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Simon Linke
September 9 -
October 25, 2008
Mireille Mosler, Ltd.
is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Simon
Linke's Artforum advertisement paintings dating from
1988 to the present. The classic square Artforum ad (the
grid-like design of which was conceived by Ed Ruscha,) serves
as an indelible endorsement of the exhibition it announces.
Although Artforum is respected for its serious editorial
content, its advertisements have become an increasingly
significant component of the magazine. Often seen before or in
lieu of the actual exhibition, advertisements encourage
pre-judgment based on commercial qualities such as graphic
design, recognizable gallery logos, or the artist's assumed
prestige. With humor, critique, and technical precision, Linke
reproduces these familiar images to displace the ego and
reclaim art's conceptual content.
Linke began working from the advertisement pages of
Artforum in 1986, employing various sized oil on linen
canvases. Visible in all of Linke's work is a laborious
painting process in which the act of reproduction becomes an
act of human accomplishment. Early works contain an especially
stark contrast between painterly brushwork and the strikingly
graphic content of 1980s Artforum pages. The monochromatic
color schemes and bold text point directly to the
advertisement's persuasive power and ultimate intent. As the
critic James Roberts comments on Linke's paintings, "the
topical becomes the historical when featured galleries or
artists no longer play an active part in today's discourse."
Classified, for example, was drawn from an Artforum section
that no longer exists. Similarly, the artists Richard Milani,
Martha Jackson, and Kevin Moss have lost their magazine
presence and galleries like Xavier Fourcade and Lawrence Rubin
have long-since closed. Andy Warhol and Gagosian, on the other
hand, continue to fuel Linke's compositions, suggesting an
association between historic relevancy and economic
success.
Recent paintings executed in 2007 and 2008 replicate
the exact scale of an Artforum layout. Thickly applied paint
reaches out in vibrant colors, playfully responding to
prominent shows by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and John Currin.
Matthew Marks, David Zwirner, and the continually notorious
Gagosian are the galleries Linke most commonly references,
randomly selected yet conspicuous in their reoccurrence.
Paintings of advertisements for edition companies and auction
houses (such as Sixteen Jackies, which refers to the November
2006 Christie's sale) quietly comment on art's commercial
relevancy. The paintings thus chronicle both the evolution of
aesthetics and the art market's nascent swell.
The Australian born Simon Linke
lives and works in London and is represented there by One in
the Other. Linke had solo shows at the Grey Art Gallery, New
York (1986), Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, (1987),
Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam (1988), Lisson Gallery, London
(1987, 1990 & 1996) and Michael Janssen Gallery, Cologne
(1999). In 2005, Linke had a retrospective at Le Consortium in
Dijon in 2004. His group shows include: Comment peindre aprés
Picabia at Richter?, FRAC Limousin (2007), Yesterday Begins
Tomorrow, Deste Foundation, Athens (2004), Objects for the
Ideal Home. The Legacy of Pop Art, Serpentine Gallery, London
(1991), Everything That's Interesting is New (1996), Deste
Foundation, Athens and Soho Guggenheim, New York and in
Apperto at the Venice Biennale in 1988.
Image:
Simon Linke
Sarah Lucas, 2008
Oil
on linen
10 by 10 inches
25.4 by 25.4 cm
Courtesy of
Mireille Mosler, Ltd.
Mireille Mosler, Ltd.
35 East
67th Street
New York, NY 10065
+1 212.249.4195
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Wyer Gallery,
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Christine Aerfeldt & Elinor
Evans
11 Sept 2008 to 19 Oct 2008
Wyer Gallery is pleased to announce
an exhibition of new paintings by Christine
Aerfeldt and Elinor Evans. The show
features depictions of women by both artists who each explore
constructs of female identity in western art and explore how
women are figured and fashioned in contemporary popular
culture.
Christine Aerfeldt's past work,
informed by her Estonian heritage, featured kitsch figurines
or dolls amongst manipulations of old master allegorical
imagery. In a similar fusion of high and low cultures, her new
paintings rethink Dutch 17th century genre paintings which
show women within the domestic environment sewing, cleaning
and cooking etc by depicting women, with postures derived from
fashion models in magazines or on the catwalk, doing 'women's
work' but re-contextualized within the landscape environment
instead of inside the home.
Elinor Evans paintings are
stylistically distinct from Aerfeldt's yet she presents images
of women in a similarly fetishised context to her. However,
she uses her own body in her paintings as an act of
empowerment, celebration and culpability; she uses masks to
hint at an underlying discomfort and often derives poses that
are reworked from paintings of the 18th century masters. In
this way, she comments on mythologies of women in art history
and explores contemporary political notions of femininity. But
her work's success is balanced on a taut interplay between
playfulness, duplicity and eroticism.
Christine Aerfeldt is a graduate of
Chelsea School of Art and, formerly, Adelaide Central School
of Art. Her work is found in public and private collections
across the world, most recently those of Charles Saatchi and
David Roberts. Her first solo show in the UK is with Wyer
Gallery next year.
Elinor Evans is a graduate of
Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art where in
2004 she won the Amlin Prize for most promising young artist.
Welsh by origin (she won the Young Wales Exhibition in Conwy,
North Wales, last year) Evans currently divides her time
between Wales, London and Spain where she exhibits regularly
and is a founding member of The Shaman Project, a moving
exhibition of music, art and performance that has been based
in Salamanca and Bilbao. Her paintings can be found in public
and private collections across the world including, in her
native Wales, the Welsh Museum and National Welsh Assembly,
Cardiff.
Images:
Left:
Elinor Evans
Posing with
Lolita
Oil on canvas, 2008
156 x 191 cm
Right:
Christine Aerfeldt
Avalanche
Knitter
Oil on canvas, 2008
200 x 150 cm
Courtesy of Wyer Gallery, London
Wyer Gallery
191 St. John's
Hill
London, SW11 1TH
+44 020 7223 8433
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Zhu Yi Yong
Red Star
18
Sept 2008 to 18 Oct 2008
798 Avant
Gallery is proud to showcase Zhu Yi
Yong - Red Star, a solo exhibition by the renowned
Chinese artist Zhu Yi Yong. This will be the artist's debut
solo exhibition in New York City. Zhu Yi Yong - Red Star
showcases new works that expand on his ongoing exploration of
the popular child's game, cat's cradle. Zhu Yi Yong was born
in Chongching, Sichuan Province, in 1957. He studied oil
painting at the highly acclaimed Oil department of Sichuan
Fine Arts Institute in China in 1977, in the first class of
students to be admitted after the Cultural Revolution. After
graduating from the academy he was offered the position of
associate professor of oil painting, a job he still holds
today. His paintings are critically acclaimed in China; having
won numerous awards, and is held in the collection of the
Chinese National Museum of Art in Beijing.
Zhu Yi Yong's Red Star paintings are depictions of
children rendered in a highly realistic style. His use of a
monochromatic palate to paint the children is offset by the
high-keyed string of red that forms the red star in the
children's hands. The children by turn are depicted alone, as
well as amongst family. Each child's red star is unique.
The game of cat's cradle is played all over the world
existing in many different forms and under many different
names. It harkens back to an age of simplicity and innocence,
a time when a child's imagination is taking form and their
interests are beginning to grow. The red star that every child
has shaped in their hands carries all the weight of China's
revolutionary past. It is a wry juxtaposition, the children of
the future holding in their hands the powerful symbol of
China's collective memory.
Image:
Zhu Yi Yong
Family Memory No 2, 2008
Oil on canvas
160 x 120
cm
Courtesy of 798 Avant Gallery, New
York
798 Avant Gallery
511 W 25th
St
Suite 502
New York, NY 10001
+1 212.216.9018
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Mutherland, Chicago
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Edra Soto
"The Greatest Companions"
September 27th till October 17th, 2008
'The
Greatest Companions' is a series of paintings that explore
sociological aspects of Latino culture and how it is perceived
through the media. As the exploratory research subject, Artist
Edra Soto chooses the Puerto Rican icon, Iris
Chacon. Ms.Chacon was a pioneer of the 'vedette' movement in
Puerto Rico in the 1970's. Her self-named variety show 'El
Show de Iris Chacon' was very popular, and her alluring looks
and provocative costumes didn't prevent her from becoming a
favorite family entertainer and a legendary diva that few
other woman in Latin America have able to emulate.
'The Greatest Companions' series is a reflection of
Soto's memories watching 'El Show de Iris Chacon'. As a child,
she was drawn to her raw, incomparable demeanor, her
perceptibly untrained dance style, and her charismatic and
charming persona. Channeling Ms. Chacon as her alter ego and
setting the paintings in vintage scenarios inspired by her
show, the series questions the fascination of Latino woman for
self-exposure and how Latino culture is portrayed in the
mainstream popular media; woman as the protector and the one
to be protected.
The show will also feature works of
artists Maria Gaspar, Harold Mendez, Albert Stabler and one of
Soto's High School senior art student, Ramiro
Trejo.
Edra Soto was born in San Juan,
Puerto Rico in 1971. In 1995 Edra received the Alfonso Arana
Fellowship to work in Paris, France for a year. She attended
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she obtained
her Masters degree in 2OOO. Immediately after, she attended a
2 months residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture. She has exhibited in Puerto Rico, Paris, Australia,
Spain, Russia, New York, St Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago. Some
of her latest presentations include: Site-Unseen curated by
Julie Laffin at the Chicago Cultural Center; Consuming War,
curated by Barbara Koenen at the Hyde Park Art Center and
upcoming: Landscapes of Experience and Imagination, curated by
Judith Hoos Fox at the Krannert Art Museum at University of
Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. Edra Soto's work is currently
featured in the New American Paintings Midwest edition
#77.
Image:
Edra Soto
The Greatest Companions,
2008
Courtesy of the artist
MUTHERLAND
1125 W. 31st Street
#1F
Chicago,
Illinois
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Raandesk Gallery of Art, New York
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JASON BRYANT
SOMEDAY, MAYBE,
NEVER
September 18 - November 21
"Someday, Maybe, Never" is a collection of
Jason Bryant's latest works, including large
scale oil paintings and small intricate depictions of figures,
their clothing and features deftly captured in a highly
realistic style that evokes a film still or a cropped
photo. Inspired by film and comic book images from
childhood, Bryant dramatically crops his images to create a
more dynamic perspective, often putting the viewer intimately
close to his subjects - close enough to see individual hairs
or the smallest detail on a shirt collar. His
portraits have been described as "freeze frames.. with..
natural-looking fuzzy colors and blurry outlines," by J.
Bowers of the Baltimore City Paper.
Though Bryant's subjects are often celebrities and
models, the images he depicts are more about the figure with
full features obscured enough to draw the focus to the
dimensionality of the surfaces that he creates with just paint
and colored pencil. Anna Altman of NY Arts
Magazine described the artist and his work best:
"Bryant attempts to realize and sharpen the simultaneity of
two worlds: the image world of film, celebrity and
popular culture in concert with the real world we inhabit
physically", Working directly from an image onto the canvas or
paper, he achieves depth, texture and richness that is often
startling to the viewer.
Jason Bryant is a prolific artist
whose paintings and drawings have been featured in more than a
dozen solo and group shows at galleries and venues including:
The Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina; The
Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska; Transport Gallery, Los
Angeles, California; The James E. Lewis Fine Arts Museum, and
The Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland; Tribes
Gallery, New York City and Gallery 32 in London,
England. Bryant earned a BFA in painting at East
Carolina University followed by an MFA from the Mt. Royal
School of Art Graduate program at the Maryland Institute,
College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon graduation,
Bryant moved to Brooklyn, NY to further his skills, and became
an assistant to noted portrait artist Kehinde Wiley.
Bryant's work has been featured in Link Magazine,
Direct Art Magazine, New Art International,
and NY Arts magazine.
Image:
Jason Bryant
Someday, Maybe, Never
(2008)
oil on canvas
102 x 152 cm
Courtesy of
Raandesk Gallery of Art, New York
Artist talk with Jason Bryant:
Saturday, October 4, 12
- 2 PM
Raandesk Gallery
16 W. 23rd
Street
4th Floor
New York
1 212 696 7432
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