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PATRICK PAINTER INC: ROSS BLECKNER MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY - IMPORTANT PHOTO WORKS OVER THE LAST FORTY YEARS - 14 Aug 2010 to 9 Oct 2010 Current Exhibition |
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WEST GALLERY ROSS BLECKNER PAINTS LIKE FREDDY MERCURY SINGS WORKS FROM THE 80's August 14 - October 9, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, August 14, 5 to 7pm Patrick Painter, Inc., is proud to present an exhibition of paintings by New York artist Ross Bleckner. The show, opening in the West gallery on August 14th, will feature five works that come together to cohesively represent Bleckner's works during the 1980s. Throughout his career, Ross Bleckner's paintings have been largely an investigation of change, loss, and memory, often addressing the idea of mutating of viruses. By this, his art can be read as finding beauty in our inherent vulnerability. Bleckner uses symbolic imagery rather than direct representation, and his work is visually elusive with forms that constantly shift appearance. "So much of my work is about building up and taking apart," stated Bleckner, "about how the shapes form and uniform, how they dissolve and reassemble." Two of the featured paintings, Unknown Quantities of Light (1987) and Stripe Painting with Bird (1989; pictured above) are both prime examples of Bleckner's stripped motifs that were employed frequently during this period of his career. His use of obscure forms, hidden by the monochrome overlay, are employed to signify change and the deterioration of memory. The included work Small Count No Count, (1989) is a display of Bleckner's exploration of mutations at the cellular level in response to his being affected by particular illnesses. This brings into thought the imagery of things in flux that are briefly glimpsed, the act of going from sick to healthy, and back again. By smearing and blurring the painted surfaces, he makes the delicate subjects appear all the more tenuous, which acts as a metaphor for fragile beauty. Bleckner attended New York University before earning his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1973. Works by the Bleckner are held in collections around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst in Oslo, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. EAST GALLERY MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY IMPORTANT PHOTO WORKS OVER THE LAST FORTY YEARS August 14 - October 9. 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, August 14, 5 to 7pm Patrick Painter Inc. is proud to present a group exhibition of photography in the East gallery at Bergamot Station, featuring important conceptual photo works by artists John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Craigie Horsefield, Mike Kelley, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Jeff Wall, Christopher Williams, and Christopher Wool. A series of eight photographs, titled National City (ed. 1996/2009) will be featured in the exhibition by the widely respected master John Baldessari. These images were taken of his hometown near San Diego, and include a painting of a grey circle in each cityscape that is employed to lure the eye to the visual margins of each photograph. These are prime examples of Baldessari's interest in the banality and truth that is so essential to his work. Baldessari has been exhibited at institutions that include the Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and a current retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Dan Graham has proved himself to be an all-encompassing artist in his thirty-plus year career. Entirely self-taught, his wide variety of work consists of performance art, installations, video, sculpture, and photography. A fine example of his conceptual photography from the 1960s will be featured in the exhibition, entitled Robert Smithson (ed. 1968/1993). He work has been exhibited in a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Moore College of Art and Design, the Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Kroller-Muller Museum in Holland, and the Kaisma Museum in Helsinki, Finland. Kelley is also the focus of an upcoming retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. English artist Craigie Horsfield prints the black and white photographs of his surroundings and the people around him many years after they were initially shot, thus bringing memory and reality into contrast. His photographs are often part of collaborative social projects that are concerned with how individuality is reliant upon the relationship to one's surroundings. Horsfield was a Turner Prize nominee in 2006, and his works have been shown many international venues including Documenta XI in 2002 and in the Whitney Biennial in 2003. Mike Kelley's work grapples with mass culture's representations, undermining sacrosanct subjects (history, art, philosophy, religion, science) and their practitioners through popular culture's leveling and debasing inscriptions.His diverse range of works include textiles, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance, photography and video installation. Kelley earned his BFA in 1976 at the University of Michigan and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1978. His work has been exhibited at venues that include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, the Tate Liverpool, and Centre Georges Pompidieu in Paris. For more than thirty years French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne has explored the intimate bond between subject and photographer through a non-traditional approach that combines precise conception, visionary inventiveness, and infinite patience. Mylayne's photographic subjects, commonplace birds such as sparrows, starlings, and bluebirds, belie the unique experience that Mylayne captures in his photography. His work has been shown at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, and the Mus�e d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne. Canadian artist Jeff Wall is well known for his large-scale cibachrome photographs that are strategically back-lit. His photographic oeuvre often uses his home city of Vancouver's blend of natural beauty, urban decay, and the postmodern and industrial mundane as the backdrop. This is combined with classical pictorial compositions which emulate the great Japanese painter Hokusai and other art historical greats like Manet and C�zanne. Considerably well versed in modern art history, Wall received his MA from the University of British Columbia in 1970 with his thesis exploring Berlin Dada. His work has been the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and he has participated in many group shows worldwide. Christopher Williams' photography is often described at sociophotographic, as his subjects conceptually explore codes of advertising, photography, architecture, and ethnography. Williams attended the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s where he studied under fellow exhibitor John Baldessari. He has been exhibited at Le Magasin in Grenoble, Kunsthalle Z�rich, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Christopher Wool is often recognized for his large, black and white motifs in the genre of painting, but this can also be observed in his featured photograph Incident on 9th Street (1997). Wool's specialty also includes a wide range of painterly styles and techniques that include spray paint, silkscreen, and painting by hand. He received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and later continued his studies at the New York Studio School and New York University. Wool has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 4-7pm. For press inquiries pleases contact the gallery. |
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