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Kerry Tribe in conversation with Lynne Tillman at Oculus Hall, The Broad

Brian Butler May 11, 2018

The Un-Private Collection: Kerry Tribe + Lynne Tillman on Joseph Beuys

Thursday, May 17th, 2018  |  7:30 PM

Oculus Hall at The Broad

221 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

$15

Organized by The Broad and X-TRA, this special three-part iteration of The Un-Private Collection addresses the legacy of German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys in relation to contemporary art practice. Each program highlights a theme central to Beuys and invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and ideas through that lens.

New York writer Lynne Tillman and Los Angeles visual artist Kerry Tribe will speak on lies and myth. Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature. In their work, Tillman and Tribe both investigate the construction of narrative and knowledge. This conversation will explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception. Moderated by Shana Lutker, a Los Angeles artist and co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.

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Judy Ledgerwood. Chromatic Patterns for Chicago, 2011.

Judy Ledgerwood. Chromatic Patterns for Chicago, 2011.

Judy Ledgerwood: Chromatic Patterns for the Art Institute of Chicago

Brian Butler May 10, 2018

Judy Ledgerwood

Chromatic Patterns for the Art Institute of Chicago

10 May - 30 September, 2018

The Art Institute of Chicago

Bluhm Family Terrace

159 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 

This spring Ledgerwood’s work occupies the Art Institute’s Bluhm Family Terrace, covering the vertical surfaces in a pink vinyl painted with her signature quatrefoil pattern in gold enamel paint. Central to the installation is the artist’s sustained interest in the relationship between pictorial space and the physical space that contains the work: in this case, the painting depends on the architecture for its structure while also directly challenging it. The pink background, installed in long, horizontal washes of color, gently sags in the center, appearing as if it were a textile pinned at the upper corners. These pink curves filled with floral motifs rebel against the terrace’s strict, vertical architectural elements, while the gold paint—reflective, drippy, and distinctly material—activates the otherwise neutral modernist space.

Chromatic Patterns for the Art Institute of Chicago reaches beyond painting to alter the experience of the space. Indeed the experience itself is heavily mediated by the specific color that defines the space, informally referred to as “drunk tank pink,” which has a proven calming effect on those exposed to it. The profound physical, mental, and emotional effects of color are essential both to this particular installation and to Ledgerwood’s entire body of work.

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Judy Ledgerwood, "Yoni" (2017), oil and metallic oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches

Judy Ledgerwood, "Yoni" (2017), oil and metallic oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches

Hyperallergic: Judy Ledgerwood's Blunt Celebrations of Female Sexuality

Brian Butler May 2, 2018

Ledgerwood belongs to the generation of artists born between the mid- and late-1950s, who had to address the widespread view that everything had been done in painting and that there was nowhere else to go. Instead of embracing this commonplace paradigm, she stood Pattern and Decoration painting (or P& D) on its head and gave it a good shake. Along with bringing its feminist underpinnings to the foreground, Ledgerwood undid P&D’s insistence on order through repetition. The reason for undoing this emphasis is one of the underlying motivations of her work: she wants to move the ornamental from background to center stage in a very different way from her forebears. For one, she wants to make female sexuality the center of our attention.

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Fiona Connor, Closed Down Clubs, Smell, 2017, Silkscreen on foil. 

Fiona Connor, Closed Down Clubs, Smell, 2017, Silkscreen on foil. 

Fiona Connor: Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles

Brian Butler April 25, 2018

Fiona Connor, Closed Down Clubs

Mackey Garage Top

1137 South Cochran Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90019

Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2018 7-9 PM

Friday 11 May - 12 August 2018

Closed Down Clubs is a sculptural presentation of a series of freestanding doors, produced by the artist to match exactly those of a particular nightclub or small community establishment right at the moment when it ceased to exist. When a place closed, Connor would document the doors in detail and she has worked with a range of fabrication techniques in their re-creation. The artist frames each of these doors as a document for a lost space, entry into a place that was.

These physical pieces of the clubs acted as signage announcing their respective identities: Connor’s sculptures capture their details as a piece of the past, and the artist even reproduced ephemera from the events inside (such as club flyers) and eviction notices from city authorities. Most striking are the artist’s inclusion of the direct statements clubs would post on the doors advising their communities of their demise–Connor recorded and reproduced these as well.

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SUPERFLEX, One Two Three Swing! Installed at Tate Modern, 2018.

SUPERFLEX, One Two Three Swing! Installed at Tate Modern, 2018.

SUPERFLEX, One Two Three Swing! announced as opening exhibition of new Copenhagen Contemporary

Brian Butler April 18, 2018

SUPERFLEX, One Two Three Swing!

28 June - 30 December 2018

Copenhagen Contemporary

Refshalevej 173A
1432 Copenhagen K

With its collective swings, One Two Three Swing! points to the potential and energy inherent in playing and to what people can achieve collectively. Copenhagen Contemporary is proud to present this aesthetic and conceptual total installation in a new format created especially for CC on Refshaleøen. The installation was originally commissioned by Hyundai for TATE Modern.

One Two Three Swing! is a large-scale public space installation by SUPERFLEX, which directly confronts the apparent state of apathy of our society with the extraordinary potential of collectivity. The experience of hypnotic apathy is induced by a large pendulum floating over a large and comfortable carpet, which visitors can sink into while letting the world rotate at its own pace. Alternatively, the installation playfully invites visitors to combat the perpetuation of this social apathy and try to swing things around. A collectively-powered orange line twists, turns and stretches through the entire room and beyond while connecting three person swings. The liberating and playful act of swinging becomes possible only through participation and collaboration. A phrase on the base of the swings cautionary advices: “by using this three person swing, the collective power produced will set the orange line in motion and potentially change the trajectory of the planet.” The orange line emerges in each new location of the installation as the suggestion of a new piece of a global mechanism of social participation. Weaving between, within and beyond institutions and public spaces around the world, One Two Three Swing! explores the revolutionary potential of joining together collectively, even through the most innocent and quotidian actions. 

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Jessica Stockholder Installation, 2016.

Jessica Stockholder Installation, 2016.

Jessica Stockholder elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Brian Butler April 18, 2018

1301PE is proud to recognize its artist, Jessica Stockholder, as one of the newest member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class of 2018.

As part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' commitment to recognizing and celebrating excellence, 213 individuals in a wide range of disciplines and professions have been elected as members of the Class of 2018. Founded in 1780, the Academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world. The new members of the Academy were elected in 25 categories and are affiliated with 125 institutions.  

"Membership in the Academy is not only an honor, but also an opportunity and a responsibility," said Jonathan Fanton, President of the American Academy. "Members can be inspired and engaged by connecting with one another and through Academy projects dedicated to the common good. The intellect, creativity, and commitment of the 2018 Class will enrich the work of the Academy and the world in which we live." 

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1301PE will be participating at Acid-Free Art Book Marke

Brian Butler April 14, 2018

Opening: Friday, May 4, 6-9pm; Saturday & SUnday, 11-7pm

Where: Blum & Poe (2727 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles)

While the art book community in Los Angeles isn’t especially big, it is significant enough to dominate the 70 stands of the brand-new Acid-Free Art Book Market. The three-day event will take place from May 4 to 6 and is organized by various members of the Los Angeles art community. These include independent publishers New Documents and DoPe Press, stores like OOF Books, and blue-chip galleries Gagosian and Blum & Poe, which will be hosting the events.

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Philippe Parreno, (top left) Anywhen, 2017 (film still) / VR exhibition view of Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno, (top left) Anywhen, 2017 (film still) / VR exhibition view of Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno: Gropius Bau Berlin

Brian Butler April 12, 2018

Philippe Parreno, Untitled solo exhibition

Gropius Bau Berlin

Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany

25 May - 5 August, 2018

Philippe Parreno's untitled solo exhibition at the Gropius Bau Berlin has yet to exist and will perhaps never exist as it is described here.  This in not to say that it is any less real.  To be sure, this show has many different modes of existence, which, as of now, are purely virtual, sites of possibility which may or may not become actual.  To date, the exhibition exists in various modes that have changed over time including one which can be experienced through VR headsets.  Yet at this time, nothing appears fixed, the future that the exhibition takes remains open, and we can only imagine what Parreno intends to do.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag), 2017, raised at Pratt Institute.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag), 2017, raised at Pratt Institute.

Rirkrit Tiravanija participates in Creative Time's Pledge of Allegiance project

Brian Butler April 6, 2018

A flag designed by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija was raised on the Main Building flagpole on Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus on April 4 as part of Pledges of Allegiance, a public art project organized by the New York-based nonprofit Creative Time. The project invites cultural institutions to participate in raising flags created by acclaimed contemporary artists to inspire community and conversation while supporting artists at the forefront of socially engaged art-making.

Pledges of Allegiance is a serialized commission of 16 flags, each created by an acclaimed artist. Each flag points to an issue the artist is passionate about, a cause they believe is worth fighting for, and speaks to how we might move forward collectively.

The flag-raising at Pratt was attended by President Frances Bronet, School of Art Dean Gerry Snyder, Fine Arts Chair Jane South, members of the Student Government Association, and a crowd of students, faculty, staff, and passersby who assembled outside Main Building at noon to view the flag as it was raised on the building’s flagpole.

Tiravanija's flag, Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul)(White Flag), 2017, comments on the toxic effect of fear on all of us—individuals and communities alike.

South spearheaded Pratt’s participation in the project with Creative Time starting last year, and the initiative has involved Pratt community members from a number of departments around the Institute. Students had the opportunity to vote on which flag to fly, and chose the flag by Tiravanija.

Other artists participating in Pledges of Allegiance include Tania Bruguera, Alex Da Corte, Jeremy Deller, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Robert Longo, Josephine Meckseper, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Jayson Musson, Ahmet Ögüt, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Pedro Reyes, and Nari Ward.

Pledges of Allegiance officially launched in 2017 on Flag Day, June 14. Each month a new flag has been raised on a flagpole atop Creative Time’s headquarters in Manhattan and at partner sites nationwide. Tiravanija's flag will fly outside Pratt’s Main Building through April 25. The flag is also being raised simultaneously at 20 more locations across the United States.

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Jewel Box Ballerina by a young Diana Thater.

Jewel Box Ballerina by a young Diana Thater.

ProjectArt Annual Benefit at The Underground Museum

Brian Butler April 5, 2018

My Kids Could Do That: Famous Artists Put Their Childhood Drawings on view in LA

Openning Event: April 6th, 2018 at 7PM, on view through April 8th

1301PE artists, Petra Cortright, Diana Thater & Pae White are contributing works to this event.

How many times have you overheard—when standing in front of a contemporary work of art—a proud parent/disdainful viewer near you invoke the dismissive cliché: “my kid could do that?” Or maybe you’ve been guilty of thinking it yourself. We should all be so lucky to bear little geniuses that might grow up into the next Ed Ruscha, but sadly only a very small number ever reach that level. And those that do aren’t usually too quick to equate their career’s work with the output of a child.

So it’s unusual then, that a number of big-name contemporary U.S. artists—Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Lita Albuquerque, Catherine Opie, Diana Thater, Kenny Scharf, Alex Israel and Pae White among them—have decided to contribute their work to an exhibition named exactly that. But they’re not showing just any old work, they’re showing their old work—the art they made as children, lovingly preserved or perhaps rediscovered after languishing in boxes by their very own proud parents. Flying in the face of the idea that their geniuses are one in a million, these artists are putting their early scribbles on view in order to say: “Yes, your kid could do that.”

Opening April 6 at Los Angeles’ Underground Museum and on view for just three days, it’s part of a fundraising effort to raise support for ProjectArt, a nonprofit dedicated to making arts education available to children throughout the country by partnering with the public libraries for the use of space and hiring emerging artists as instructors. In spreading their mission, the organization recruited some of the most influential artists working today to talk about how art education got them to where they are today.

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Untitled (the infinite dimensions of smallness),” 2018, by Rirkrit Tiravanija

Untitled (the infinite dimensions of smallness),” 2018, by Rirkrit Tiravanija

Blouin Artinfo: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission

Brian Butler April 5, 2018

National Gallery Singapore has collaborated with internationally renowned artist Rirkrit Tiravanija to display his largest bamboo maze installation.

Named “Untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness),” the immersive installation, which stands at a towering four meters high, draws its inspiration from materials, craftwork and architecture from Asia. The maze references traditional hand-built bamboo scaffolding found across Asia, while the Japanese tea house evokes the rich culture of tea with its centuries-old ceremonies. Visitors are invited to navigate through the bamboo maze as they go in search of finding something special such as the wooden teahouse located at its center, and along the way, encounter and interact with each other. This site-specific installation consists of a large-scale bamboo maze with a Japanese tea house at its center. Drawing on regional materials, architecture and traditions, it embraces Tiravanija’s interest in cross-disciplinary and collaborative art practice. Within the space, visitors are invited to encounter each other, and participate in interactive programs including tea ceremonies by local and international tea masters.

This deceivingly simple concept continues Tiravanija’s artistic focus on participatory works that blur the line between art and its audiences, while leveraging his strength and inclination towards the gesture of hospitality. By devising and provoking human encounters in spaces that are embodied in architectural structures like the bamboo maze and teahouse, he encourages visitors to pause, make time and space to experience something new.

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The installation is on view through October 28, 2018, at National Gallery Singapore, Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery, Singapore.

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2018 Seven on Seven participants 

2018 Seven on Seven participants 

ARTNEWS: Petra Cortright Tapped for Rizhome's 2018 Seven on Seven Conference

Brian Butler April 5, 2018

The digital arts nonprofit Rhizome has revealed the list of participants for this year’s Seven on Seven conference, an annual gathering that pairs artists and technologists so that they can produce a project together. The conference’s tenth edition will be held at the New Museum in New York on May 19, 2018.

Zachary Kaplan, the executive director of Rhizome, said in a statement, “Over ten editions, [Seven on Seven] has done so much to make the argument that the fields of technology and art must learn from one another, in ways that acknowledge their points of overlap and their specificities. But at the same time, it’s an opportunity to think about the future. Critiques of technology’s effects have become increasingly mainstream; what sort of alternatives might be imagined as part of Seven on Seven over the next decade?”

Below are a list of the artist-technologist pairings at this year’s Seven on Seven.

  • Petra Cortright, artist, and Carl Tashian, engineer and entrepreneur
  • Sara Cwynar, artist, and Cierra Sherwin, director of Color Product Development, Glossier
  • Sean Raspet, artist and Nonfood cofounder, and Francis Tseng, designer and developer
  • Tabita Rezaire, artist, and Kenric McDowell, director, Google Artists and Machine Intelligence
  • Avery Singer, artist, and Matt Liston, founding member and ambassador, Gnosis
  • Mika Tajima, artist, and Yasmin Green, R&D Director, Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc.
  • Dena Yago, artist, and Yalda Mousavinia, founder, Space Cooperative

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The Writer Installation View

The Writer Installation View

Philippe Parreno: In Tune with the World, Paris France

Brian Butler April 5, 2018

Philippe Parreno: In Tune with the World

Fondation Louis Vuitton

8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi

 75116 Paris, France

11 April - 27 August, 2018

Throughout the galleries of the Frank Gehry building, "In Tune with the World" (11th April - 27th August 2018) unveils a new selection of artists from the collection, of several different mediums, bringing together modern and contemporary works, most of which have never before been exhibited in these spaces.

More than a simple hanging of works, "In Tune with the World" is intended to be an exhibition based on a specific theme. This reflects today’s questions about man’s place in the universe and the bonds that tie him to his surrounding environment and living world, highlighting the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects.

Philippe Parreno opens and closes the sequence at the pool level with two videos: the first, The Writer (2007) - at the entrance to gallery 1 - appropriates one of the first robots created in the eighteenth century, whilst Anywhen (2017) - in Gallery 3 - films an octopus responding to its environment, accompanied by a soundtrack inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

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Philippe Parreno, “June 8, 1968” (2009, film still)

Philippe Parreno, “June 8, 1968” (2009, film still)

San Francisco Chronicle: Philippe Parreno - Deftly Curated Images from singular RFK Funeral Train at SFMoMA

Brian Butler April 5, 2018

Deftly Curated Images from singular RFK Funeral Train at SFMoMA by Charles Desmarais

“The Train” launches from a noted series of documentary photographs made by Paul Fusco from the funeral train of Robert Kennedy, 50 years ago this June, as it passed along the corridor from New York to Washington, D.C. That keystone sub-exhibition is flanked by alternative interpretations of the same event.

In one direction in the galleries, a small but touching exhibition of amateur snapshots, collected by Dutch artist Rein Jelle Terpstra, presents the unvarnished reactions of bystanders. In the other, a sumptuous film by French contemporary artist Philippe Parreno re-creates the day as the kind of fiction that extends and enlivens fact.

Though none of the sub-exhibitions would be as good on their own as they are in tandem, Parreno’s film “June 8, 1968” (2009) is the strongest of the three legs. The artist rented a train and hired a troupe of actors to achieve it.

Beautifully recorded at high resolution (70mm), it is a precise re-enactment of the funeral train’s now-famous journey. Long shots of the various characters recall the Fusco originals, yet the rocking of the train, the wind in the figures’ hair or in the grasses around them, place them — situate us — somewhere different on the continuum between past and present, life and image.

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Diana Thater, Delphine, 1999, 4 video projectors, 5 DVD players, 5 DVDs, 9 video monitors, 1 synchronizer, existing architecture. Installation view: The Sympathetic Imagination, 2015-16, LACMA. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Diana Thater, Delphine, 1999, 4 video projectors, 5 DVD players, 5 DVDs, 9 video monitors, 1 synchronizer, existing architecture. Installation view: The Sympathetic Imagination, 2015-16, LACMA. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

DAMN #67: Diana Thater & Brian Butler speak about LA as an Artist's City

Brian Butler April 3, 2018

It may happily wear the mantles of city of dreams and city of angels, but Los Angeles' reputation as a city of art has been a more difficult journey.  The hurrahs of Hollywood have sometimes played a leading or supporting role, but it's not the only show in town, and over the last fifty years or so it has embraced pop and conceptual art, and is a beacon for figurative painting.  So what do the city's artistic protagonists make of recent developments and how does Trump-time feel?

" Los Angeles has the best art schools in the country. I found myself in a small new MFA program at the Art Centre in Pasadena, and my teachers were brilliant and all actively involved in the community.  They were my introduction to LA and, because of them, I never left and I have taught for the last 25 years at the Art Centre.  Frankly, I would have thought that LA was much more of an art city when it had a closer-knit community of artists who had zero interest in becoming celebrities.  Now we have this huge influx of artists from everywhere, and they come here knowing nothing about the city or the history of its small, dedicated art community." 

- Diana Thater

"Artists based in Los Angeles have for more than half a century been changing the conversation of the canon.  Historically, Los Angeles artists had to show inEurope to gain a reputation, as New York (the gatekeeper) was not interested in art from the West Coast.  In recent years you see a shift in the arts across the board from creative to financial. The market (meaning the one reported and celebrated in the media) is now global in its aesthetics.  So how does that affect Los Angeles and its evolution"? 

- Brian Butler

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Fiona Connor Lecture, Los Angeles Public Library

Brian Butler March 30, 2018

Fiona Connor: Photographer's Eye: Placeholder for a Grand Central Market Archive

Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, meeting room A

630 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 12:15 p.m.

Fiona Connor set up a large format Toyo View camera in the middle of Grand Central Market, a bustling culinary bazaar in downtown Los Angeles whose rapid makeover in recent years has been the source of cheerleading as well as anger over the changing nature of the city’s urban core. Opened in the late 1800s, Grand Central was long seen as a celebration of the city’s melting-pot character. Immigrants from Michoacan served up carnitas near stands that hawked cheap bowls of Hong Kong-style wonton soup. It was a place for everybody, and anybody, or so goes the narrative of those opposed to its recent evolution. 

As city leaders have pushed for a downtown L.A. “renaissance,” with historic buildings transformed into stylish lofts and skid row’s homeless population pushed farther and farther to the margins, Grand Central has transformed, too. In just a few years, dozens of food stalls were pushed out as new ones serving up oysters and craft beer to the neighborhood’s growing class of young professionals moved in. 

Over the course of 12 months, Connor documented this change in a work titled "Placeholder for a Grand Central Market Archive." Once a month, she returned to the exact same spot at lunchtime and took a single photograph. The result is an edition of 12 sets of 8x10 prints that are a telling record of the market’s evolution. From one photo to the next, paint-cracked pillars change suddenly from black to white. A construction wall goes up. When it comes down, a brand new stall has been erected, an upscale bar opened by a pair of Hollywood restauranteurs that offers a collection of upscale wines as well as chicharones, fried pork rinds are a nod to the market’s not-so-distant past. 

Connor's prints will become part of the photo collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, joining other historical images of Grand Central Market for the public to use. The edition is designed so it can be seamlessly added to the collection, which is housed at Central Library downtown.

For her talk she will discuss this project and other examples where she has worked with existing archives.

Fiona Connor is a New Zealander born in 1981, currently living and practicing her art in Los Angeles. She received a degree in Fine Arts and History from the University of Auckland, and she earned her Masters in Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts. Connor’s work uses strategies of repetition to produce objects that interrogate their own form by engaging different histories embedded within our built environment. For her, fabrication is a form of research. Her work was recognized in New Zealand when she was shortlisted in 2010 as one of four finalists for the bi-annual Walter's Prize for contemporary art. Her installations are held by the Auckland City Art Gallery, The Dowse Gallery, the Te Papa in Wellington, the Christchurch Art Gallery, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. During the past eight years  since being resident in Los Angeles Connor has devoted her energies both locally and  across a global spread with exhibitions in New York, Barcelona, Basel, Istanbul, Sydney and Auckland. Connor's artistic career has displayed a consistent attraction to working in a collaborative way and fluidly between curating, facilitating and object making. An example being the Newspaper Reading Club founded in 2011, and the conversion of her own Los Angeles apartment over 12 months into a gallery titled Laurel Doody in 2016.

Sponsored by Photo Friends. Presented by the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

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mightyhighOnlight, 2018, bronze, 90 x 60 x 25 cm. Ed. 5 + 2 AP, Image courtesy of VAN HORN, Dusseldorf

mightyhighOnlight, 2018, bronze, 90 x 60 x 25 cm. Ed. 5 + 2 AP, Image courtesy of VAN HORN, Dusseldorf

Jan Albers: Fox/Jensen, Sydney, Australia

Brian Butler March 30, 2018

Jan Albers

Fox/Jensen 

CNR Hampden Street & Cecil Lane
23 A Roylston Street

Paddington
NSW 2021
Australia

Opens Thursday, 5 April, 6 PM

Jan Albers studied painting at the famous Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. Early on he sensed that working within the established protocols of paint and canvas felt too restraining.  He has gone on to produce a major body of work that shuns the flatness of the picture plane replacing it with a divergent mix of high and low art materials that are bolshy and strident, elegant and considered, yet seldom demure.

As much as Albers wished as a student to eschew convention, his work touches lightly on various 20th century moments. One feels echoes of Judd and Chamberlain in their robust materiality and determined “object” status - the visceral impact of Fontana’s puncturing of the picture plane, in his “chain-saw” lacerations. But there are also reverberations in form and composition that recall his namesake Anni Albers’ refined geometries, or Frank Stella’s shaped canvases.

As cognizant as he clearly is of history, Albers feels determined to extend his own artistic vocabulary so that it embraces a range of connections to architecture, even the environment, complete with its blend of allure and toxicity.

As Stephen Berg has described…“the entire picture is actually a permanent construction site alternating between destruction and repair.” This altercation between making and unmaking, harmony and disharmony runs through all of Albers work. One gets the sense that he views most material as potentially “uncooperative” and unruly – something to be tamed or at the very least bridled.

In all of his works you are compelled to look into them rather than at them from a respectful distance – the enticement and persuasion of the poisonous perhaps. Their complex topography, their nooks and crannies, their structural depth and intricacy suggest an entirely different reading of space that isn’t pictorial nor is it truly sculptural. Whatever the case, Albers is certainly up-dating the bas-relief and its traditional viewpoint.

The gallery is thrilled to present a range of major works by Jan Albers, including the large and magnificent bronze, mightyhighOnlight and stunning new ceramic works alongside further examples of his diverse and innovative practice.
It is also particularly pleasing, that during this years Art Basel Hong Kong, four large scale works were placed in major collections in Taipei and in a private museum collection in Shanghai. The response to his work at Art Basel Hong Kong has been overwhelming. We are delighted to say that Jan will also be present for the opening in Sydney.

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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Invites You to Celebrate Jessica Stockholder

Brian Butler March 30, 2018

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

258 Main Street

Ridgefield, CT 06877

Honoring Jessica Stockholder

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Jessica Stockholder’s career in the visual arts now spans more than thirty years, including over seventy solo exhibitions worldwide and representation in numerous major public and private collections. Her work, which has had a significant impact on contemporary sculptural practice, is categorized by a deep love of color and a focused engagement with the intersection of pictorial space and the physicality of the material world. Stockholder first exhibited at The Aldrich in 1993, and in 2011 she presented Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood, a major solo exhibition based on the wood from a 130-year-old ash tree that had been removed from the Museum’s Sculpture Garden. Stockholder is also known for her writing on art and her commitment to teaching, which includes her appointment in 2012 as Chair of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago.

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Paul Winstanley Book Release

Brian Butler March 30, 2018

Paul Winstanley: 59 Paintings

In which the Artist Considers the Process of Thinking about and Making Work

British artist Paul Winstanley (born 1954) has established an international reputation for his atmospheric photorealistic paintings of nondescript places and anonymous figures. Here he takes 59 of his own works as a starting point to discuss what it means to make paintings.

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Lynne Tillman by Craig Mod; Kerry Tribe by Panic Studio

Lynne Tillman by Craig Mod; Kerry Tribe by Panic Studio

Kerry Tribe: The Un-Private Collection: Lynne Tillman & Kerry Tribe on Joseph Beuys

Brian Butler March 29, 2018

The Un-Private Collection

Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.

Oculus Hall at The Broad

221 S. Grand Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Organized by The Broad and X-TRA, this special three-part iteration of The Un-Private Collection addresses the legacy of German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys in relation to contemporary art practice. Each program highlights a theme central to Beuys and invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and ideas through that lens.

New York writer Lynne Tillman and Los Angeles visual artist Kerry Tribe will speak on lies and myth. Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature. In their work, Tillman and Tribe both investigate the construction of narrative and knowledge. This conversation will explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception. Moderated by Shana Lutker, a Los Angeles artist and co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.

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