curatorial projects |
“After study of deflection investigate
joints” A group exhibition exploring the notion of fragmentation and dislocation. Artists include: J. Michael Deane, Dakota De Hinde, Nina Hubbs-Zurier, Nick Kamuda, Naomi Miller, Maria Park, Mary Anna Pomonis (collaborating with Doug Harvey and Sevan Tahmasian ), Dan Talmon and Dan Tierney. |
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“gesture” A multi-media exhibition of works that use gestures as a means of communication. The use of gesture varies, ranging from video artist Mary George signing and dancing to Jimi Hendrix songs to Howard Fried’s seemingly empty panel, which on closer examination reveals the traces of pieces of paper ripped from its surface. Artists include: Nathan Suter, Dorit Cypis, Michael Jouquin Grey, Mary George, Aaron Noble, Nina Zurier, Howard Fried, Sam Tachalian, Kara Maria and Mark Van Proyen. |
"A Box" An exhibition of paintings and sculpture inspired by a poem by Gertrude Stein, entitled, "A Box": “Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same questions, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analyzed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to have a green point not to red but to point again” Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons. Artists include: Emily Cheng, Michael Byron, Cheonae Kim, Linda Besemer, Linda Day, Sally Elesby, Dana Duff, and Shirley Tse. Review: Howell, George, " A Box," ARTPAPERS, June, 1997. |
"an accumulation of simple solids" An exhibition of painting and sculpture based on quirky perversions of the grid. Artists include: Christian Haub, Catherine Brennan, Brice Marden, L.C. Armstrong, Carter Potter, Wallace Berman, and Sabina Ott. |
"Flow" This exhibition investigates fluidity, both material and spacial. Artists include: Lillian Ball, Uta Barth, Linda Besemer, Jessica Bronson, Dana Duff, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Julian Goldwhite, Shirley Tse, and Doug Hammet. |
"Transtexualism" An exhibition of installation, video, sculpture, painting, and photography that blurs boundaries between categories and challenges the rhetorical impulse. The works focus on the use of language and its marriage with material that alters the original text, creating an alternative territory that prioritizes the "texture" of the object. Artists include: Wendy Adest, Michael Anderson, Uta Barth, Stephen Berens, Ellen Burrell, Elizabeth Bryant, Emily Cheng, Dagmar Demming, Sally Elesby, Fred Fehlau, Vernon Fisher, Christopher French, Gabrielle Jennings, Susan Leopold, Daniel Marlos, Laura Paddock, Theresa Pendlebury, Maria Porges, Steve Roden, Nicolas Rule, Buzz Spector, Laura Stein, and Pae White. Review: Pagel, David, "Transtexualism: Works to Read, See, Feel," Los Angeles Times, August 25, 1994; page F12. |
"Tom Tiddler’s Ground:
Tenancy at Will" An exhibition featuring the work of current graduate students at Art Center College of Design and California State University at Los Angeles, within the context of a shopping mall. This exhibition explores the issues of home and territory--physical and psychological. Primarily installation art, the work engages in a dialogue between the traditional notions of habitat and the personal interpretation of private and social space. The exhibition comments on the nature of domestic space. Artists include: Jose-Alvaro Perdices, Andrea Kabwasa, Brian Snapp, Carol Caley, Daniel Marlos, Elizabeth Saveri, Gilbert Mercado, Joan Harrison, Morey ffrench, Phoebe Sarason, Susan Lutz, T.J. Wilcox, and Wendy Moore. |
"Emblazoned Ciphers of the Visible" An exhibition of painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography. Catalog essay by Michael Anderson. Catalog funded by Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, and California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. The title for this exhibition is from an essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This exhibition consists of works that investigate aspects of light and reflection, some metaphorically, some literally, some phenomenologically, pointing to a politics of space--a pluralism of vision and a criticality of a dominant single point of view. Artists include: Fred Fehlau, Vincent Shine, Michael Norton, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Diana Thater, Claudia Matzko, Karen Keehne, Marie Lafia, Linda Hudson, and Maria De Luca. Review: Pagel, David, "Sight, Insight, Interplay in 'Emblazoned Ciphers'," Los Angeles Times, October 9,1994; page F8. |
"A Carafe That is a Blind Glass" An exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Catalog produced and funded by Art Center College of Design and Occidental College. Catalog essay by Amelia Jones. An exhibition based on the idea of fluidity as a dissipation of the boundaries between things. The concept of flow creates critical space that denies the discourse of polarity that is at the core of Western thought. The title of this show is the opening poem from Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons." The use of Stein's poetry reiterates a state of "between-ness." The artists in this exhibition all articulate a criticism of the static through the use of a wide variety of mediums. Artists include: Eve Achheim, Uta Barth, Linda Besemer, Linda Burnham, Maria De Luca, Dana Duff, Nancy Evans, Caren Furbayre, Vanessa Haney, and Jennifer Steinkamp. Reviews: Pagel, David, "Smart and Sensuous," Los Angeles Times, February, 1993. Anderson, Michael, "A Carafe that is a Blind Glass," Art Issues, May/June, 1993. |