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White Columns: MARCH - APRIL 2009 - 10 Mar 2009 to 18 Apr 2009 Current Exhibition |
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GALLERY: WILLIAM SCOTT - 'GOOD PERSON' WHITE ROOMS: STEVEN BALDI and NIKKI KATSIKAS THE BULLETIN BOARD: ZACH HOUSTON - 'POEM STORE' PROJECT: 'COPY' - XEROX EDITIONS BY RITA ACKERMANN, CARTER, ANNE COLLIER, WADE GUYTON, TAMAR HALPERN, SCOTT KING, NATE LOWMAN, ARI MARCOPOULOS, ADAM MCEWEN, DAVE MULLER, OLIVER PAYNE & NICK RELPH, JOSH SMITH, and JONAS WOOD. MARCH 10 - APRIL 18, 2009 GALLERY: WILLIAM SCOTT - 'GOOD PERSON' White Columns is pleased to present �Good Person� a solo exhibition by the San Francisco-based artist William Scott. This will be William Scott�s second exhibition at White Columns following on from his 2006 White Room exhibition. William Scott (b. 1964) works at the celebrated Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California, USA. Established in the early 1970s Creative Growth is a visionary art workshop and studio program that serves a community of adult artists with mental, physical, and developmental disabilities. William Scott�s drawings, paintings, and sculptures relate directly to his personal circumstances: exploring the social topography of his native San Francisco, and aspects of his emotional and spiritual life. For many years William Scott has been working on an ongoing urban planning project that would see San Francisco � in Scott�s terminology � �cancelled�, only to be re-imagined, rebuilt, and rechristened as a new city named �Praise Frisco.� Scott�s urban project, which was the subject of his 2006 White Room exhibition at White Columns, is rooted in a desire to see his own socially marginalized neighborhood of Bay View / Hunter�s Point �torn down� and then subsequently renewed according to his carefully detailed plans. Scott�s ambitious, optimistic, and deeply humane project engages explicitly with San Francisco�s recent past, present realities, and potential future. The current exhibition - �William Scott � Good Person� - focuses on Scott�s ongoing series of portrait works which depict himself, members of his immediate family, and members of his local community, alongside characters drawn from his imagination (though often based on real subjects, including identifiable celebrities such as Diana Ross.) Scott juxtaposes these individuals and characters in complex and recurring narrative scenarios that operate somewhere between autobiography and fantasy (e.g. in one series of works Scott imagines how his life might have unfolded in different circumstances.) Whilst rooted in personal experience, William Scott�s work ultimately addresses universal questions of identity, community, faith, and the daily challenges we all face navigating reality. �William Scott � Good Person� has been organized by White Columns in collaboration with the Creative Growth Art Center. An expanded version of this exhibition, organized by White Columns, was originally presented at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2008, as a part of a series of exhibitions coordinated by the British artist Jeremy Deller. William Scott�s work has been shown extensively at the Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland, CA, and in other Bay Area venues including Southern Exposure and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. His work has been shown at Gavin Brown�s enterprise, New York, and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He recently had a one-person exhibition at Galerie Impaire, Paris (2008.) White Columns has collaborated extensively with the Creative Growth Art Center over the past four years, presenting solo exhibitions by Creative Growth artists Aurie Ramirez, Dan Miller, and William Scott at White Columns, as well as presenting work by these and other Creative Growth artists in exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, and elsewhere. �William Scott � Good Person� has been generously supported by The Jeffrey A. Altman Foundation and Owl Creek Asset Management. WHITE ROOMS: STEVEN BALDI and NIKKI KATSIKAS White Columns is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by the Sea Cliff, Long Island-based artist Nikki Katsikas. Working in a slippery tradition of figurative painting that includes such maverick figures as Florine Stettheimer, Milton Avery, Alex Katz, David Hockney, or more recent exponents such as Elizabeth Peyton or Karen Kilimnik, Katsikas�s modestly scaled and highly idiosyncratic paintings describe a milieu that is at once deeply personal yet paradoxically universal. Working mostly with existing imagery � inc. photographs clipped from newspapers and magazines, movie stills, images from art history, and family snapshots � Katsikas�s subjects have included scenes from Renais� �Last Year at Marienbad� and Wes Anderson�s �The Royal Tenenbaums�, portraits of musicians Sly Stone and Elton John, to more elusive, common place images whose sources are less readily identifiable. Nikki Katsikas lives and works in Sea Cliff, Long Island. She received a BFA from New York�s School of Visual Arts in 2008. Katsikas�s work was selected for Takashi Murakami�s 2008 Geisai Art Fair in Miami by jurors Bonnie Clearwater, Matthew Higgs, Shamim Momin, and Joao Ribas. She subsequently received the Geisai Award. Katsikas�s White Room will be her first solo gallery exhibition. White Columns is pleased to present 'Image Image' the first solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Steven Baldi (b. 1983). Central to Baldi�s installation is a group of recent paintings that each incorporate an image of the Museum of Modern Art�s 1932 �Modern Architecture: International Exhibition� catalog juxtaposed with painted versions of recent exhibition announcements from New York�s Miguel Abreu Gallery. Self-reflexively acknowledging painting�s multiple histories Baldi�s complex works incorporate strategies of reproduction and trompe l�oeil effects, whilst exploring questions of institutional hegemony and historical context, alongside formal and technical issues relating to process, production, appropriation and translation. Steven Baldi lives and work in New York. He received an BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York in 2006. Recent group exhibitions include �Regroup Show�, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, and �Pawnshop�, E-Flux, New York (both 2007.) THE BULLETIN BOARD: ZACH HOUSTON - 'POEM STORE' White Columns is proud to present the first New York solo project by the Oakland-based artist Zach Houston. Houston�s installation in The Bulletin Board project space consists of an accumulation of recent typed poem-works. Houston will also be present at the exhibition�s opening reception on March 10, from 6-8 pm creating new typed poetry works as part of an ongoing performative work called �The Poem Store.� In a recent statement Houston elaborates on his project: �My focus is primarily on language and trope. � I operate a performance / literature / business / art piece informally referred to as The Poem Store, a project that consists of selling spontaneous free verse composed on a manual typewriter at public events. � if you Google my name, most of the top searches are for me - in various ways - and offer a vague insight on how The Poem Store is documented.� Houston also recently offered a list of artists and writers - and territories - whose work intersects with his, including: �� vaneigem/situationists, gertrude stein, kenneth patchen�s novels, brautigan, aram saroyan, jarry, glossolalia, wilhelm reich, christian bok, transhumanism, dada, space migration, paul laffoley, darger and the book about clouds, terence mckenna, mark lombardi, california, kenneth goldsmith, lighght, john cage, buckminster fuller, marshall mcluhan, totality, singularity, et al.� Zach Houston�s project will be the fourth presentation in White Columns� ongoing and occasional �Poetry Project� series which seeks � in an informal manner � to consider the persistent entanglements between the visual art and poetry worlds. Previous �Poetry Project� installations have included presentations by Tim Griffin, Karl Holmqvist, and Malcolm Mooney. Zach Houston lives and works in Oakland, CA. He has exhibited his poem works and drawings since 2005. He studied at Sonoma State University between 2005 and 2007. He had a solo exhibition �Sad, Little, Quiet Psychotopography� at Johansson Projects, Oakland in 2009. Group exhibitions include: �Communication Breakdown�, Edlin Gallery, New York and Galerie Impaire, Paris (2008); �Location, Location, Location�, Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland; and �Oakland, an East Side Story�, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francsico (2006), amongst others. For more information visit: zachhouston.com PROJECT: 'COPY' XEROX EDITIONS BY RITA ACKERMANN, CARTER, ANNE COLLIER, WADE GUYTON, TAMAR HALPERN, SCOTT KING, NATE LOWMAN, ARI MARCOPOULOS, ADAM MCEWEN, DAVE MULLER, OLIVER PAYNE & NICK RELPH, JOSH SMITH, and JONAS WOOD Over the past 18 months White Columns has been commissioning artists to create 11� x 8 �� xerox prints. Employing accessible, yet anachronistic technology, the prints are produced in signed editions of 50 copies, and are sold to benefit White Columns� ongoing programs. To date fifteen artists have contributed to the series, which is ongoing. �Copy� is the first public presentation of all the prints published to date. To mark the occasion we will launch three new prints produced by Rita Ackermann, Dave Muller, and Jonas Wood. White Columns� xerox prints are produced in signed editions of 50 copies (plus 10 Artist�s Proofs), and priced at $150 per print. (With the exception of Dave Muller�s five-part print which costs $250.) Prints can be purchased directly from White Columns: contact [email protected] or call 212 924 4212 |
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