Chicago Opening: October 17, 5-8 PM October 17 - November 29, 2008 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10-6; Saturday, 11-5
Josh Azzarella
Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Josh Azzarella.
Josh Azzarella borrows iconic historical imagery and manipulates the contents to reveal an altered view of potent events that have shaped our collective conscience. The images chosen for this exhibition range from serene landscapes wiped of their violent and defining events to scenes taken from more obvious sources, slightly edited, shed of the actions that disrupted our past and continue to influence our lives. Through the reworking of still images and video footage from historic prize winning journalism, security and news footage made famous by the media, and other documentation of well-known events, a quiet pause is created. Events are erased as ghosts and impressions from one's memory emerge in an eerie retelling.
Josh Azzarella (b. 1978, Ohio) lives and works in NY. He has recently had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, New York and Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA. Azzarella was the recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award and had a solo exhibition from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Selected group exhibitions include shows at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University, Catherine Clarke Gallery, San Francisco, Clarke Western Bridge, Seattle, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick NJ.
Danica Phelps Now and Then
Kavi Gupta is proud to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Danica Phelps.
Phelps has made several installations utilizing the ephemeral nature of flowers and will continue this project for her exhibition at Kavi Gupta. Fresh flowers are combined with discarded cardboard, plastic and other waste materials that she arranges in an intuitive and playful manner, hinting to a makeshift roadside shrine. The room at first is filled with the fresh pungent smell of flowers and life, but as time passes the smell becomes more unpleasant emphasizing the inevitable outcome. During this process drawings are produced of the flowers as they begin to wilt. After the flowers eventually die, the drawings are all that remain to document their existence. This subtle metaphor speaks to notions of preserving time and holding on to the impossible.
Danica Phelps (b. 1971) lives and works in New York, NY. Phelps has recently had solo exhibitions at Zach Feuer Gallery, NY; Ritter/Zamet, London; Thirtyseven degrees, Sydney; Sister, Los Angeles; and Dina4 Projekte, Munich. Selected group exhibitions include shows at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; The New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY; Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
Upcoming Exhibitions
NADA ART FAIR, Miami December 4-7, 2008 Featuring Melanie Schiff and Tony Tasset
