25 March 2008

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Lounge / Monika Bobinska London Greg Rook Presented by: Lounge / Monika Bobinska Pulse New York Stand I-24 Pier 40 West Side Highway West Houston Street New York 27-31 March 2007 Lounge/Monika Bobinska is delighted to present a solo installation - 'We live like this' - by Greg Rook at Pulse Art Fair in New York. 'We live like this', a large-scale triptych, recreates the convention of the 'Great Picture' and the epic, bombastic grandeur of Hudson River painters such as Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt. It explores, as painted thought experiment, the possibility of looking again to the frontier wilderness to find answers. In this contemporary history painting, Greg Rook takes images from the press and popular media, as well as the past, in order to represent both historical and contemporary issues. The work attempts to show how current events are echoed by history - the past is reinterpreted in order to question the present. In 'We live like this', Rook takes the American landscape as seen in the UK through painting, film and television, and draws it through the Civil War and the cowboy mythology of early pulp literature, through Hollywood's recent revisionist westerns, and on towards Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic American wilderness in 'The Road'. The result is as full of despair as of hope. "As scenes and things at once, the Hudson River paintings communicate a double affirmation of divine blessing. They constitute the American wing of the Protestant ethic given cultural expression. They radiate self-congratulation and an almost cosmic complacency." >From Arthur Danto, 'Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present' 'We live like this' is the final painting in a series of works of the same name, a series presented as a sell- out show at Lounge/Monika Bobinska in February 2007. Greg Rook is a graduate of Goldsmiths College (MA in Fine Art) and Chelsea School of Art and Design (BA in Painting). He also read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College Oxford. Collections include David Roberts Collection and University of the Arts Collection. Image: Greg Rook 'We live like this' oil on canvas 183 x 307 cm | 72" x 121 " 2008 Courtesy of Lounge / Monika Bobinska, London Lounge / Monika Bobinska 242 Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9DA Lounge / Monika Bobinska, London Greg Rook Read on... Lounge / Monika Bobinska, London

Mireille Mosler, Ltd New York JENNY PERLIN Sequence at Mireille Mosler, Ltd. New York March 26 - May 31, 2008 Addendum at Annet Gelink Gallery The Armory Show, booth #510 Pier 94 New York City March 27 - 30, 2008 Mireille Mosler, Ltd. and Annet Gelink Gallery are pleased to present drawings and drawing animations by Jenny Perlin. Sequence and Addendum will be on view at Mireille Mosler Ltd and at The Armory Show respectively throughout the Armory fair weekend, and at Mireille Mosler Ltd through the end of May. At Mireille Mosler Ltd, the exhibition title Sequence is shared with an installation of 160 drawings of ink on vellum, each drawing covered in a monochrome of 500 small squares in grid formation, in alternating colors of red, yellow, green and blue on each new sheet. The drawn grids are echoed in the grid of the installation, where the 160 unframed drawings cover an entire gallery wall floor-to-ceiling. Perlin created 500 squares per drawing, four drawings per day, in sum marking the passage of forty consecutive days. Perlin defines parameters for the work: once she has dipped her brush in ink, she cannot dip it again until the brush has completely run out of color. The temporality is visible within the individual drawings. As the process consumes the brush's color, the saturation of the squares fade, and every few rows Perlin recommences with fresh ink. Although Perlin follows the parameters of the project with diligence, subtle irregularities such as the consistency of the paint, wavering lines, and imprecise grids give the drawings each a unique character, attached to a precise moment in Perlin's process of making the work. In addition to Sequence, Mireille Mosler, Ltd, presents Flight. A five minute animation projected on 16- millimeter film traces Perlin's redrawing the text of 18 airport receipts, providing evidence of the artists's recent travels. Several receipt drawings created in the making of the film are also exhibited as independent works. The viewer observes the peculiar language of the receipts, Sbarro Pizza exclaims, Thank you very much! Please exercise regularly!, Providing care and comfort to people away from home, from Oakland, CA, and almost always Have a nice flight! By documenting such insignificant acts of daily consumption, Perlin comments on the generic language and temporality of economic transactions. Simultaneously, she reveals fragments of her own personal history and experience, albeit at the distance of disposable receipts or the frequently used abstract of a grid. At Annet Gelink Gallery, drawings from the series Addendum will be on view. In these drawings, Perlin utilizes images from music by J.S. Bach and information related to the trial of the Somali immigrant Nuradin Abdi, whose case has previously been the subject of Perlin's films. Abdi was arrested in 2003 and accused of planning to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus Ohio (Perlin's home state). Abdi made a deal with the U.S. Government to plead guilty to one charge. He will be given 10 years in prison and then most likely be deported to Somalia. The drawings combine images of technology, restricted trees, music by Bach and keyboard tunings, along with maps of Somalia and Ohio. Each drawing is two or three layers, the base layer is watercolor on archival paper, with one or two drawings of watercolor on vellum layered on top. Jenny Perlin received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and did postgraduate work at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She has had solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York (2006); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2005); and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas (2005). Her group exhibitions have included 3 Visions: Jenny Perlin, Peter Sarkisian, Hiraki Sawa, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee (2008); The California Files, CAA Wattis Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2007); Negatec, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires (2007); Version animée, Centre pour l'image Contemporaine, Geneva (2006); The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space, New York (2006); When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York (2006); A Perfect Union.. More or Less, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2004); and Aldrich at the Movies, The Aldrich Museum, CT (2004). Jenny Perlin is represented by Annet Gelink, Amsterdam and Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin. Image: Jenny Perlin Addendum #3, 2007 multilayered drawing, watercolor on paper overlaid with watercolor on vellum, 8.27 by 11.7 inches Courtesy of Mireille Mosler, Ltd, New York and Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Mireille Mosler, Ltd. 35 East 67th Street New York, NY 10065 Mireille Mosler, Ltd, New York Read on... Mireille Mosler, Ltd, New York

David Risley Gallery London Michael Simpson Presented by: David Risley Gallery VOLTA NY 7 West 34th Street New York 27 - 30 March 2008 David Risley Gallery are proud to present a solo presentation at VOLTA NY of new Bench Paintings by Michael Simpson. - In conversation with Jacob Naish. " I began the Bench Paintings in December 1989. My intention had been to make an 'hommage' to a man who had interested me since I was a young student; the?Neapolitan philosopher, Giordano Bruno. In more general terms, I wanted to make paintings about the infamy of religious history. The bench appeared in the earliest working drawings. For many reasons, it was an image immediately significant to the subject matter. I think of the bench as a powerful metaphor; for waiting, religious tyranny, trial and death. It is also historically, a place where justice and injustice is administered.Despite the weight of subjective references in my work, I believe ultimately that a painting must move beyond it's subject. In this sense, I am primarily concerned with the mechanics of painting" Michael Simpson Michael Simpson, b.1940, Dorset, United Kingdom Image: Michael Simpson Courtesy of David Risley Gallery, London David Risley Gallery 45 Vyner Street London E2 9DQ David Risley Gallery, London Read on... David Risley Gallery, London

Mark Moore Gallery Los Angeles Mark Moore Gallery PULSE New York 27-31 March 2008 Featuring works by: Tim Bavington Julie Heffernan Dimitri Kozyrev Jennifer Nehrbass Chad Person Amy Robinson Kim Rugg Allison Schulnik Ali Smith Lisa Stefanelli Yoram Wolberger Cindy Wright Kenichi Yokono PULSE New York will take place at Pier 40 March 27th - 30th and will coincide with The Armory Show at Pier 94. Pier 40 is located in Tribeca at Houston Street and the West Side Highway. In its third year, PULSE New York will feature works in all media from over 70 established and emerging galleries. PULSE, is a tri-annual invitational contemporary art fair that has been created to bridge the gap between established and alternative art fairs, and will feature a range of international galleries that have strong and consistent exhibition programs and aesthetics. Image: Chad Person M1 A2, 2008 U.S. currency on canvas 16 x 20 inches Courtesy of Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles MARK MOORE GALLERY Bergamot Station A1 2525 Michigwan Avenue Santa Monica CA 90404 Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles Read on... Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles

Josée Bienvenu gallery New York Solo Project: Ken Solomon VOLTA NY 7 West 34th Street New York 27 - 30 March 2008 For Volta NY, Josée Bienvenu gallery is pleased to present Post Party, a solo project by Ken Solomon. Ken Solomon will set up an early voting booth. He has drawn his own stamps of 5 presidential candidates. The originals are small hand painted images of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Ralph Nader. He subsequently printed hundreds of sheets of stamps for the public to cast their vote. People can place a stamp of their choice on an envelope and drop it into a clear ballot box. The results will be revealed at his upcoming exhibition opening on April 12, 2008 at Josée Bienvenu gallery. Post Party explores the imagery and iconography of the U.S. postal system. Whether it is building a public mailbox from sent parcels, or falsifying postage stamps, making a teepee-sized envelope or a giant rubberstamp of a blank stamp, Ken Solomon erects monuments to a soon-to-be extinct mode of communication. The works are a meshing of mathematics and whimsy. The process is intensive, pushing repetition to examine nuance. In some cases, as in Plastic Parts, Solomon draws the same image hundreds of time on envelopes that are mailed to the gallery. Precise control and uncertainty play together, allowing for third party mark making (the stamps, stickers or marker lines added by the post office) and the possibility of works getting lost. Born in New York, Ken Solomon lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been included in various group shows around the United States. His collaborative video with Marco Maggi, Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple, is currently on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and was included in the museum's exhibition New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions on view from November 21, 2007 - February 25, 2008. Several of his drawings are also included in MoMA's permanent collection. In December 2007, his video The Wig Project premiered at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami. Currently, his work can be seen at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York in their inaugural exhibition Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close. His video, Her Invisible Time will be included in Streetwise at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain in fall 2008. Image: Ken Solomon "Decision '08" (detail) gouache and mixed media 17 x 9.5 inches Courtesy of Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York Josée Bienvenu gallery 529 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York Read on... Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York

Seventeen London David Ersser solo exhibit VOLTA NY 7 West 34th Street New York 27 - 30 March 2008 David Ersser will present a new installation, titled The Ideal Home Show at the inaugural VOLTA NY fair. The work consists of the components for a room, the space littered with the debris of day to day living and the tools for passing time. Perhaps set in the mid 90's, the floor is strewn with beer cans, pizza, and procrastination. The display hints at an anti- Ikea showroom, resisting the show-home's order and utopianism by detailing the ashtray full of crushed cigarettes. The fair runs from 27th to 30th March 2008, located at 7 West 34th Street, at 5th Ave, New York. Consisting of specifically selected solo exhibits, beneath the overall title The Eye of the Beholder, VOLTA NY has been curated by Amanda Coulson and Christian Viveros-Faune. Image: David Ersser The Ideal Home Show Courtesy of Seventeen, London SEVENTEEN 17 Kingsland Road London E2 8AA Seventeen, London Read on... Seventeen, London

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