Exhibitions Grant Cycle FOCA Fellowships

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Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007 2007-2008
The Studio Museum in Harlem November 14 - March 9		Thelma Golden Kori Newkirk (b. 1970) is a celebrated multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice is based on transforming modest materials into loaded signifiers that question both cultural and aesthetic notions of beauty. Newkirk elegantly blends medium and message-using photographs, wax, hair pomade, beads and neon lights-to forge a new paradigm in art practice. This survey exhibition presents work produced since Newkirk received his MFA from the University of California at Irvine, includes a site-specific project and illustrates how interrelated strands of his practice have converged and developed over time.

THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles 2005
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California February 6 - June 5		James Elaine, Aimee Chang, and Christopher Miles Christopher Miles Including work by 20 Los-Angeles-based artists, THING uncovers the most innovative contemporary sculpture from the up-and-coming generation. Probing the formal and conceptual trajectories of sculpture in Los Angeles, THING includes a broad selection of works and addresses a wide range of sculptural practices, attempting to make sense of new materials, forms, methods, and concerns of this promising generation of emerging Angeleno artists. THING offers viewers a chance to examine how the vital and provocative sculpture being produced by L.A.’s younger set extends local traditions and lineages, and also taps into and shapes broader cultural streams. As Los Angeles has become a defining force in international contemporary art, the exhibition, though focusing on Los Angeles, provides a compelling view into the state of sculpture today. Artists included in the exhibition are: Lauren Bon, Jedediah Caesar, Kate Costello, Krysten Cunningham, Hannah Greely, Taft Green, Matt Johnson, Aragna Ker, Olga Koumoundouros, Renee Lotenero, Nathan Mabry, Rodney McMillian, Chuck Moffit, Kristen Morgin, Joel Morrison, Micahel O’Malley, Kaz Oshiro, Andy Ouchi, Lara Schnitiger, Mindy Shapero

Topographies 2004
McBean Galleries San Francisco Art Institute March 19 - May 8 Traveled to the Pasadena Museum of California Art		Karen Moss Karen Moss, Jeannene Przyblyski, Steve Dietz, and Noah Snyder Topographies features representations that reference terrains ranging from the rural to the aural to the wholly imaginary. Sharing an interest in strategies of mapping, marking, and delineating specific sites, the artists of Topographies employ a wide range of artistic forms to highly individualized ends, including photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, public intervention, video, and site specific work. The exhibition includes work by John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Ed Ruscha, Charbel Ackermann, Jessica Bronson, Bull.Miletic, Ingrid Calame, Simon Evans, David Hinman, Charles La Belle, Young Kim, Sabina Ott, Rigo 23, Lordy Rodriguez, John Roloff, Adam Ross, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets (led by SFAI faculty Jeannene Przyblyski), Susan Silton, Alex Slade, Shirley Tse, Tam Van Tran, and Anna Von Mertens.

George Stone: Probabilities - A Midcareer Survey 2003
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California September 9 - November 16		Carole Ann Klonarides Norman M. Klein, Carole Ann Klonairdes, Peter Lunenfeld, Ralph Rugoff and Judith Vida Spence The exhibition featured eight installations re-created by Stone: PACER (1979); CIRCLE OF DECEIT (The Last Game) and THE MEDIUM (1983-1984); FAULT LINE (1986-88); SPIRIT FINDER (1987); IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1988); DOUBLECROSS (1990); MEN AND WOMEN (1991); UNKNOWN, UNWANTED, UNCONSCIOUS, UNTITLED (1993); and a new work PAPARAZZI GARDEN (2002-03), that gives voice to Stone’s concern with our lack of privacy within a surveillance-laden technological environment.

Whiteness, A Wayward Construction 2003
Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, California March 23 - June 6		Tyler Stallings Ken Gonzales-Day, Amelia Jones and David R. Roediger Whiteness is a group exhibition of 29 artists working in various media who explore representations of whiteness and the image of the white in the public imagination. The underlying assumption in the exhibit is that everyone in the United States is constructed in the political imagination as a racial subject. Following this notion, the exhibit then considers whiteness in order to make visible what often seems invisible when cast as the norm. In order to dissuade this tendency towards disembodiment and invisibility, this exhibit attempts to locate and embody whiteness in a particular experience of being white. The exhibit is subdivided into three categories which overlap on one another, and are meant to suggest a movement from unawareness to recognition to immersion/emersion: White Out explores the idea of white people not seeing themselves, Mirror, Mirror… explores the concept of whites seeing themselves and how others see them, and The Graying of Whiteness presents artists who are mixing up the issues and present a “third way” of looking. Artists: Kavin Buck, James Casebere, Emilio Cueto, Kim Dingle, Peter Edlund, John Feodorov, Kelsey Fernkopf, Mark Steven Greenfield, Joseph Havel, Mike Kelley, Byron Kim, Clifford Lecuyer, Richard A. Lou, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Myrella Moses, Tim Oberst, Adrian Piper, Ernesto Pujol, Erika Rothenberg, Kammy Roulner, Lezley Saar, Robert J. Sanchez, Andres Serrano, Richard Shelton, Kyungmi Shin, Gary Simmons, Travis Somerville, Kara Walker and Millie Wilson

On Wanting to Grow Horns: The Little Theatre of Tom Knechtel 2002-2003
Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California November 9 - February 15 Traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina; The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington		Anne Ayres Anne Ayres, Ron Platt, Benjamin Weissman, poems by Amy Gerstler and Richard Howard The exhibition On Wanting to Grow Horns: the Little Theater of Tom Knechtel is a mid-career retrospective of one of Los Angeles’ most original voices in painting and drawing. Comprised of twenty-five oil paintings and approximately seventy works on paper representing the artist’s work from 1976 to 2001, On Wanting to Grow Horns: the Little Theater of Tom Knechtel presents a rare opportunity to trace the evolution and exploration of Knechtel’s wide range of media and subject matter.

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