Origins

"The artists in Origins approach the use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil, as mediums that have arrived in the present day with a tremendous amount of tradition attached to them. Handcrafted qualities and personal sensibilities are emphasized as well as work that addresses the value and beauty of our diverse ecology and its fragility. There is a reverential simplicity to the use of some materials as with artists such as Andre, Heizer, Long, Laib, and Schneider, where there is little or no embellishment of stone, wood etc. There is also a focus on the human figure as a locus of expressive possibilities: Bhabha, Bourgeois, Landau, Mendieta, Silver, Smith and others. Whether metaphorically presented or disfigured, shrouded, or animated, the body is offered as a spiritual totem, a monument to corporeal identity."

HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer - Textportraits

"The art project “Text Portrait” deals with the multiliberalen handling of personal data. The personal data (photos, biographies, text blocks, etc.) were partially automated found and were exposed at the time for everyone!
The art project combines text portrait photos and text fragments into a so-called TEXTPORTRAIT."

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer - Textportraits

Andy Warhol: TEXT PORTRAIT- Ralph Ueltzhoeffer 2009

2008 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition

2008 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition

April 12 – April 26, 2008

Following three years of research and development, this exhibition offered many students their first opportunity to show their work in a museum context and challenge the public with new, fresh ideas. Featured were artists Elia Arce, Chuy Benitez, Jeanne Cassanova, David Damico, Jane Eifler, Woody Golden, Sarah Hannah, Luisa Hernández, Iskra Ivanova, Ann Marie Nafziger, Kadriye Ozpolat, and Kelli Vance.

In both poetic and straightforward ways, this year’s graduates from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Houston engage deeply with the issues that concern them—self-definition, social justice and responsibility, and an ambivalence toward the commercialism that surrounds us. A defining moment of their time here at the university happened during their first semester when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The artwork of these twelve graduates offers us their reflections on watershed moments such as Katrina and other significant experiences of the world around them, from the humble to the extraordinary.

Blaffer Gallery :: Upcoming Exhibtions :: 2008 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition - Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Houston

To make a rainbow

“To make a rainbow it takes both rain and sunshine.”

비 온 뒤 화창하게 갠 하늘에서 볼 수 있는 무지개는 레인과 선샤인이라는 두가지 요소가 절묘하게 어우러졌을 때 생기는 드문 자연 현상이다. 무지개는 그 자체의 희소성과 하늘이라는 캔버스에 걸린 아름다운 7가지 색상을 통하여 보는 이들로 하여금 즐거움과 희열을 느끼게 한다. 씨킴은 자신의 작업을 설명할 때 이 말을 자주 인용하곤 한다. 그에게 있어서 좋은 예술 작품이란 무지개와 같은 것이다. 그가 지향하는 예술을 완성하기 위해서는 레인과 선샤인과 같은 요소가 필요하다는 것을 일찍이 이해한 씨킴의 식견은 절묘하다. 수많은 예술가들이 부단한 자기 반성과 노력에 의해서 자신만의 작품을 완성하지만, 모든 작품들이 인정을 받고 많은 관객들에게 소개되어 감동을 주는 것은 아니다. 작가와 작품으로 대변되는 레인이 세상이라는 선샤인을 만났을 때 비로서 진정한 예술 작품으로 승화될 수 있음에 대한 통찰이다.

ARARIO GALLERY

N'importe quoi

N’importe quoi fait suite à l'exposition The Freak Show présentée au Musée en 2007 et reprend un dispositif d’exposition préexistant, cette fois-ci la présentation des collections de specimens dans les musées d’histoire naturelle : galeries zoologiques, galeries d’anatomie comparée, galeries paléontologiques... Comme pour The Freak Show, cette appropriation d’un système d’exposition permet de soulever un certain nombre de questions importantes quant à l’art, son histoire, sa présentation et sa représentation. Dans l’espace du musée, l’art est exposé comme un art « naturalisé ». D’où cette question : l’espace du musée est-il le milieu naturel de l’art ? Y a-t-il un art à l’état sauvage ? Y a-t-il un « dessein intelligent » à l’oeuvre dans son évolution, ou bien est-il une succession de mutations accidentelles ? Et, puisqu’il est ici présenté comme une galerie de l’évolution, à quel principe de sélection (culturelle, et non plus naturelle) obéit-il ? L’art manifesterait-il, à l’inverse du schéma évolutif normal, la revanche de l’inadaptation, par la survie des plus inaptes (à se conformer à la règle historique ou aux conventions sociales) ?

N'importe quoi - Musée d'Art Contemporain

N’importe quoi - neo2.es

Charles LONG

Charles LONG

Tanya Bonakdar is pleased to announce a new body of work from the sculptor Charles Long, in his eighth solo show with the gallery. A distinct break from the most recent work based on bird excrement and the Los Angeles River, Long’s new sculptures are spare, colorful, non-referential structures, assuredly ungrounded, offering a balance of imbalances. In contrast to the previous work addressing resilience and decay, this body of work forges an entirely new emotional and spiritual territory, which involves both a paring down to essentials and an openness to unmediated experience.

tanya bonakdar gallery ::

Choose your own adventure

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE | LAURA BALL

January 9 - February 14, 2009

Laura Ball's work has always addressed real world battles and the ludic activities of play and competition. The characters in Ball's watercolors and oil paintings are represented by her sisters, her mother and herself often engaged in play-fighting, struggling against a torrent of water, or battling swords.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE explores fantastical characters of our minds, examining the journeys and struggles we undertake both as mythological characters and as ourselves. For this exhibition, the heroic journey of world myths and the events of the subconscious provide sources for conflict and struggle that move from the world into the depths of the psyche "...into unsuspected Aladdin caves ... where not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives." (Joseph Campbell)

Laura Ball, Procession, Oil on canvas, 36" x 36" - 2008

Pivotal moments from the heroines' journeys inspire the paintings and watercolors, which can in turn be read as universal icons that map progress along life's path.

Swarm Gallery

Super System

Super System is an exhibition of new sculptures by Matt Johnson, in which is contained a large Puzzleman, a sophisticated stash-box, a walnut within many walnuts, an ancient amber wave with rider, a chair that is also a reclining woman, and an endless Escher-like staircase seemingly chewed into an apple. Contrary to many of his previous works, these are not cast from precious metals but rather carved and constructed from various kinds of wood. Wood is an elemental thing, a living thing, a material that breathes, has grown, and been cultivated.
Johnson finds the power in quotidian forms, and melds them with a ceremonial gravity.
He unmasks the incisive playfulness of the so-called primitive and the urgent usefulness of Modern absurdity. He manages to take things we all know and reroute them. You sense that what you’ve known is no longer useful, and so you end up leaning on the object, waiting for it to reveal itself, or its symbol. Found forms and concealed powers—how does one take the Surrealist strategy of subliminal suggestiveness and flip it yet again? Perhaps by starting over, by retracing ones steps, and elegantly presenting the answer as another riddle, a puzzle, and a rhyme.

Taxter & Spengemann

NEXT 2009

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations--galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

NEXT 2009 :: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art

EvoStar 2009

Welcome to EvoStar 2009 - Welcome to EvoStar 2009: "The EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences and the workshops collectively entitled EvoWorkshops compose EVO*: Europe's premier co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing.

Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EVO* topics include recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimisation, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning and data mining techniques in the biosciences, in numerical optimisation, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal processing, in hardware optimisation and in a wide range of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other real-world problems."

The Minimalist Site

The Minimalist Site
April 23 - June 19, 2009

Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present "The Minimalist Site," a group exhibition of Minimalist sculpture and painting that explores the relationship between the work of art and its supporting architecture. This issue was central to the Minimalists' formal reductions and elimination of narrative. By paring down internal dynamics, their work acquired a reflexivity, in which art acknowledged or responded to its immediate environment. For these artists, the surrounding architecture took on new importance. No longer anonymous supports, the wall and floor became active surfaces that could be incorporated into the work. The ramifications of this insight continue to be felt today, as site specific and installation strategies have become essential components of contemporary artistic practices.

The centerpiece of this exhibition is a rare and monumental Sol LeWitt wall relief from 1977. This structure transforms the wall into a platform for a pioneering form of modular sculpture. Using an open square as a standardized unit, LeWitt translates a conceptual statement into sculptural form. In raking light, this work opens onto the wall to create an intricate interplay of geometry and shadow.

Other works in the show include a Frame/Ellipse painting by Robert Mangold, in which a shaped canvas becomes an architectural framing device. A Carl Andre copper sculpture dispenses with the pedestal and lies directly on the floor, expanding horizontally across the exhibition space. Dan Flavin's corner-mounted fluorescent tubes paint the walls with pure, luminous hue. A plank by John McCracken leans casually against the wall, creating an external geometry of negative space.

Together, these works open a window onto the full richness of the Minimalist generation. Rather than representing an aesthetic of puritanical austerity, these artists were committed to rethinking the limits of traditional mediums and expanding the parameters of modern art.

Barbara Mathes Gallery

democratic camera

william eggleston. democratic camera
photography & video 1961–2008
20 feb 09 > 17 may 09

‘I had this notion of what i called a democratic way of looking around: that nothing was more important or less important.’ William Eggleston

The american artist William Eggleston (*1939, memphis, usa) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. this comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day.

haus der kunst