 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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 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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 Sean Landers' work is known for its risky experimentation that allows the artist to expose his process of creation. Although the work avoids consistency in a particular medium or style, Landers' work acts as a self-portrait that relies on influences of contemporary culture that's often revealed through text. His most recent exhibition with the Andrea Rosen Gallery consists of only text-based paintings that build up texture across the picture plane, creating a delicate, beautiful surface with biting personal content. Often, the images have an easy-to-follow dialogue, but many of them also become abstracted in image and concept. Landers received his degree from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984 and his MFA from Yale University in 1986. In the past few years, he has had shows with Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo, greengrassi in London and Sister in Los Angeles. In addition, Landers has been involved in the fourth Berlin Biennial and other group shows with P.S.1 in New York and the Serpentine Gallery in London. | |||
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 Bay Area artist Tauba Auerbach is currently exhibiting new text-based works at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. Auerbach investigates semantic systems, playfully combining letters to create new meanings, while challenging the limitations of typography and language. Employing elements of hard-edged abstraction, the artist is able to use her experiences as a sign painter to explore the function of lettering and text in society, insightfully inquiring into the meaning of the seemingly random shapes of the alphabet. Auerbach often uses eye charts, binary systems and elementary design to reveal the extensional functions of language. The artist is a graduate of Stanford University in San Francisco (2003) and was featured in her first New York City solo exhibition this past fall at the Deitch Projects. Auerbach, a previous DailyServing feature, also received a review in Artforum for her San Francisco exhibition this month. | |||
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 Artist Chris Johanson's brightly colored, socially saturated works offer a humorous light to current cultural and societal feelings. With the background of the artist rooted in contemporary culture rather than formal art training, Johanson is able to rely solely on his personal experiences and the collective experience of all Americans to explore absurdity and humor in contemporary life. The artist is a prolific creator and clearly prefers a steady stream of ideas to be completed over tedious long-term works. Johanson is a Bay Area artist who is often included in the "Mission School," a group of suburban-influenced creators, including Barry Mcgee and Margaret Kilgallen. Johanson was launched into art stardom after receiving the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and being included in 2002 Whitney Biennial. The following year, the artist completed an exhibition with the Deitch Projects in New York City titled "Now is Now" and was included in an exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. This year, the artist will exhibit "Apex: Chris Johanson" at the Portland Art Museum, and, in 2008, Johanson will exhibit again with the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. | |||
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 A new multi-media extravaganza exhibition titled "a very anxious feeling" by assume vivid astro focus (avaf) is on view with John Connelly Presents in New York City. The exhibition contains three environments within the gallery and includes 3-D wallpaper, a corridor of music, flashing neon sculptures, video and a room with a series of music-related performances. A featured installation titled "Four-letter words" is comprised of wrapped objects and text-based wallpaper with provocative words such as BUSH, HOMO, PRAY, ANAL and HOPE. The gallery also converted the store-room basement into an extension of the show that features five abstract neon sculptures. In addition, the exhibition contains a re-installed series of work from a previous exhibition titled "absorb viral attack fantasy" with Hiromi Yoshii in Tokyo. assume vivid astro focus is led by artist Eli Sudbrack and is said to contain many members who are all born anytime between the 20th and 21st centuries in various parts of the world. This year, (avaf) will exhibit assume vivid astro focus XVIII with Deitch Projects as a follow up to the widely popular exhibit in 2003. (avaf) will also be featured this year in "Destroy Athens" at Athens Biennial and "Space for The Future" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. | |||
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 The sculptures and installations of Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens explore light and language through manipulated materials. The artist investigates connections between images and language as he transforms constructed objects into words. The artist projects light onto carefully organized objects to create small phrases within the shadow. Eerdekens uses a variety of materials to achieve this, including artificial trees, plants, piles of clothing and household goods to extend the direct relationship between the object and language. The artist is represented by Tache Levy Gallery in Brussels and Spencer Brownstone in New York. Recently, Eerdekens exhibited with Galerie Grita Insam in Vienna and MuHKA in Antwerp. | |||
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 The late Ian Hamilton Finlay is a modernist artist whose work is fundamentally carried through poetry. This month on the one-year anniversary of the artist's death Victoria Miro Gallery in London will present "The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich," which will be the largest exhibition of the artist's neon works to date. For the length of Finlay's career, almost 40 years, he created work rooted in philosophical text, literature and historical content. While based in text, the materials of Finlay's work included stone and wood carvings, silk-screen prints, landscape design and neon lights. Among the artist's many achievements are the Turner Prize, presented by the Tate in London (1985), and awards from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (2002) and the Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland (2003). Finlay also held honorary doctorates from Aberdeen University (1987), Heriot-Watt University (1993) and the University of Glasgow (2001). | |||
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 In a piece titled "Art & Life (In My Part of the World)," Nedko Solakov created a piece in a vacant and dilapidated apartment to illustrate a narrative about the distraught life of a piece of art. She, the work of art, felt neglected in this house and thus moved itself into the most well-lit room and on top of several tables. The entire apartment contains text that lets the viewer in on contextual clues that inform of past events. Solakov was born in Bulgaria in 1957 and studied at Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. While able to take on multiple media, the artist's work is always centered on a conceptual humor and often stems directly from text. In 2005, Solakov participated in a group show titled "OK:Okay" at the Grey Art Gallery, where the artist used works of de Kooning and Warhol from the Gallery's collection to create the fictitious hut of an African native who collects Western art. Solakov has received funding from numerous foundations, including the International Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), KulturKontakt and the Philip Morris Foundation. Last year, he exhibited with Galerie Arndt & Partner in Berlin and the Museum of Contemporary Art / MNAC in Bucharest. | |||
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 The paintings of New York-based Christopher Wool are often reductive by nature and contain a minimal color palette. Wool is best known for his stenciled paintings with large black lettering on a white ground with text that has been drawn from a variety of pop culture sources, including hip-hop lyrics and movie lines. The artist also employs a multitude of painterly techniques in numerous other works using materials such as spraypaint, hand paint and silk-screening. These works make reference to graffiti and further the use of text as the primary structure in the work. Later this year, Christopher Wool will exhibit with Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and in a group exhibition titled "For the People of Paris" at Sutton Lane in Paris. Last year, Wool exhibited with the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and had a solo exhibition with the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, which traveled to Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg. | |||
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 The possibilities and pitfalls of language are of constant interest to artist Tauba Auerbach. Her text-based drawings and paintings investigate the origin of language as a system for information and the relationship between meaning and symbol. The question of how a symbol is chosen and what it reveals about the human brain is also of interest. The works are presented as technically rendered typography, singularly familiar, while collectively abstracted. Her new work addresses the technological language of binary code and its inherent limitations. Auerbach is a Bay Area artist who attended Stanford University. She had a solo New York premiere at the Deitch Projects in New York City this fall and was included in The Dreamland Artist Club exhibition in 2005, organized by Creative Time and Steve Powers. The artist was reviewed in Art in America in 2005 and was reviewed in The New York Times in 2006. | |||
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 Last fall, artist Kendell Geers exhibited new works with the Stephan Friedman Gallery in London. Geers is known for exhibiting works that disrupt and confront the viewer's commonly held values, morals and principles. The artist works through a variety of media, including painting, ready-mades, neon sculpture and video, most of which contain some element of text. Geers often uses objects with loaded content such as urinals, disco balls and human skulls and covers the surface with barely discernable, but aggressive, profanity. The artist also uses pornography in much of his work to juxtapose ideas of sex with artificially constructed morals. This year, Kendell Geers will exhibit with Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Gent, Belgium, and B.P.S.22 in Charleroi, Belgium. The artist was featured in the 2006 Art Basel in Miami Beach, and, in 2005, Geers exhibited "Satyr:Ikon" with Galleria Continua in San Gimigano, Italy, and "Hung, Drawn and Quartered" with the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. | |||
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