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StoneFace

Curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Stacy Bengtson Fertig
September 6 – November 9, 2007

Featuring
John Baldessari
Dan Graham
Jesse Aron Green
Lee Lozano
Rachel Mason
Richard Prince
Mark Roeder
Maya Schindler

About the Artists

John Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, CA) completed his studies at San Diego State College in 1957 and has since established himself as one of the most influential artists of his generation and perhaps the foremost West Coast conceptual artist. He is particularly formative due to the pioneering use of humor and language in his work. Recent retrospective exhibition venues include Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna, Austria; the Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; and the Musée d’ Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France. His works are represented in many permanent collections including the Tate Modern, London, England; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Holland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Baldessari is the recipient of the Americans for the Arts Lifetime achievement award; the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellowship; the College Art Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award; the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

Dan Graham (b.1942, Urbana, IL) has been a leading video and conceptual artist and writer since the mid-60s, producing a formative body of art and theory that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video and television are among the focuses of his provocative investigations, which are articulated in essays, performances, installations, videotapes and architectural/sculptural designs. In addition to his groundbreaking work in video, Graham has long published many highly influential critical texts investigating the cultural ideology behind such contemporary social phenomena as punk music, suburbia and public architecture. His work is represented in the collections of numerous major institutions in the United States and Europe, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and The Tate Gallery, London. He has had many retrospective exhibitions, including at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and soon at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009, to subsequently travel nationally. Graham has been represented internationally in group exhibitions at Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; Skulptur Projekte Munster, Germany; Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; P.S. 1, New York; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other festivals and institutions. He lives and works in New York.

Jesse Aron Green (b. 1979, Boston, MA) received his AB in the Department of Visual Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and is completing his MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio in the Department of Art at UCLA. He recently curated the New Wight Biennial, an international survey of work made by graduate students, and his videos, theatrical productions and art works have been shown nationally. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Lee Lozano (b.1930, Newark, NJ - d.1999, Dallas, TX) got her BA from the University of Chicago and her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960. She established herself at the heart of the downtown New York art scene in the 60s as a painter of both sexually irreverent figurative works and monumental geometric non-figurative canvases which she exhibited at the Green Gallery, Bianchini Gallery, Galerie Ricke, Corcoran Gallery, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her painting practice led to the pursuit of a conceptually-driven text-based and performative practice replete with both dry, biting humor and an increasing distaste for her milieu, a reaction culminating in her "Dropout Piece" in which she left New York around 1972, disappearing from the art world. Since her dropout, her work has recently appeared in group shows internationally and solo exhibitions of note including at the Wadsworth Atheneum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Kunsthalle Basel, and Van Abbemuseum.

Rachel Mason (b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA) received her BA from UCLA in 2001 and MFA from Yale University in sculpture in 2004. She regularly exhibits in solo and group shows throughout the country and internationally in France and Germany, while also performing music in various New York venues. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, New York Times, ArtNews, LA Times, and the Village Voice. She lives and works in New York.

Richard Prince (b. 1949, Panama Canal) is among the most influential artists of the “Pictures” generation emerging in the ‘80s, introducing a new form of appropriation drawn from consumer and media culture and characterized by its cool criticality. Since his first solo exhibition, at Artists Space in New York in 1980, Prince has had shows at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1983), Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble (1988), IVAM Centre del Carme in Valencia (1989), Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1992), Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany (1997), MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (2000), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (2001), and Kunsthalle Zürich (2002), among other venues. His work has appeared in the Wiener Internationale Biennale (1981), Bienal de São Paolo (1983), Whitney Biennial (1985, 1987, 1997, and 2004), Biennale of Sydney (1986), Venice Biennale (1988), Art et Publicité 1890–1990 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1990), Documenta (1992), Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties at P.S. 1 in New York (2000), and watery, domestic at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2003). He lives and works in upstate New York.

Mark Roeder (b. 1974, Whittier, CA) received his B.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design in photography in 2000. His works often deal with influences and traces of minimalist and conceptual practice in ways that evince absurdity within critical sobriety and fancifulness within austerity. In 2001 he had his first solo show at Low Gallery in Los Angeles and has since participated in a number of national and international group exhibitions including: Art Needs an Operation, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; The Last of the Blood and Guts Brigade, organized by Larry Johnson, sixteen:one gallery, Santa Monica; Mink Jazz, organized by Bruce Hainley, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; When the Periphery Turns Center and the Center Turns Periphery, curated by Jens Hoffmann, 1st Prague Biennial, National Gallery, Prague; Unreal Estate Opportunities, curated by David Rimanelli, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea; London Is Balling, The Bart Wells Institute, London; and The Fifth International, New York NY. In 2005, Roeder had a solo exhibition titled Triangular Solid with Circular Inserts (Multiple Cracks, Possible Explanations) at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Maya Schindler (b. 1977, Israel) received her BFA from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University in 2002, after which she participated in The CORE Program at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Schindler has shown internationally in numerous group and solo shows throughout the US, Israel, and Europe. She is represented in Los Angeles by Anna Helwing Gallery.

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