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Skotia Gallery, Sante Fe |
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The New Metropolis:
New paintings by Simon
McWilliams
5th August -30th August 2010
Skotia Gallery, Santa
Fe is pleased to welcome award winning Irish Artist
Simon McWilliams to their roster of
international artists.
These new paintings by Simon McWilliams
feature a coming together of paint and subject matter. His
title for the exhibition: The New Metropolis, is a
deliberate allusion to both fact and fantasy in our rapidly
changing visual environment. The title prompts images of Fritz
Lang's classic film and Pieter Brueghel's Tower of Babel. Mc
Williams, however, in his creations, utilizes the powerful
strangeness of the New City yet clothes it in such resplendent
colour that we experience the majesty of the Tower rather than
its dehumanizing characteristics.
His medium coalesces with the forms he is
creating. He implants new energy into the paint which enlivens
and becomes part of, the newly emerging buildings. The lush
fecundity of the pigment gives birth to some startling
structures and yet, one is aware of the drawing skills which
underpin these edifices of paint.
Image:
Simon McWilliams
"Metropolis"
Oil on Canvas
2010
195cm x 213cm
Courtesy of the artist and Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe
Skotia Gallery
150 W. Marcy Street Suite 103
Sante Fe
87501 New Mexico
T +1 505 820 7787
E info @ skotiagallery.com
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L-13 Light Industrial Workshop,
London |
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NEAL JONES
New Paintings and Handmade Things
9th July - 8th August
then
24th - 29th August
Book Launch: 'Green Guilotine' - Thursday 26th August
6.30 - 9.00pm
"I am looking for an image of
self-contained wildness..."
Neal Jones
"....(Neal Jones) is involved in the
perennial and the physical. His passion for nature, his love
of what he has called the compost of life, his years spent
working on his allotment in North London, and his despair in
the face of the destruction of nature that he sees all around
him predominates the work. He has now discarded some of the
nature he worked with, and developed the paintings towards
those things that had come to bother and intrigue him: namely
how to deal, in painterly terms, with the absurdities he sees
all around him, without relinquishing the firm roots of his
inspiration."
Tess Jaray (from Neal Jones: The Absurd is
the New Sublime?)
"Press release should mention squeaky
drills, sawing, the pleasure and slow pace of making things.
Modernism, peasants, Malevich?/Picasso?? poetry of animate
stuff...blah or... I'm "an absurd nihilist?" A bit of absurd
is ok, but I'm quite sensible and grounded really, my
paintings have darkness but also idiotic JOY"
Neal Jones from an e-mail to L-13
This exhibition will present paintings
and useful things that Neal has made from reclaimed materials
over the last year. These include plank chairs, hard wood
spatulas, bellows and toy boats. He has also hand made in
small editions, three books of his writings and images and a
special, very limited edition box set containing the books, a
spatula and a very small painting.
All of Neal Jones' work contains a radical
and sublime beauty that simultaneously rejects the gloss of
the new whilst bravely forging it's own (new) visionary path.
He employs a critical aesthetic/anti-aesthetic, set against an
acute understanding and love of his materials, their inherent
power, and their absurd uselessness. The resulting paintings
and objects convey a genuine sense of depth, warmth and
significant self-awareness that is a rarity in contemporary
culture.
L-13 will publish 'Green Guilotine' a full
colour book to celebrate the exhibition on the 26th August
2010.
Image: Neal JonesIdeally
Oil on reclaimed board
50.5 x 110 cm
2010
Courtesy of L-13 Light Industrial Workshop,
London
L-13 Light Industrial Workshop
31 Eyre Street Hill
London EC1R 5EW
T + 44 020 7713
8255
E L-13 @ L-13.org
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Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art,
Lisbon |
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RUI TOSCANO
OUT OF A SINGULARITY
9 July to 11 September
According to the Big Bang theory, the
Universe started as "singularity", about 13.7 billion years
ago. Singularities are zones that challenge today's knowledge
of physics. It is thought that exists inside the nuclei of
Black Holes, in which gravitational pressure may be so intense
that finite matter is compressed into infinite density. These
zones of infinite density are called "singularities". This
does not mean that the Big Bang is like a Black Hole; indeed,
it is seen as something completely different, as a singularity
extending through all space at a single instant, while a Black
Hole is seen as a singularity extending through all time at a
single point.
Our Universe is supposed to have started
from something infinitely small, infinitely hot and infinitely
dense - as a singularity.
Following on from research into landscape
and perception of the space within the field of cosmology that
he had started in The Great Curve (Espaço Chiado 8,
Lisbon, 2009), where he presented works in sculpture, video
and installation, in Out Of A Singularity the focus
of Rui Toscano's work is centred on drawing and
painting.
RUI TOSCANO (1970) was
born in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He studied Painting
and Sculpture at AR.CO (Centre for Art and Communication) and
at the FBAUL (University of Lisbon - School of Fine Arts) . He
has presented his work in galleries, museums and alternative
spaces since 1993, in exhibitions such as Take Off, Galerie
Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz, Austria (1997) , 1, MACS
(Serralves Contemporary Art Museum) , Oporto, Portugal (2002)
and Metaflux, 9. International Architecture Biennial,
Arsenale, Venice, Italy (2004).
His work is represented in several public
collections as Fundação de Serralves, Caixa Geral de
Depósitos, FLAD (Fundação Luso- Americana para o
Desenvolvimento) , António Cachola, Madeira Corporate
Services, PLMJ, Portugal Telecom, Fundación ARCO (Spain) ,
Fundación Coca-Cola (Spain) , MEIAC (Museo Extremeño e
Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporneo, Spain) and also in
numerous private collections between Portugal, Spain, Bra z i
l , Austria, Switzerland and USA.
Image: RUI TOSCANO
Messier 5 (NGC 5904), 2009-2010
acrylic on canvas, 250 x 400 cm
Courtesy of Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art,
Lisbon
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Rua Santo António à Estrela, 33
1350-291 Lisbon
Portugal
+351 213 959 559
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Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New
York |
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JENNIE C. JONES
Electric
July 8 - August 13, 2010
Sikkema Jenkins & Co is pleased to
present Electric, an exhibition of new works by
Jennie C. Jones, on view from July 8 through
August 13, 2010.
Jennie C. Jones works at the intersection
of art history and black history. She layers the formal
language of modern art-abstraction, minimalism-over the
conceptual and technical strategies of avant-garde jazz.
Jones' work in audio, sculpture and drawing extends the
parallel legacies of experimentation, wit and riff of these
radical cultural forms. The new work brought together in
Electric continues the artist's exploration of cultural
confluence, hybridization, and a more complicated and
historically inclusive form of modernism.
In her new audio work Slowly, In a
Silent Way-Caged Jones digitally slows a section of Miles
Davis' In a Silent Way (using tempo changes and
cross-fading) to match the length of John Cage's pivotal work
4'33". In Jones' edit, the time frame Cage set aside
for 'silence' is filled by Davis' measured hypnotic
instrumental score (his characteristic trumpet is absent from
the edited section). The result is a meeting of two notions of
silence.
The installation of this work is carefully
integrated with the architecture of the gallery: it is set for
playback on a loop that alternates between the side front
galleries. When its speaker is 'dead' the Cage piece is
recreated as the sound of its listeners, the space itself
filling the rest of the void. This is a mediated version of
Cage's work: the speaker has replaced the live
musicians.
In the main space, Jones presents a new
series of collage and ink drawings based on the packaging of
music. The "Song Container" series focuses on the
compact disc box, transforming the commonplace collateral of
listening into a minimalist art form. We are clearly still in
the territory of the formal language of analogue but a new
metaphor emerges in the reference to the 'emptiness' of the
digital realm. Jones' reconfigured containers-shells that once
held something as ephemeral as sound-are shown with display
racks and other objects that evoke the formal language of
minimalism. In the same space, a series of sculptural
'drawings' made from instrument cable are plugged directly
into the gallery wall. The medium of these works - instrument
cable - is part of the electrical apparatus used in the
capture and editing of the music featured in this exhibition.
Miles Davis' performance of In a Silent Way featured
a full-blown electric set-up and is regarded as the first of
his fusion recordings. John Cage was a well-known electronic
music pioneer. But by plugging into the non-conductor surface
of the gallery wall these wall works bring us back to the idea
of silence. In the same way, the artist playfully questions
the title of the exhibition.
Jones attended Rutgers University, Mason
Gross School of the Arts where she received her MFA in 1996.
Prior to that she attended The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, receiving a BFA in 1991. Over the past decade she has
participated in numerous prestigious artists residency and
fellowship programs, both nationally and international. In
2008 she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio
Study Center as well as a Visiting Artist at The American
Academy in Rome, Italy. Her awards include a Creative Capital
grant in 2008, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, in 2006,
and a Pollock-Krasner in 2000. Jones was the 2008 recipient of
the William H. Johnson Prize awarded to one emerging African
American artist a year. Upcoming exhibitions include a major
solo shows at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco and LA > < Art Los Angeles in early
2011.
Image:
Jennie C. Jones
Courtesy of
Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
Sikkema Jenkins & Co530 West
22nd Street NY 10011 New York, NY 10011 T +1 212 929
2262 E gallery @ sikkemajenkinsco.com
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