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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: ANTONIA WRIGHT | MARISOL REND�N | HUGO CROSTHWAITE - 18 Apr 2013 to 29 June 2013 Current Exhibition |
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ANTONIA WRIGHT: Be May 18 - June 29, 2013 Artists' Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6-8 pm. Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present Cuban-American artist ANTONIA WRIGHT in her first Los Angeles solo exhibition, titled Be, on view from May 18 — June 29, 2013. An artist's reception will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 6-8 pm. The sad, strange, beautiful vulnerability and, at times, painful faces of the human condition are all considerations in the work of Miami-based artist Antonia Wright. Wright explores the various politics and comic facets of human experience through a multifarious, process-oriented practice combining video, performance, photography, poetry, sound and sculpture. Wright acknowledges the layers of societal taboos and barriers between her artistic choices, and pointedly pushes them into the public realm for the viewer to examine. One view in Gallery One, the exhibition will present two videos: the premiere of the eponymously titled Be (2013) and Deep Water Horizon (2009). For Be, Wright covered herself in a colony of bees while practicing Tai Chi. Tai Chi and bees are similar in that they both have the capacity for violence, but in their peaceful states, raise vitality in the body and the environment. Wright's decision to place her own life in danger becomes a powerful metaphor for the fragility of life and a lesson for how we can remain peaceful in the face of danger. In preparation for the performance, which was enacted against a bright blue sun-filled April sky, Wright spent a year learning Tai Chi and meditation, including traveling to India to receive personal instruction at an ashram. Created in response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Deep Water Horizon depicts Wright rolling her naked body down a filthy, glass-strewn back alley in Miami during the middle of the night—as "a way to feel the equivalent of something that seemed so far away." Through Be and Deep Water Horizon, Wright stakes a personal claim and her integral role to the survival of our ecosystem, while the duality in these chosen subjects creates a visual metaphor that questions the violent direction our society continues to move in. Antonia Wright (born 1979) graduated from the New School University in New York City with an MFA in Poetry (2005) and studied at the International Center of Photography. She received her BA (2002) from the University of Montana, Missoula, MT. Recent exhibitions include Trading Places II at The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Perfect Lovers (a Frieze New York special project) at the White Box Gallery in New York, Are You Ok?, at Spinello Projects, Miami, Where All of Your Dreams Come True, at The Mosquera Collection, Miami, Fireflies, at Aeroplastics in Brussels, Belgium, and MOCA Optic Nerve VIII at The De La Cruz Collection, Miami. Other venues in South Florida include Primary Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Dorsch Gallery, The Tampa Museum of Art, The Frost Museum at Florida International University, and The Cisneros-Fontanals Foundation (CIFO). Wright's work is held in the permanent collections of Martin Z. Margulies at The Warehouse (Miami), The Hadley Martin Fisher Collection (Tampa), and the Marty & Cricket Taplin Collection at the Sagamore Hotel (Miami Beach). Wright has been featured in publications including Art in America, New York Magazine, Daily News, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, The Art Newspaper, The Sun-Sentinel, ArtSlant, and Miami Art Guide, among others. MARISOL RENDÓN So, Dragons Do Exist? (Considerations of the Unavoidable Syndrome of Illusion) May 18 - June 29, 2013 Artists' Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6-8 pm. Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present MARISOL RENDÓN in her first Los Angeles solo exhibition, titled So, Dragons Do Exist? (Considerations of the Unavoidable Syndrome of Illusion), on view from May 18 – June 29, 2013. An artist's reception will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 6–8 pm. Marisol Rendón pursues an interest in the metaphorical and quasi–spiritual existence of objects. She tirelessly searches for traces of human thoughts, hopes and emotions as encapsulated and expressed in the articles of our daily lives. Illusion is an element that has always intrigued her. "We inhabit a world in which we unceasingly look for a way, any way, to justify the difficult and sometimes the impossible.' says Rendón. 'Maybe people hold onto illusions to make themselves feel more comfortable. To give themselves a chance." Marisol Rendón grew up in Manizales, Colombia, surrounded by poverty, where hope itself was often an illusion as people clung to myths and superstitions to help them through their everyday life. "Illusion is a very imperfect concept. It's about something that doesn't really exist; or it does exist but it is so ambivalent that's it's hard to understand exactly what it is." In her work, Rendón tries to capture the moment when people see through their self–deceptions — when life forces them to shed a dream and they have to find some other way to keep going. In So, Dragons do Exist?, Rendón uses the image of the Komodo dragon to negotiate the interaction between our need for hopes and illusions, and myths and dreams—which allow us to face the unknown with wonder—and the cognizance it takes to make the right choices. The reality of the Komodo dragon is that of a living dinosaur: they are massive, exotic creatures. However, compared to images of fire breathing, winged beasts as conjured by their name, they can't help but disappoint. In So, Dragons do Exist? Rendón presents us with an opportunity find a balance between the dualities in our existence in a moment of empathy and contemplation. Marisol Rendón (Colombia, b. 1975) earned her MFA (2003) from Claremont Graduate University, CA, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. She also holds degrees in Fine Arts from Caldas University, Manizales, Colombia, and Semiotics and Hermeneutics from the National University of Colombia, Medellín. Upcoming exhibitions include Wobbleland at the New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA. Other recent exhibitions include Ojalá (Considerations of the Unavoidable Syndrome of Illusion) at Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, CA; Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, and Drawing the Line, both at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; The 43 Uses of Drawing at Rugby Gallery & Museum, Midlands, UK; An Interactive Experiment in Art at the California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA; Irrational Exhibits Five, Track:16, Santa Monica, CA; and Hello, is your refrigerator running?, at b–126 Gallery, Zurich, CH. She is currently professor and chair of the Fine Arts Department at Southwestern College in San Diego, where she lives and works. HUGO CROSTHWAITE: Studies for CARPAS May 18 - June 29, 2013 Artists' Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6-8 pm. Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present Hugo Crosthwaite: Studies for CARPAS in the Project Space. The exhibit will open May 18 and run through June 29, 2013, and an artists' reception will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 6-8 pm. Hugo Crosthwaite's twenty six Studies for CARPAS were created in preparation for his CARPAS installation that will be presented at the forthcoming inaugural California-Pacific Triennial, curated by Dan Cameron, opening June 30 at the Orange County Museum of Art. In Mexico and the Southwestern United States, the carpa (Spanish for "tent") theater flourished during the 1920s and '30s. The material presented in the carpas was highly satirical and frequently political in nature, and brought the popular concerns and spirit ignored by official society into performance, improvising comic routines on such topics as the high cost of living, political scandals, and treacherous political leaders. Hugo Crosthwaite (Mexico, born 1971) was born in Tijuana and spent his formative years in Rosarito. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1997 with a BA in Applied Arts. Crosthwaite's works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Miami Art Museum, FL; Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; and San Diego Museum of Art, CA. Recent exhibitions include Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection (2012, featuring his epic mural "Death March", measuring 10 by 25 feet), at the Chicago Cultural Center; The New World, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; The Very Large Array, works from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and Behold, America!, San Diego Museum of Art. Other exhibitions include Tjuanerias (2012) at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Brutal Beauty: Drawings by Hugo Crosthwaite, a solo (2010) at the San Diego Museum of Art; TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; El Grito/The Cry for Freedom, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK; Strange New World: Art & Design from Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2005), CA; VII Bienal Monterrey 2005, Mexico; XII Bienal Rufino Tamayo 2005, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. For further information, please call 310-838-6000 or email [email protected]. LUIS DE JESUS Los Angeles 2635 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 T: +1 310 838 6000 E: gallery @ luisdejesus.com |
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