully positioned between sculpture and painting, creating a dialogue between real and abstracted space. The artist often calls into question that which is usually negated or denied, revealing signs of absence. For the exhibition, that artist prepared this statement about the work "I am not going to address specifics... I have no present knowledge... I have already been quite clear about this in the past... your interpretation in no way corresponded to my intention... This is the only answer I can give you... I am not at liberty to disclose... The declarations being made are outlandish and filled with error... Such a thing is pure speculation... I'm sorry you understood it that way... It's unfortunate..." Lefcourt was born in NYC and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2005. Since, the artist has completed solo exhibitions at Sutton Lane in Paris (2007) and Taxter and Spengemann in NYC (2004/06) among others. | |||
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Acclaimed British sculptor, installation artist and musician Richard Wilson was born in 1953 and currently lives and works in London. The artist is one of England's best-known sculptors and has gained much notoriety for his ambitious architectural interventions and reconstructions which are often noted as architectural magic. In the video shown above, Wilson literally cut into the building, connecting the piece to a track allowing it to rotate in place. The artist often explores the relations of space to architecture and related structures, giving new form through reconfiguration and assembly thus changing the viewer's perception of the form. Wilson is scheduled to present a new exhibition in Galleria Fumagalli in Italy opening this Saturday, October 13 at 6pm. The artist studied at the London College of Printing, Hornsey College of Art and received his MFA from the Reading University in Berkshire, UK. Wilson has been nominated for the Tuner Prize twice and most notably completed the DAAD residency in Berlin in 1992. He has completed signature works for the Saatchi Gallery and the Matt's Gallery early in his career and has since been collected by museums worldwide such as Weltkunst Collection at IMMA, Dublin and the Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw among many others.
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 In a new body of work titled A Castle Dark (For Cathy), artist Hilary Wilder tells the story of Cathy Smith, a former groupie to The Band also known for her troubled relationship with singer Gordon Lightfoot and her implication in the drug-related death of John Belushi. The series of paintings are constructed from the visual details of her life while paying homage to Canadian landscape painter, Tom Thomson. Wilder received a B.A. in Studio Art from Bates College and an M.F.A. in painting at the University of Wisconsin. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts. Wilder is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. The artist is also taking part in a group show titled "The Sirens' Song" opening October 11 at Rubin Center in El Paso. | |||
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 Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi in London is opening a new exhibition today for the acclaimed artist Louise Bourgeois. Bourgeois, who is currently 95 years old, is highly regarded as one of the most important artists working today. For the exhibition "LOUISE BOURGEOIS: New Work", the artist will feature a major new body of cast sculptures, gouaches and two complete portfolios of hand-colored prints. The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of the artist's work at Tate Modern also opening this month. Bourgeois draws much of her inspiration from her childhood and from a deep examination of feminine sexuality, stating "My work is not an illustration of anything, but rather it expresses an emotional state, good or bad." The artist is known for the diverse materials that make up her work, often using multiple forms and materials to express reoccurring symbolism and themes in her work. Bourgeois was born in France; she studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and has worked in the US since 1938. Her current exhibition at the Tate will travel from 2008 and 2009 to Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, LAMoCA, Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. | |||
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 Opening this past weekend at the Deitch Projects 76 Grand Street gallery is the exhibition "Pictures Last Longer," featuring new paintings by artist Micah Ganske in his first solo exhibition in NYC. The ambiguous imagery employed by the artist has been stated as optimistically pessimistic, cynically sincere, or epically banal. Ganske investigates our complex world by seductively revealing the potential for the horrible. The artist has developed a technique for paint application that uses staining to eliminate surface texture, resulting in a physical painting that resembles an ink-jet print. This time consuming process takes more than four or five months to complete for larger works. Ganske received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2005. The artist was included in "The Garden Party" at Deitch Projects in 2006 and received the Adobe Design Achievement Award from the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. | |||
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 "The Searchers" is a series of photography conducted by the collaborative duo Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher which investigates Western spiritual tourism in India. The project, which is currently on view at the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 in The Netherlands, developed from a year-long trip that the artists took throughout ashrams, retreat centers and pilgrimage destinations of India. What was discovered through that religious landscape was varied and was stated by the artists as "a more nuanced relationship than we expected between India and the Westerners." Other related projects for Bezzubov include "Things Fall Apart," a photographic series that illustrates the aftermath of natural disasters in India, California, the Midwest, Florida, and Indonesia and Thailand, and "The Gringo Project," which is a series of portraits of Western travelers in third world countries. "Things Fall Apart" has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, and has been exhibited in the Front Room Gallery in Williamsburg, NYC, and with Taylor De Cordoba in Los Angeles. Bezzubov received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art and her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York, Purchase. The artist has received two Fulbright Scholarship Awards, one from travel to Cambodia (2000-01) and one for travel to India (2005-06). | |||
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 Parisian artist Prune Nourry's work investigates elements of many current social and scientific issues such as genetic modification, stem cell research, fetishes and the commodification of the human form. The artist conducted a project of celebrity led fetishes with dogs and other pets as well as pet-baby substitution piece. For her latest work "Adoption Day," the artist will conduct a performance piece scheduled for today in Regents Park / Central London presented by Jaguar Shoes. For this performance the artist has created five figurative silicone sculptures that are designed to be a hypothetical genetic hybrid baby. These sculptures will each be accompanied by a nanny and will travel from different parts of London, the performance will end with a series of family photo sessions including the newly created family addition. | |||
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 Opening at P.P.O.W. in late October, Judy Fox will be showing "Snow White and the Seven Sins". Playing on the classic Disney storyline Fox uses Pride, Envy, Anger, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony and Lust as surreal objects to surround a beautiful nude adolescent girl who is seemingly unconscious. Known for her sculptures of children rendered with refinement; exploration of the child's body in life-size naturalistically-painted clay, the artist explores contemporary sociological issues by creating vulnerable, naked and exposed individuals. Fox received her Masters from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and has received two NEA grants, and an award from the "Anonymous Was a Woman" foundation. She is a fellow of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and is a 2006 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The P.P.O.W gallery in NYC and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris both currently represent Fox. | |||
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 Using materials such as beet juice, crushed blackberries, fabric dye, bleach, and oil paint on unprimed canvas, Patrick Hill creates ephemeral-seeming paintings and sculptures in his first New York solo show, "Forming" at Bortolami-Dayan in Chelsea. Hill sets up a range of juxtapositions in his works--the organic and synthetic, traditional and non-traditional, decaying and enduring, to create an oddly harmonious and symbiotic environment in which these materials intersect and rely on each other. As Hill explains, his work is about "personal as well as universal human concerns of life and death, fate and chance, tension and balance…and out of degeneration and rebirth come the materialization of form." Hill especially plays with the notions of permanence and impermanence in this exhibition. An unpredictable and whimsical mobile brings together components such as glass, concrete, steel and fabric, taking cues in structure and materiality from artists like Alexander Calder, Lee Bontecou, and Richard Serra. The use of unprimed canvas calls to mind the work of Helen Frankenthaller and Robert Morris, and Hill's process of layering fabric and allowing substances to soak into the canvas allows for the ability to see both the evidence of residue and the active process of decay. Patrick Hill was born in Michigan and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions with David Kordansky in LA, the Reliance in London and Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago. Group exhibitions include: Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis and the upcoming show "Imagine Los Angeles," Spruth Magers Munich Projekte, Munich, Germany. | |||
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 "the return of the real" is a new exhibition opening this week at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London that will feature the outcome of artist Phil Collins' Tate Tuner Prize nominated work that features true stories of television betrayal. The artist investigates the post-documentary culture that has become known as reality TV, and the surrounding issues of authenticity and illusion, intimacy and inaccuracy, expectation and betrayal. For the past four years Collins has been engaging with the media through reality TV formats, taking testimonials from former show participants and industry professionals that reveal televisions exploitations. Through this process the artist is able to introduce performance and conceptually grounded approaches to video and photography through popular culture and low-budget production. The artist received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester and his graduate degree from the University of Ulster, Belfast, and now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
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 In an upcoming exhibition opening this Thursday at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle, artist Katrina Moorhead will exhibit the work "on or about December 1981," a set of DeLorean car doors exquisitely crafted out of plywood. Moorhead explores ideas related to beauty, temporality, failure, and optimism, and through these doors is able to elevate the controversial car and production factory in Belfast to highlight its short life. In addition, the artist will also exhibit a series of drawings that also convey a sense of somberness. Born in Northern Ireland in 1971, Moorehead represented her country in the last Venice Biennale. In 2005 she received the International Artists in Residence Award at the Artpace Foundation in San Antonio, TX; she now lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist received an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland in 1996, and has completed solo exhibitions at the Inman Gallery (2006) and Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery (2002). | |||
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 Blowing up on the rock-poster scene, Leia Bell is bringing a new show of posters and original paintings titled "The Business of Ferrets" to the Richard Goodall Gallery in London Sept. 29 - Oct. 25. After only seven years Bell has created 250 limited edition hand-printed silk-screened music posters for bands such as Echo and The Bunnymen, The Darkness, My Chemical Romance, and The Decemberists. Bell uses a camera to document people she knows at parties and shows. She later uses the photos as references simplifying the scene to something universal that anyone can relate to. The artist was recently featured in Print magazine's "20 Best Under 30" annual issue and Art of Modern Rock. Bell received her BFA in Print Making from University of Utah. | |||
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