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November 07, 2007 | | Tracey Emin |
Tracey Emin's first Los Angeles solo show, "You Left Me Breathing", opened at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills on November 2nd. Emin, who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, is one of the hyped Young British Artists whose work gained notoriety in the mid 1990s. She recently represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale, installing large-scale neon signs and drawings on the walls of the British Pavilion. Emin openly uses her life as her subject matter and her work vacillates between virtuosity and one-liner candor. Paintings, like "Reincarnation III" (2005), explicitly play on the expressive style of Edvard Munch while neon works, like "Very Happy Girl" (1999), are gaudy and blunt. Emin's expansive oeuvre includes sculpture, drawing, video, photography, and needlework and "You Left Me Breathing" emphasizes her ambiguous, controversial breadth. At Gagosian, Emin's confessional drawings, including "Family Suite II" (1994), hang alongside her crude, tongue-in-cheek textile assemblages and her flashy neon signs contrast her large, expressionistic paintings. The Gagosian show also features a recent series of delicate jesmonite sculptures that incorporate bronze, bundled wood, cement, and glass.
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August 20, 2007 | | David Batchelor |
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 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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