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19 June 2007 | Painting & Drawing June 2007 |
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 Like the Spice
Gallery, New York Liz Brown Most Triumphant 22 June - 5 Aug 2007 Like the Spice is proud to present Most Triumphant: Paintings by Liz Brown, opening Friday June 22nd in conjunction with the celebration of its one-year anniversary. Time freezes and history sits silent in this collection of majestically deadpan paintings. Building on her successful first New York solo show at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts in Chelsea this exhibition features work from several new series. Ms. Brown's recent paintings troll the shallow pool of memory to see if we really catch much in our day-to- day experience. Dinosaurs, battleships, miraculous vans, an indoor undersea paradise, and a machine with all the answers populate this exhibition. Ships stage epic battles against a vast and empty ocean. Vans make Duke's of Hazard style jumps and drift off towards heaven. Natural and artificial histories battle each other in chilly silence. Even the forest seems air- conditioned as painted by Brown. The once and future king of the thunder lizards, deposed, stands watch over his diorama. These epics flattened onto canvas refuse to have their grandiosity distilled out of them, retaining all the resonance of echoes. To make immemorial the victors of nature and society, and transmute them into living fossils Brown edits out the cobwebs. As George Bernard Shaw said, "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it how to dance." Liz Brown has shown in California, Maryland, Connecticut and New York. She has been included in three previous group shows at Like the Spice. In 2005 she was a Space Program recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library Print Collection, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport Connecticut. She earned her MFA from the Mount Royal Graduate Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. Since then she has taught at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland and at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. Currently Liz lives and maintains her studio in Brooklyn. Image: Liz Brown Carnivore and Herbivore, 2005 55"x 80" Oil on Canvas Courtesy of Like the Spice Gallery, New York Like the Spice Gallery Read on... Like the Spice Gallery, New York |
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 Freight +
Volume, New York MARLÈNE MOCQUET Recent Paintings Project Space: SYLVAN LIONNI Zugzwang June 21 - August 17 2007 Melding surrealism with the sublime, Marlène Mocquet drips her canvases in oils, acrylics and gouache, creating an effect equal parts ethereal, warped and fantastic. Each disparate picture registers as a character within a greater aesthetic alphabet that Mocquet employs to describe an absurd microcosm of players and scenes. Mocquet's is a world of animated objects and anthropomorphic animals. Birds, volcanoes and beasts bleed into her raw surfaces. She simultaneously obeys and defies her materials - sometimes creating the illusion of a watercolor, other times letting the viscosity of paint live on its own. Bold and arbitrary gestures operate as starting points to generate imagery and dictate composition - these surrealist devices are utilized to develop her dizzying brand of anti-narrative. Mocquet's lucid formal vernacular is reminiscent of early Paul Klee or at times Max Ernst in her affinity for symbols and otherworldly stand-ins. The aesthetic qualities of Klee's almost primitive early drawings and paintings appear in delicate ways throughout Mocquet's arrangements. Her work also lays claim to such varied sources as Art Brut, the Cobra Movement, the grotesquerie of James Ensor, the exquisite palate of Emil Nolde, and the transcendent botanicals of Odilon Redon. The artist's coarse mark-making and the faux- naïf of subject matter presents an almost brutal and seemingly outsider quality. A recent graduate of the School of the Fine Arts of Paris, this will be Marlène Mocquet's first US solo exhibition, having recently shown her work at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris. On display at Freight + Volume will be a selection of nearly 20 small canvases, a sampling of the artist's most recent work. In the project space Sylvan Lionni will present four new hard-edged abstractions that emphasize his labor-intensive painting process, exploring forms of signage and the influence of everyday consumerist fixtures. Fascinated by the banal objects of daily life - faded American flag stickers, lotto tickets and computer keypads - Lionni translates this source material into his own lineage of dead-pan picture making. Sylvan Lionni received his MFA from Bard College, NY and BA from SVA, NY. His solo exhibitions include Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH; Fusebox, Washington, DC and Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY. Born in Cuckfield, England, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Image: Marlène Mocquet The Volcano to the Bird (Le volcan à l'oiseau), 2007 35 x 35 cm / 13.7 x 13.7 in mixed media on canvas Courtesy of Freight + Volume, New York Freight + Volume Read on...Freight + Volume, New York |
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 Monika Sprüth
Philomene Magers London KAREN KILIMNIK 19 June - 21 July 2007 Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present new works by Karen Kilimnik in their Grafton Street space in London. Renowned as one of the pioneers in the early 1990's for her deconstructed installations and assemblages of seemingly random objects with an emphasis on 'throw away' materials - Kilimnik's paintings and installations are a highly personalised appropriation of historical and contemporary sources. Drawing on the world of fairy tales, romance, ballet, mysteries, various magazines and newspapers, TV, European stately homes and painters such as Stubbs, Oudry and Raeburn, Kilimnik casts these diverse elements like a stage director in her own play. Part of this stage direction involves the architecture of the exhibition space. Works are often exhibited either in real historical venues - Palazzetto Tito, Venice; Powel House, Philadelphia; Historisches Museum, Haus zum Kirschgarten, Basel - or spaces are created to resemble European period salons replete with wallpaper, cornices and fireplaces. The 18th century Grafton Street premises provide an ideal setting for this show. Visitors to the gallery are confronted by The Jungle in La Bayadère in London. A reinterpretation of a work first seen at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Munich in 2003 and comprising trees, plants, birds and sound, the piece is inspired, not only by the ballet La Bayadère (famously choreographed by the balletmaster Marius Petipa and set in the romanticized, ethereal 'exoticism' of India), but also an episode of the cult TV series The Avengers involving a retired colonel who, on his return from a British colony, creates a fake jungle in the English countryside. The back gallery, decorated in the manner of a traditional English period drawing room with striped Regency-style wallpaper and mouldings contains several new paintings and works on paper recalling a romanticised world of English teas (The Egerton House hotel, London - tea time, 2007), old London (London Taxicab at Dukes Hotel London, England, 2007) and bucolic bliss (the pastel cloud, yellow + pink, on a summer´s day, 2007). Karen Kilimnik lives and works in Philadelphia, USA. Her work has been seen in major solo exhibitions, most recently at Le Consortium, Dijon and also the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris which toured this spring to the Serpentine Gallery, London. The first comprehensive survey of her work in the US, recently acclaimed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times, continues at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art until August 5th before travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (September 7 - November 4, 2007), the Aspen Art Museum (December 14, 2007 - February 3, 2008) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (February 23 - June 8, 2008). Image: Karen Kilimnik London taxicab at Dukes Hotel London, England, 2007 Water soluble oil color on canvas 20,3 x 25,4 cm Courtesy of Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London Read on...Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers London |
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 MOT,
London TOM ELLIS "KLEVER STRASSE" June 22 - July 21 2007 Back Room Project by Richard Parry Tom Ellis invites us to take a walk up Klever Strasse where the architect appears to be a lazy drunken clown, with abandoned paintings, slacker expletives and a Berlin beer table. Even the Gallery has had its name inverted to become the artist. But then we are given glimpses of sharp wit and skilled craftsmanship when we realise that the artist has also designed the office furniture, a resplendent red glass table that spells out the word GONER, a prediction perhaps for the gallerist or curator that sits behind it? But before you can slap yourself knowingly on the back, we're back to dumb with a hastily painted self-portrait on a scrappy piece of sheet timber, which itself has been attached to sliding door mechanisms allowing the work to literally travel across the wall like some collapsing clown car. As we enter the main space, what appears, at first, to be a bizarre grouping of pseudo-modernist paintings, soon turn out to be the slacker musings of Ellis as he mixes purposefully dumb sentence construction with deconstructions of Picasso and Goya. These are again on sliders that turn the oversized paintings into doors or give them the option of somewhere to go, but too little room to move. This sounds like a clumsy metaphor for the many dead ends of painting, but in Klever Strasse, dumb is Klever, and if you are in any doubt as to how to wear your hang ups, Ellis has installed a German Beer Tisch for the audience to sit and contemplate, Très Passé, Fucker in a Landscape, The Lazy Thieving Cunt and of course, Fuck It. Tom Ellis lives and works in London and is represented by MOT International. Recent solo exhibitions include, Sweet F. A., Freight and Volume, New York, US, Photographies, Kontainer, Los Angeles, US Inversion, Platform, London and Unsupported Images, T1+2 Artspace, London. Forthcoming group exhibitions include Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, and he has exhibited in international exhibitions including, Intelligent Muscle, The Café Gallery, London Mixed Pickles, K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland, Mining, West Germany, Berlin, Germany, Lore, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, As if by Proxy, Redux, London and Totem, MOT, London. Ellis has had a number of large scale commissions such as Je Ne Regrette Rien, Pulse, Miami, 2006, GONER, MOT, London, 2006 and Abuse Machine, Year06, London 2006. He has also been invited to international residencies at Berlin Artists' Residency, Alte Buchbinerei, 2006 and Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, 2005. This month's Back Room Project is by Richard Parry who graduated from Goldsmiths University last year and has since being one of the founding members of The New Dome, who famously built a Mojito trough at the opening of one of their shows, which got the audience kneeling in front of Parry's paintings. What will await you when you look beyond the green curtain at MOT is anyone's guess, but rest assured that it will also involve "Klever" painting. Image: Tom Ellis, 2007 Marker pen on Magazine page Courtesy of MOT, London MOT, London Read on... MOT, London |
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 Winkleman
Gallery, New York Sarah Peters Being American 15 June -21 July 2007 Winkleman Gallery is extremely pleased to present "Being American," our first solo exhibition by New York artist Sarah Peters. Through her ongoing exploration of the earnestness with which early American artists strived, but often failed, to match the formal achievement of their European counterparts, Peters presents a spellbinding vision of an imagined paradise where the artworks of 18th Century America that missed the mark (often due to their creator's misreading of an ideal that never really was) went to spend eternity. This invention is presented, in part, as an 20-foot drawing with sweeping vistas of an idyllic countryside populated with the specters of those naively rendered sculptures, overly ornate memorial urns, and a host of peculiar characters. In spite of the shared awkwardness or failure that defines this landscape, however, its overriding sensibility is one of utter bliss. Other smaller drawings focus on particular individuals or settings, each more eccentric than the next. With hints of preternatural forces and all the earthly delights one would hope to find in paradise, these images suggest they might have been the ones edited out of the Peale family scrapbook. Standing watch over the exhibition is Peter's self-portrait, a bust à la the terra cotta self-portrait of the first classical American sculptor, William Rush, with his head emerging from a log. Clearly pained by the fruits of her labor, the grimaced artist nonetheless looks patient and perhaps even hopeful that some viewer will see that the journey taken to this place was its own triumph. Sarah Peters credits her fascination with early American art to her study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia. She completed her BFA at the University of Pennsylvania, and her MFA in Sculpture at the Virginia Commonwealth University. This is Sarah's first solo exhibition in New York. Image: Sarah Peters Dreamer 2006 Pen and pencil on paper 17 x 24 inches Courtesy of Winkleman Gallery, New York Winkleman Gallery Read on... Winkleman Gallery, New York |
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 REIMANN LE
BÈGUE, Dusseldorf Andreas Korte "Staub und Sterne" 23 June - 25 August 2007 "Staub und Sterne (Dust and Stars)" is the first solo exhibition of the Düsseldorf painter Andreas Korte (born in 1969) at REIMANN LE BÈGUE. He studied at the Düsseldorf academy of arts under Jan Dibbets and Gerhard Merz. The main focus of his oeuvre is based on the critical questioning and the contemporary reassessment of abstract art. Equally Andreas Korte works in different media, the initial point is always to be found in the idea of painting. Thematically his works concentrate on signs detached from the physical item. These signs are examined with painting in numerous layers, are reconstructed in colour and presented in new contexts. The viewer understands every single phase of the painting process - different levels overlap and open up new spatial and temporal dimensions. In the gallery large-size canvases will be shown, as well as smaller works and paper work. During the last years Andreas Korte has created a many-faceted and relevant pictorial work which is taking a concise position in the contemporary painting discourse. Image: Andreas Korte "Sterne 06", 2006 Oil on canvas 180 x 230 cm Courtesy of REIMANN LE BÈGUE, Dusseldorf REIMANN LE BÈGUE Read on...REIMANN LE BÈGUE, Dusseldorf |
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 Boots
Contemporary Art Space, St Louis MO School of Visual Arts MFA Road Show 22 June - 6 July 2007 >From the heart of Manhattan to the heartland of America, MFA ROAD SHOW showcases the work of twentyeight young international artists, all of whom received an MFA degree this year from New York City's School of Visual Arts. From June to September 2007, the exhibition of more than fifty works will travel from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Antonio, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Selected by Dan Cameron, the exhibition features brand-new work in a range of media: painting, drawing, video, photography, animation, and sculpture. Featuring work by: Nicholas Brooks · Si Jae Byun · Sarah Chacich · Jee Hui Chang · Eun Woo Cho · Damien Crisp · Charlotte Doglio · Mike Egan · Brianelectro · Nikolas Gambaroff · Miryana Gligoric · Hadassa Goldvicht · Peter Gregorio · Yu-Sheng Ho · Sung Hee Jang · Hee Soo Kim · Go Woon Lee · Crisman Liverman · Jason Bailer Losh · Lara Star Martini · Yoon Jee Nam · Rocco Nicolini · Ann Oren · Lai Chung Poon · Austin Shull · Ryan Sullivan · Lana Vogestad · Margaret Weber · Kristen Wykret · Yejin Yoo U.S. Summer Tour 2007 Boots Contemporary Art Space St. Louis, Missouri June 22 - July 6 Opening reception: Friday, June 22 Finesilver Gallery San Antonio, Texas July 13 - July 27 Opening reception: Friday, July 13 Arthur Roger Project Space New Orleans, Louisiana August 4 - September 1 Opening reception: Friday, August 4 Read on...Boots Contemporary Art Space, St Louis |
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