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March 21, 2008 | | Gretchen Bennett |
In a two-part show for Howard House in Seattle, Gretchen Bennett presents her own work in "Hello," located in the front of the gallery, as well as curating "Supernature," located in the center gallery. Bennett is best known for her interest in urban iconography and her downloadable and printable sticker series. For "Hello," she chooses to re-examine through drawings the widespread imagery of the ill-fated lead singer of Nirvana, universal pop icon Kurt Cobain. Methodically and meticulously penciling line-by-line single video frames of her subject collected from YouTube, the artist presents colorful and luminous drawings of the drug-addled musician. By stopping motion and revealing the painstaking precision of her own hand, Bennett refreshes our view of the ubiquitous iconic image, giving us a more personal look at the star without becoming sentimental.
In the center gallery of Howard House is "Supernature", curated by Bennett, which examines the notion of the perfect landscape in the works of Saul Chernick, Andrew Guenther, Matthew Day Jackson, Alexander Kantarovsky, Robert de Saint Phalle, Suzanne Walters, and Aaron Williams. Instead of presenting a romantic and idealistic view of the natural world, the artists assert the idea that the perfect landscape can be found in artificial or abandoned settings. The show is a collection of assembled topography in the form of paintings and installations which act as landmarks or "places" for the viewer to examine. In contemporary society, we become increasingly detached from the experience of authenticity or purity in the natural world. This mediated view of our world is not Nature, but Supernature, and can offer us a new kind of authenticity.
Gretchen Bennett received her M.F.A. from Rutgers in 2001 and has exhibited widely on both coasts. She has had a solo show at Amo Gallery in Washington, and has exhibited at PS122 Gallery in New York City.
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February 08, 2008 | | Jeffrey Uslip |
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The works in "Nina in Position", the current group exhibition at Artists Space in SoHo, employ Walter Benjamin's contention that "To live is to leave traces," as a platform from which to examine the body and its environs. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition is made up of work that takes into consideration the ways in which artistic rituals, histories, and narratives are re-signified within contemporary visual culture. Artists in the exhibition include: Kelly Barrie, Justin Beal, Huma Bhabha, Anya Gallaccio, Wade Guyton, Barkley Hendricks, Roni Horn, Igloolik Isuma Productions, Mary Kelly, Charles Long, Michelle Lopez, Andrew Lord, Robert Mapplethorpe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jack Pierson, Michael Queenland, Marco Rios, Amanda Ross- Ho, Julia Scher, Haim Steinbach, Lisa Tan, Josh Tonsfeldt.
Although striving to challenge the parameters of genre, most of the work can be described as sculptural, or a hybrid of artistic disciplines that creates a "sculptural gesture." Many of the artists like Michelle Lopez and Huma Bhabha have been recognized as "sculptors" in the past, and the artworks illustrate sculpture's mercurial qualities by examining materiality, trantransience, and the process of making. Intergenerational and interracial, Nina in Position curatorial matrix places artworks in dialogue in order to identify how social, cultural, and geopolitical change occurs on a local level, as well as to articulate how methodologies, practices, and tolerance shape-shift over decades.
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January 21, 2008 | | Steven Stewart and Yasha Wallin |
On view from January 12 - February 10, 2008 at Gallery 94 in Soho is a group exhibition featuring James Brittingham, Devon Costello, Michael Greathouse, Jim Lee, Sylvan Lionni and Pete Pezzimenti titled CHANGECASE - curated by Steven Stewart and Yasha Wallin, co-directors of Freight + Volume. Bringing diversity and individualism while sharing common concerns in extending the traditions, language and possibilities of painting; CHANGECASE will aim to spotlight the properties inherent within painting as an art object and consider the interaction of painting with alternative media. By uncovering and combining essential characteristics from multiple modes of art making, the work challenges the notion of definability.
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December 12, 2007 | | Don't Call It Street Art |
Curated by Thibault Sandret of Glam Trash Pop and hosted by Virginie Sommet's Studio/Gallery 173 on Canel Street is the exhibition "Don't Call It Street Art," which will be on open to the public beginning this weekend on Dec 15th. The group show celebrates Street Art through photography, painting, collage, graphic design and live body painting. By taking the art out of its urban context and hanging in a gallery the work becomes legalized as well as institutionalized. Sandret hopes that by placing the work in the space of the gallery, people will allow themselves to slow down and take a look in a way that may otherwise not happen when quickly passed on the streets. Artists included in the show include Ogi, COL & Veng, Nathalie Hamelin, Iris Arnaud, Gary St Clare, Hugo Martin, Jake Dobkin and Alexandra Zsigmond.
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December 06, 2007 | | Art Basel Miami |
Art Basel Miami starts today at the Miami Beach Convention Center with an exclusive selection of 200 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and South Africa and will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by more than 2,000 artists. On show are exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Expect to see projects by emerging artists, new artworks, public art projects, performances video and sound art. If you missed this one you can plan to attend Art 39 Basel which takes place from June 4-8 2008 in Basel Switzerland.
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August 14, 2007 | | Carrie E. A. Scott |
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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