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KAVI GUPTA
Chicago |
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Chris
Johanson
Backwards Toward
Forwards
Sep 10 - Oct
16, 2010
STATEMENT FOR
BACKWARDS TOWARD FORWARDS
"The exhibit is
about restorative energy and healing through art.
At the center
of the exhibit is a sculpture consisting of pieces of painted
black wood.
They are pieces
of life, fractures of energy and space.
Connected to
the center sculpture are four groupings of free standing and
connected paintings.
Each grouping
has a grouping of four paintings.
Each group has
a painting of a single house at night, a backwards abstract
painting created backwards from the way I previously created
wood paintings made from scraps of found wood, a painting of a
figure that has just crossed over a bridge, and then a dyptic
painting of a sun with a painting of the ocean underneath.
All four
groupings are versions of the same four paintings.
They are
stories of four life paths, Lenses of four ways of living.
Similar but
unique is what we see.
All the wood
was found.
The paintings
were created over the last 1.5 years.
I will be at
the opening if you have any questions about it."
~ Chris
Johanson
PROJECT
ROOM
The
Color of Black & White
Curated
by Chris Johanson
Julia
Asherman
Gary
Groves
Dave
Schubert
Masao
Yamamoto
This exhibition
celebrates the beauty of and between black and white.
Sometimes when the palette is reduced a vibrant emotional
spectrum emerges. A reductive, simpler lens creates a place
where a quiet poetry about life is shared. The black and white
work of these four artists shares that ability to create that
energy.
The photography
of Masao Yamamoto shares the vibrant world of nature. It
resonates the preciousness of the living landscape.
The prints of
Julia Asherman reflect the experience of a connected harmony
with nature. Each piece acts as an account of her life
experiences from travels, living on her farm and seeking a
harmonious connection with the environment that she lives in.
The calm, immediate photography of Dave Schubert looks at city
life. They are vignettes of the world he co-inhabits and
carefully quietly photographs.
Gary Groves'
woodblock prints of the Pacific Northwest coast evoke a sense
that he has spent a lifetime pondering the land formations
that are his subject matter. All of the work of these artists
individually and when presented collectively create a powerful
meditative vibration about life. Distinct in their art making,
they share a collective connectedness about the rhythms of our
world.
~ Chris
Johanson
Image:
Chris
Johanson
Installation View of Backwards Toward
Forwards, 2010
Kavi Gupta
CHICAGO
Kavi
Gupta CHICAGO
835 West Washington
Chicago, IL
60607
T: +1 312.432.0708
Tuesday-Friday,
10-6
Saturday, 11-5
E info @ kavigupta.com
Kavi
Gupta BERLIN
Kluckstraße 31
10785 Berlin
Germany
T: +49 30 2180 7748
Tuesday - Saturday 12-6
E berlin @ kavigupta.com
Kavi Gupta CHICAGO |
BERLIN
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CGP
London |
Throwing Shapes
Clare Goodwin, Alasdair Duncan, Vanessa Jackson,
Kilian Rüthemann.
3 October - 7 November 2010
Thursday - Sunday from 12 - 5pm.
Preview at Cafe Gallery and Coleman Project Space:
Sunday, 3 October from 2 - 5pm.
Coleman Project Space
presents a two-venue initiative curated by Rebecca Geldard
with Vanessa Jackson, Clare Goodwin, Alasdair Duncan and
Kilian Rüthemann.
Throwing Shapes is a group
exhibition on the itinerant nature of abstract painting's core
motifs. The conversational starting point for this colourful
dialogue between venues, and works in various media, is a
large-scale wall-painting commission by Vanessa
Jackson at CGP London's Cafe Gallery.
While
the title elicits the notion of sharply defined forms flung,
or Modernist-indebted visual strategies, it also references
dance and music. 'Throwing shapes', like the term 'abstract'
for an art context, has become a generic expression. It is now
synonymous with human movement to music/sounds of all kinds
but was initially used to describe the repetitive physical
actions associated with electronic dance music: a simple sign
language for those under its influence.
This sense of
reduction and recycling of forms and trends - given the recent
nu-rave revival traceable through music, art and fashion, for
example - is key to the exhibition remit. Throwing Shapes does
not attempt to survey the new, however, or plot fixable paths
between the past and present, rather identify some curious
conceptual territories emerging from artists' re-negotiation
of these basic forms; locate points at which specific
aesthetic languages shift, mutate or break
down.
Alasdair Duncan's signs for
the future' pitch the viewer between the language of
propaganda, painting and the perfunctory signage of everyday
life. The London-based artist's colour-rich, optimistic
motifs, borrowed equally from the Bauhaus as the Highway Code,
will appear here in two site-specific vinyl and sculptural
works at Coleman Project Space.
Zürich-based Clare
Goodwin also mines the past in a strangely
positive way, her human-titled paintings conveying both the
gritty reality of an era and sense of nostalgia one can have
for a time that is not their own. Seventies design graphics
and Op-art strategies appear rudely cropped into seductively
hard-edged, conceptually adulterous compositional
unions.
It makes perfect sense that Vanessa
Jackson's ritual play on canvas with geometric
systems should find its way onto public surfaces given her
interest in the democracy of mathematical approaches to art.
Where Jackson's ambitious three-floor mural for Sadler's Wells
in 2008 provided a lyrical framework for the performative
dimension of the site, here the big white box of CGP London
will become test-cell for the optical and kinetic
possibilities of forms placed "arm-in-arm, hip-to-hip" in
space.
Swiss artist Kilian
Rüthemann is known for his minimal, mostly
temporary sculptural alterations to architectural spaces.
For this, Rüthemann's first London exhibition, the Basel-based
artist will show a film in Coleman Project Space's acclaimed
Shed Space. Here, the virtual realm of the computer program
provides the contextual fabric for his study of line and form
as dictated by the flight paths of birds at
sunset.
Image:
Vanessa Jackson
Throwing Shapes
Detail, 2010
Courtesy of the artist and Cafe
Gallery
CGP London
Cafe Gallery
Centre
of Southwark Park
London SE16 2UA.
Travel to Canada
Water on the Jubilee and Overground (Dalston to Croydon)
Lines.
T +44 (0)20 7237 1230
Coleman Project Space / Cafe Gallery: are 7 minutes walk
away from each other.
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JERWOOD
SPACE, London |
Jerwood Drawing Prize 201029
September - 7 November 2010
Jerwood Visual Arts is
delighted to announce that Virginia Verran
has been named First Prize Winner and awarded
£6,000 for her drawing Bolus-Space
(signal) in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010. Her
work, along with that of the 70 short-listed artists will be
shown at Jerwood Space, London SE1 from 29 September - 7
November 2010, and will then tour.
The Jerwood
Drawing Prize is the country's leading award in
drawing, and is the largest and longest running annual open
exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. Established in 1996
as the annual Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition it was
renamed the Jerwood Drawing Prize when the Jerwood Charitable
Foundation became the principal supporter in 2001.
Just
under 3,000 entries were submitted this year for consideration
by the distinguished panel of selectors Charles Darwent, Art
Critic, Independent on Sunday; Jenni Lomax, Director of the
Camden Arts Centre; and Emma Talbot, artist. The shortlist
includes established artists as well as relative newcomers and
students fresh from art school.Jerwood Visual Arts will host a
series of Monday evening events to accompany the exhibition
starting at 6pm on 4th, 11th, 18th October
2010. Events are free but must be booked
in advance. Jerwood Space is also participating in
the 2010 Big Draw and will host events on 22nd and 23rd
October.
For more information contact Parker
Harris, or check the Jerwood Visual Arts
website: Jerwood Visual
ArtsParker Harris T 01372
462190 E jdp @ parkerharris.co.uk The Jerwood
Drawing Prize is part of Jerwood Visual Arts
Image:
Virginia
Verran
Bolus-Space (signal)
Pens on
canvas
76 x 62 cm
2010
Jerwood Drawing Prize
exhibitor
Jerwood Space
171 Union
Street
London SE1 OLN
T + 44 (0) 20 7654
0171
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SAMSØN,
Boston |
Jeffrey Gibson
& Jackie Saccoccio
The
Shades
September 10th - October 9th
Samsøn is pleased to start
the season with a two-person painting exhibition: The
Shades by Jackie Saccoccio &
Jeffrey Gibson. This is the 1st time they're
exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual
language as muse and expands on it using subjective and
improvisational strategies countered by more objective and
decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation,
accessing The Shades. The title lightly refers to Ovid's Rome
where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as
shades of the dead, their physical description being immense
and shapeless. Saccoccio and Gibson take this as a
metaphorical starting point to consider contemporary
abstraction. The works traverse the real and are fixed on the
viewing moment. The paintings are real and of this world. Both
artists take what is happening within the paintings to address
the space, alter the space, re-invent a space. Ab-Ex, Pattern
& Decoration, Neo Geo and Op mix with Dadaist and
Conceptual practises.
Each artist approaches the
shades from opposite sides of the spectrum. Gibson arrives
through the conceptual and mechanical manipulation of his
personal mark-making that in and of itself question
compilations of identity and culture. He wallpapers a portion
of the gallery in monochromatic posters of exact reproductions
of 10 modest size paintings on linen, all the same size and
one woven version digitally produced (via Photoshop) installed
atop the posters. Saccoccio explores the absence of the mark
as she paints improvisational images of overlays that appear
in her paintings (also installed atop). The Gibson wallpaper
and Saccoccio wall painting will greet, meet, introduce,
collide and coexist.
Jeffrey Gibson
(b. Choctaw/Cherokee, 1972) was recently the Golden Fellow at
the Headlands Center for the Arts. His work will be included
in Collision at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design
Museum (Providence, RI), Vantage Point at the National Museum
of The American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Washington
DC) and Changing Hands 3 at the Museum of Art and Design (NY,
NYC). He received a Creative Capital Visual Arts Grant in 2005
and The Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship in
2009.
Jackie Saccoccio (b. Providence,
RI, 1963) lives and works in CT and NY. She has an M.F.A. from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited
her large-scale abstract paintings and wall drawings
throughout the USA & Europe. Earlier this year she had a
solo exhibition at Eleven Rivington (NY, NY) and will be guest
curator and a participant in the immersive collaborative
exhibition, Collision, at the RISD Museum of Art (Providence,
RI) later this Fall. Saccoccio was awarded the Rome Prize in
Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome in 2005.
Image:
Jeffrey Gibson &
Jackie Saccoccio
The
Shades
Installation view, Samsøn, Boston,
2010
Samsøn
450 Harrison Ave. /
29 Thayer St.
Boston, MA 02118
T +1 617 357 7177
Wed
- Sat 12 to 5 & by appointment
Samsøn
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Boston
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CENTRAL
SPACE, London |
And In
Berlin
Recent works by Barbara
Nicholls
24th September - 17th October
2010
Barbara Nicholls reviewing
the topography of historical and current maps of the city
could discern the territorial shifts formed by the layers of
historical events.
Entering Berlin in 2009 Nicholls was
armed with her established themes of research and creative
practice; questions of surface, depth, chance, order, the
found, the fabricated, systems of mapping, both archaeological
and geographical.
Further metaphorical maps were
created using a variety of sources; architectural form and
detail, blocks of granite pavement, indecipherable graffiti,
fragments of The Wall covered in chewing gum, and evidence of
historical boundaries.
The approach to making these
works on wood and paper is in part that of the archaeologist
and part that of the cartographer, mapping out and sifting
through the detritus of evidence. There is a sense of
reference, retrieval and meaning, which combine connections
made to navigate, create and construct new forms and
labyrinthine structures.
Born in Cheshire and lives
in London Nicholls graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1986,
the University of East London in 1998 with an Masters in Fine
Art , and a Doctorate in Fine Art in 2006.
She has exhibited Nationally and Internationally including
The Trench Imperial War Museum London,
Borderlines ArToll Germany, Borders Codes
and Crossings APT Gallery London and Milchhof
Berlin, Emerge AVA London, London in Six
Easy Steps ICA, Characters in Fire, The
Gate and the Electric Cinema, British Council residency and
touring exhibition, Brazil.
These works have been
created from residencies in Berlin and Bedburg- Hau Germany,
as part of an Arts Council
Award.
Image:
Barbara
Nicholls
Twister 2010
Gesso,
watercolour on wood 56 x 76 cm
Courtesy of the
artist
Central Space
23 -
29 Faroe Road
London W14 OEL
T +44 (0)20 8960
5015
Nearest tube: Shepherds Bush, Olympia,
Hammersmith
Thursday - Sunday 12.00pm - 6.00pm
Read On... Barbara
Nicholls,
London
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